Are you preparing for the second Covid wave and the inevitable shutdown attempt to control it?

Yup. Just got a haircut. Been stocking up on paper goods and frozen food. We’re all home anyway, so that’s fine.

Massachusetts just instituted a 10PM to 5AM shutdown to limit nighttime shenanigans (not that we go out past ten usually).

My oil tank is at half. May get that filled too.

Thanks for the reminder about he oil tank. I have two 275 gallon tanks. One is ful. The other is down about half. I’ll fix that.

Maybe it’s wishful hoping on my part, but I’m depending on the general population to be better prepared now that we have a better idea of what to expect!!! With my disability, I have a very difficult time cooking for myself. Last time, my town didn’t close the restaurants down completely. We couldn’t go inside to sit down to eat, but all the restaurants had drive thru available for food to be picked up. Although it was inconvenient to do the pickup, it was better than going hungry!!! I do now keep a few cans of various food in my cabinets & a loaf of bread available for a day it might be needed. I also have a few frozen dinners for the “just in case” days. I discovered last time that a bag of popcorn tasted pretty good & kept me from being hungry, so I’m keeping a supply pf microwave popcorn on my shelf.

I haven’t stopped wearing my mask yet & I’m hopeful that with the change in administrations that even the right will be encouraged to wear a mask when out in public. I’m thinking that maybe a full lock down won’t be necessary this time IF the general population will act like ADULTS & not act like 2 year olds!!!

I do my own hair & I have my hair cut pretty short so I don’t need a haircut but about once every 2–3 months. I just had it cut this week, so I should be good to go until January or February. IF it’s so bad that my plan doesn’t work, I think that what my hair looks like will be the least of my problem!!!

I’m going to continue doing home repairs and upgrades that I’ve been putting off. Also I’m working on doing an upgrade on one of my Hobie Cat sailboats.

I’m replacing all the ceiling fluorescent tube light fixtures with LED light fixtures. Love those veritable LED lights. Cheaper to operate too.

So far this year I remodeled one bathroom (new shower, new toilet, floor tile, paint, lighting, towel racks). Put in new carpet in the bedroom and walk-in closet. Took several loads of old clothes and stuff to the Goodwill. Fun stuff!

Yes, we increased cash at hand, keeping gas filled up, paid off small debt, getting my dog to vet today, and generally just continual prepping.

We have been in the second shutdown for 2 weeks now.

All of the things the above have said, but I’m thinking about calling my financial advisor to see if I should consider retiring early. Going into a hospital daily is starting to stress me out, though I am not around patients.

NY, too, here, right next to CT. I have enough toilet paper to last till the Spring 2021. When we had the first shutdown, in mid-March, I went to Costco and bought a 25 lb bag of rice for $10 (which is why I love Costco). I had to spend $15 on a plastic pet food container to store the rice, which is ironic to spend more on the container than on the food. I also bought and have continued to buy pasta, meat (which is in the freezer) and I have some a bunch of cans. I have a lot of coffee and I bought powdered milk in the Spring, so if I get desperate I have that. In my town, they had a contactless food distribution center where you drive up and they put bags of food in your car. They had good food, including meat, milk, yogurt, sports drinks, and fresh produce. Plus they gave out cloth masks which were donated by some company.

I also went to Costco throughout the shutdown in the Spring. I have Costco and Sam’s Club memberships which are both invaluable because they sell everything, not just food, and they remained open throughout the shutdown because they sell food.

My hair colorist just got the Covid a few weeks ago. My daughter had an appointment for a hair cut and I had to find a new person to do it because the colorist was going to be the one to cut her hair.

The CT city near me, Danbury, has had schools on remote for this school year so far. My daughter’s school had a few weeks of total remote due to a positive case in the building. Other towns in our County are on total remote due to high virus cases.

What concerns me is that now, with so many people believing this is bullshit and a Democratic conspiracy, they might not properly quarantine and stay home, and it will all be for naught.

I just booked a haircut. Haven’t had one since about this time last year.

I’m expecting to miss some indoor dining, and hoping independent restaurants cope ok.

This question just inspired me to go clean out my freezer lol. I bought a big pack of hamburger meat last night at Costco and I have to portion it out and freeze it. Now my freezer is organized and clean!

Nope nothing different. We have been living the same as the original shutdown.

I am always in a state of there is covid around me.

I did go to the supermarket when the Trump rally happened here to avoid going for a good ten days. I still did a curbside pick-up at my local Walmart about a week later, but avoided going in to any store.

I don’t feel like anything is much different where I live than it has been all along. Florida is always at high risk; everyone comes here. The risk is about to ramp up with the winter season. People have started coming down for their 6 month stays.

I would hope people don’t go crazy hoarding TP again. A little extra fine, but don’t most of us have some extra? I just think it’s so mean to wipe out the supermarkets when we have people working full time, taking risks, and then they go to the supermarket and can’t buy basics. Or, people who are poor who can’t stock up, and when they really need a paper product they can’t find any.

I bought a roll of paper towel today. It was getting scarce a month ago when I bought my last roll. I use about three a year. I’m set until spring.

I don’t have the same fear of contaminated surfaces and products I had in April. I was disinfecting the groceries as I put them away.

I am trying to keep a 10 foot distance when in public. I met friends twice in September, in gatherings of about twenty. I won’t be doing that soon. Thanksgiving is off.

Yes. My mother’s about to end her 10-year battle with Alzheimer’s disease, and I know that any funeral or memorial service will be out of the question. Mom’s final care and burial need to be private.

As I say “goodbye” to my best friend and the love of my life, it would be nice to have the physical presence and support of friends and family members. But, I refuse to organize a superspreader event.

@Love_my_doggie I’m so sorry. If you have a service, the place that does the service might do Facebook live or zoom. The husband of a friend of mine died a few months ago and we were all able to watch it from around the country.

@Love_my_doggie My sympathies. It is so hard working with illness and death while hampered by distance. My demented (literally) mother just recovered from covid. She’s in physical therapy rehab and not doing great. I think she’s about to give up. We can’t visit and she doesn’t pick up the phone.

Before the covid, she was in a good routine, living in memory care. I compared it to being on a cruise, where she lived with a small group of people and the staff kept everyone active and entertained.

We are extremely fortunate that Mom and Dad set themselves up financially, so her care is affordable. But it’s going to be weird and awkward if she dies during the pandemic when we can’t commiserate with friends and family.

Vietnam has a high chance of entering another wave of Covid, given that we are allowing foreigners to do business and no one is wearing masks.

I won’t be surprised if it happens again, and I’m fully prepared for that. I’ve been through two waves of Covid and I’m not dead yet, so I think I can do it another time.

@Love_my_doggie I am so very sorry. I went through the same thing a couple of years ago. I cannot imagine how it would be to add this Covid nightmare on top of it. My heart goes out to you.