Off-Topic Forum

So how are we adjusting to the change in times? I'm adjusting pretty well actually. It helps that I really love being at home anyway. I normally work at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena and at the Hollywood Bowl. Needless to say, both of my jobs are kaput for the foreseeable future. So since my last day of work (March 10), I've been staying home and only going out for the occasional shopping trip for essentials. Most of my time is spent on my cards or TCDB while listening to ROQ of the 80's on radio.com. Of course I do spend some time catching up on the latest on the outbreak and contemplating how I can be part of the solution without catching this bug myself. Perhaps this will help:

All that glitters is not gold. 

Gotta get a LIKE button!! =D

You said it, lol. Just the other day I had to point out to the gf that she needed to sanitize her hands after touching the post office door.

And I totally agree that we gotta get a LIKE button.

.....and while we are at it

WE NEED 1 MORE TEAM TO HAVE A 10 TEAM LEAGUE !!!!!!!!!!!!

Never knew you were a CFL fan!! I agree bring us the Schooners!!!!!!!!! Oh wait you ARE talking CFL right?!

Just returned home from a(nother) week at our youngest daughters in Nova Scotia helping out with a few home repairs,etc. Before leaving earlier today received a phone call from the home front that the wife has just returned from a "follow-up" doctor's appointment concerning a "nagging cough", an event nearly experienced every year around this time, whereupon the doctor's recommendation this time 'round was a nasal swap and you guessed it, due to "an abundance of caution" and a sign of the times, a two week isolation pending the results of the swab. (In all likely hood a 99.99% negative test outcome). Meanwhile a similar fate was awaiting my arrival earlier this afternoon with the possibility of a two week hiatus spent in isolation. We should receive word in 24-48 hours with an update. Hopefully trading can resume in the short term even as the number of members perhaps shuttering that activity for now. We are certainly not going to starve and we do have an ample supply of TP as may be needed in the interim. Together we will get through this but it may require sacrifices in the immediate future to limit the scope of difficulty that is sure to follow with less of an effort.

Hopefully the symptoms don't get worse. Wishing you and your family the best...

The main difference around my household right now is my son works from home now and I am laid off for the present time. My main concern is my wife works in an airport and most every case coming into the state comes through the airport.

I do have two trades I need to get to and I don't see much change coming in my trading.

Best of luck to everyone during this time.

Excellent points V3! I also sneeze or cough into my elbow and have been doing that for 20 years now. The "cover your face" commercials back then made no sense to me to cough into my hands. You will just spread your germs to the next several things you touch. Even if they aren't viral germs/bacteria, you are still spreading something that not everyone's body can handle. I don't get the flu shot, but that's b/c I know my body will tell me if I have it and I'll know to stay away from people. I've had the flu twice in my nearly 42 years and the last time was in 2008. The first time was 1989 or 1990. That's an especially good record since I've worked in a medical facility since 2006!

I am a very defensive driver. I watch what other vehicles are doing even more than I watch what I am doing. I also am constantly looking to the sides of the road for animals. You learn to do that when you have mostly lived out in rural areas. I have run over a few small animals while driving, but there was absolutely nothing else I could do to avoid them in all of those cases. I have had a few close calls with deer but never actually hit one. I've only had 2 wrecks and the 1st was b/c I was young (16) and ignorant. The second one (at 18) was b/c someone was going 20mph over the speed limit and I didn't realize it until I had already committed to turning onto that road. No one was hurt in that wreck. I broke my ankle in the first wreck when I was T-boned by a tree after losing control of my car. Luckily, I hit the tree on the passenger side and no one else was with me. If anyone else had been in the car, they would've been killed. If I had hit the tree at any other angle, I'd have been killed. I have pictures of the car that prove that fact. That wreck gave me a whole new respect for driving and made me a much better driver. Both of my siblings have each had more car wrecks than I have and I'm the oldest. My mother has too, but she's a mail carrier and she also delivered newspapers when I was little.

NOT TO V3, BUT TO THE THREAD ITSELF:

The main thing I take issue with about trying to compare vehicle-related deaths to deaths from a virus outbreak is that nearly EVERYONE on the planet is going to be in a vehicle at some point every day or at least once a week. Over 6 billion people are in cars, trucks, buses, vans, trains, etc. on a daily basis. Any wrecks can take a life or several of them at any time. Even precaution or defensive strategy can't keep that from happening. But people CAN protect themselves from viruses when they know something exists and is spreading fast!