Things we are discovering with this pandemic
 

Thinking back over the past 4-5 weeks and what we are learning.....

- How sit down restaurants are figuring out how to manage curbside and delivery. First week or two it was not pretty. Lots of errors and website snaffus. Now they seem to have gotten their processes figured out and moving on to this new era. Other restaurants that have easily adapted to the new paradigm, like Oakwood and pizza places, which were more predisposed to this adaptation. Good job guys.

- Small thing, but never tried a pot pie from the freezer section. Publix had a BOGO on Marie Callendar pot pies. Darn they are pretty good. Never would have tried that option but for the virus.

- Going into a liquor store with a bandanna and not being figured to be a bandit.

- Just how super important our health care workers really are. They have been much underappreciated in the past.

- The creativity of businesses as they figure out ways to adapt. Buy a car from home. Schedule your car service with home pickup, delivery, and sanitizing as well.

- What captures what you are seeing?

nice post..

off the top of my head what am I seeing going forward...

well those touch pads at the fast food restaurants and at the airline check in counters are going to be a thing of the past pretty soon

grocery stores will never give up the 'one way aisles' now that they have us doing it

banks will reinstall a glass barrier between you and the teller

I'll continue to use a plastic grocery bag over my hand whenever I pump gas at a gasoline station

handshake deals are gone forever...especially spitting in your mitt and shaking

line dancing will become more the norm vs. actually holding on to your partner while dancing

a lot of venues will follow suit with the air lines and will not sell the open seat between ticket orders

the social distancing spacing at checkout counters will continue

people will continue to wear masks....especially while traveling

hopefully we don't need two pictures on pass ports and driving licenses (one with and one w/o a face mask)

I watched TV yesterday afternoon with my wife.

She seems nice.

This one made me smile.👍

The number of folks who do not feel ANY guidelines pertain to them.
They don't wear masks in public places.
They ignore the one way direction in stores.
The do not keep their social distance even where it is marked on the floor.

Thankfully they are in the minority, however with such obvious visible guides they are all the more obvious!!!

I've learned how important the restaurant business is to the economy.

I've learned about how people who don't think everyone deserves a living wage, are actually now deeming a lot of those same people..."essential" :ohdear:

That we should have built a private 25 yard lap swimming pool, 43 days and counting without swimming a lap is totally unacceptable.

Truck drivers are the unsung heroes of the pandemic .

Besides obviously health care workers, add bus drivers, transit train operators, railroad/grocery/convenience store employees...and so many more to that list. :thumbup:

Swimming pool
 

We have a pool and it has kept our sanity while staying at home.

Virus
 

Amazed by peoples behavior, both positive and negative.

Virus
 

Thanks to all nurses, fire dept, police dept, postal workers, cashiers etc

Thank you for your post. I recently retired from being an over the road truck driver. I drove in every state in every condition for 9 years. Under normal conditions it is a very under-appreciated occupation. Most everybody looks down on these workers. This includes 99% of automobile drivers that cut off semi trucks and this includes most shippers and receivers. Truck drivers are regularly disrespected by the companies they work for and by the companies that contract their services. Not to mention the hours they work, the lack of benefits and the wages they earn. Plus a normal work week was over 60 hours with no overtime, many driving jobs are non-union.

I know from my over the road driving career of 750,000 miles that there are very many rogue truck drivers. Those truck drivers that do not respect those driving in cars by getting right up on cars bumpers to intimidate them. I observed that every say that I drove.

One of the best days I ever experienced on the road was one afternoon right before Christmas, a van pulled into the truck stop where I parked for the night, A person got out and approached my truck with a smile on his face and a lunch bag filled with Christmas cookies and a Christmas and thank you card. That was so thoughtful, they went to every truck that had a driver they could see.

Learned how uninformative this site really is

Discovered another use for the storage cabinet under our range,,,,

My friend hates to cook; termed it her "resale kitchen.":icon_wink:

I am impressed with the responsiveness of a major portion of villages residents when there is even a hint of a possible shortage.
TP.....wiped out (:icon_wink:)
Gasoline prior to hurricane.
Current fear factor, pending meat shortage.

It does not take long for the majority of 150,000 folks to create a state of panic like buying.....real or threatened.

The other impression? How quickly the need to be prepared goes away.....until the next scare.

How much wood could a Woodchuck chuck if a Woodchuck could chuck wood?

How much meat could a freezer hold if a freezer could freeze meat?

Question
 

Have all the tent cities in the streets of LA and SF been wiped out by this? Have not seen anything about them lately on TV or heard what percentage of California's cases have come from these. My guess is that they are definitely not practicing social distancing.

This is a good point, because we are coming up on hurricane season. A reasonable stash of essentials kept throughout the year is a good idea.


One thing that "impressed" me about the last hurricane we had was that people flocked to gas stations in TV and created lines down the street, when two miles away off campus were nearly empty gas stations.


We found tp and paper towels at Big Lots on 14th St. in Leesburg when Winn Dixie and Publix in the 466A area were bare for weeks. Twenty-minute drive. And the place was nearly empty, plus they had sneeze guards up before anywhere else.


We may live in a bubble, but we should realize we can burst out of it if need be.