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    Lucky Bum AlanS's Avatar
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    Been sent home with a union contract that gives me full pay and benefits for the foreseeable future. So we found a beautiful home (killer deal) on the coast for a month. It’s only an hour or two from home. Sweet, hope all are well!

    Counting boats and building puzzles with my favorite girl!

    By the way the mortality rate associated with this is 1% or less. Hope it passes soon but I love the fresher air slower pace and extra space.
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    Steve, Thanks for checking in!

    Doing well here. Kids are e-learning from home including 2 college students. Wife is teaching her classes online.
    I am still going in to work, although had to take a 25% temporary pay reduction - business is way down. Working even more though as half of the company was furloughed so I am taking up some additional duties; everything from housekeeping (we cancelled cleaning services) to regulatory and executive. Of those of us that remain, half are working from home. I am able to stay isolated at work as we are spread out in the building and my office is isolated away from everyone else anyway. Can't say I don't mind the very easy commute now without any traffic.
    Making very few trips out of the home; about 1 brief grocery store trip a week and nothing else besides work for the last 3 weeks.

    Trying to keep my other kids and 1 year old granddaughter away, but they have popped in once or twice briefly. I made them all wash their hands upon arrival and departure. My wife thinks I am now a clean-freak; wiping & sanitizing doorknobs, light switches, handles-- all the high touch areas, several times a day; even though nobody in my house has gone out at all except the wife once or twice to the store. Doing the same in my car.
    Like Steve, I am trying to get outside when I can for a walk or working in the yard as weather permits.

    Hoping everyone else is safe. I will do my part to continue to contribute to the cause. I am not concerned for myself or direct family members of the illness, but I do not want to put myself, family, or co-workers into a mandatory quarantine situation (as if they aren't already by virtue.)

    Like @Brimy , I keep wondering how much of this is blown out of proportion and sensationalized.
    Can't wait to get past this shit! It is going to be a long recovery.

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    Glad to hear all you Bums are doing well! We're doing well on our parts. My wife and I are both blessed that we have the ability to work from home. My son and daughter are e-learning from home. Hopefully this will end soon! Prays and thoughts are with you all!! Be safe!

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    We're doing our part to stay healthy by staying active. I'm spending most of my time off in the hotel with Heather and the kids in order to qualify us for housing assistance. We get out quite a bit with my Ruck'N'Run monthly challenges. Hope y'all are doing well!

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    As many of you know, I have a plethora of major health issues, so I guess I should be more concerned, but in all honesty I’m not. I stay at home 24/7 anyhow with Dr. visits being the exception. I am very very Leary of how this has turned into almost an event, with the news pouring fuel on the fire for no reason.

    In no way am I saying don’t be cautious till this is over, I just don’t believe everything told to me without research of my own.

    That said, me and my wife have a brand new 4K 65 inch and a new 4K entertainment system, so we are enjoying some HDR movies and bingeing some shows we have been wanting to watch.

    Love you guys!

    Edit:
    Forgot to mention our 3 week shelter in place goes into effect in 30 min. But for the most part that’s what most of us here have been doing already, so not much change.

    My idea of shelter in place
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    Wife and I are fine. Both our jobs are considered essential but at least she can work from home. Friday at work we had no more than a dozen people at work and 5 of those were on my floor. Doing my best with social distancing.

    We have less than 50 cases in our county but state wide we have 6766. I fear too many are taking this lightly.
    So far we have 311544 cases in the us with 8488 dead(more than 1%) and we are weeks away from our peak. White house's best estimates say at least another 92k will die.

    Please be safe out there!

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    South West Ohio is in pretty good shape. Wife and I stocked up on items as soon as we heard the news. Had an idea this would
    take off like a runaway train. Never used my Vacuum sealer like I have in the last 2 weeks. The weather has been fairly good
    so I've been in the yard most of the time. It's not looked this good in a long time.

    Started most off my garden seeds so ahead of the game there. Seems the alcohol sales in Ohio are up like 55%. State has
    restricted store sales hours and limited number of patrons allowed at 1 time. Wonder how many babies will be born next Jan/Feb.

    I really think we are being told about 10% of the truth on this. Can't even watch the news or read a paper because it's all
    negative and gets depressing actually. There are a lot of good things going on out there but they don't get noticed, sad because
    we could use some feel good news.

    Hope everyone remains safe and we are all still here when this is behind us.
    Couple of things I've learned. I like good Bourbon and hate wet toilet paper.

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    Wife and I are doing well. Also the kids are virus free. I have been working from home for the lat 3 weeks. Elsie is a teacher and has been home the last two weeks. Since my office is in Manhattan I am glad to be working from home. We are practicing social distancing and hope this helps with getting trough this virus and back to normal life.

    Spending my time splitting and stacking wood for next winter. Smoking more cigars and drinking more bourbon by the fire than usual but that is ok by me. Don't watch the news as I too feel a lot of it is overplayed.

    Glad to see you are all doing well so please stay that way.

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    Lucky Bum AlanS's Avatar
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    98.54% is the current number for survival for the USA
    Remember our wonderful media and snowflakes are the driving force between this and us. The numbers are skewed and everybody who passes now is counted as a victim of this crap regardless of heart disease, lung disease, diabetes. All the NBA players that had it haven’t reported any deaths or illness related problems. Smh
    Last edited by AlanS; 04-05-2020 at 09:35 AM.
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