Getting used to new habits for Coronavirus....

[Miss B]

Thanks for the link from me too Dana, as I also had issues with getting there from Ken's original link.

That's quite an informative report, but I found the most interesting part nearer the end of the report, and I'm now glad I've been taking a Statin for years, as the report stated:

"In another paper that looked at nearly 9,000 people with Covid-19, Mehra showed that the use of statins and ACE inhibitors were linked to higher rates of survival."

 

[Hornet3d]

Although there has been some relaxation in the restrictions in the UK very little seems to have changed. There seem to be two extremes, those who are continuing much as before and staying in and those that seem to think that, for them at least, that all restrictions have been lifted. In addition many of the large cities are the scene of massive demonstrations and clearly there is no social distancing. While I can understand the anger it comes in the same week that official reports have noted that the core of the people who are demonstrating are actually from sections of the popullation more vulnerable to the virus. Heaven knows where this will end but the signs are not good.

Back in my neck of the woods life continues much as before and I try find distraction in the projects I have in hand. The garage revamp continues with the partitions now in place so that the garage is split in a one third / two thirds configuration. It goes without saying that the larger section has to be the play area with the smaller one providing a small tool storage / work area. As yet I cannot make full use of the storage area as a large chunk is compromised by the up and over door but the good news is that the new roller door should be installed this coming Thursday so that will be a major change. I did try using some self adhesive cork tiles for the walls but I found they were also self ejecting and they seem intent on being floor rather than wall tiles so I have had to resort to applying a wall adhesive which is a lot more messy but they do stay in place. I have yet to fit the ceiling panels but as the whole area is covered by just 20 tiles so it should be easily done in a day. Still on track for the whole thing to be completed and all the waste cleared and sorted by the end of June.

 

[McGyver]

I figured I’d post this here in case anyone is interested or hasn’t come across this already...
Here’s what WHO says your mask should have to prevent COVID-19 spread
It’s from the WHO, they’ve updated some recommendations for face masks.
Isn’t the WHO great... 56 years of Rock&Roll and great respiratory protection advice that’s alway there when you need it.

 

[RAMWolff]

Hadn't seen this thread yet.

One of the many blessings of being an introvert is that this has actually been beneficial to me in many ways. For my real job I'm thinking of working from home, I may and will loose allot of my clients but at the same time coming up with $900.00 a month to rent a station at a salon will probably even me out pretty much. Had a pretty good month last month working from my little "kitchen salon" and this month will be OK. More clients are emailing me and wanting to come here. So that may be my new path. The new path will allow me to get allot more done with 3D since I've jumped over to Poser to support Dusk and L'Homme (some brilliant coder needs to come up with a way to move products and skins between the two figures (same for Dawn and La'Femme)). This new set up allows me to save on bus fare, long rides too and from and just work on crafting my skills in Poser without interruption. I may even, eventually, want to offer to moderate a forum or something! I used to do that for other forums so it's not a skill I would be new at.

The only negatives for me is that I do miss going to dinner with friends or meeting up for coffee and Philz Cafe' in Redwood City where I live.

Oh and before anyone says but your health! I've been living with HIV for most of my life now, I know how to be careful without going overboard or doing too little to protect myself. I have alcohol in a spray bottle, masks galore now, touchless soap dispensers, paper towels and seat covers in the bathroom. I recently got AC installed in the kitchen so I can keep that room cool when working on the hotter than hell days. I have a proper "floating station" on it's way to me and I'll bring up my proper hairdressing chair (I call it the couch) when I get that new station in place so I'll have room to move it around. My current station is being moved to another area of the kitchen so it won't be useless.

So for me, new path, new life to slide into and hopefully make enough to keep afloat! LOL

Stay safe folks. Wear your masks in crowds or shopping and bring a small spray bottle of alcohol to spray down shopping cart handles and what not.

HUGS

 

[Miss B]

Stay safe folks. Wear your masks in crowds or shopping and bring a small spray bottle of alcohol to spray down shopping cart handles and what not.

I always wear vinyl gloves when I'm out, so don't worry so much about the carts in the supermarket and other stores, and I keep the handle of my shopping cart clean, which I only take with me when doing a large shopping once a week, though I'm wearing the gloves then as well.

 

[eclark1894]

Actually, I can't really wear the mask all the time as I do breathe a little heavier. The CDC suggests on their webpabe that anyone with respiratory problems refrain from wearing masks. I tend to work in seclusion anyway, as I'm in a store cooler all day. So wearing a mask in a room where I'm pretty much the only occupant would just be stupid. I do however wear nitrile gloves to stock the shelves.

 

[RAMWolff]

One of the reasons I refrain from wearing gloves unless I'm coloring a clients hair is that it's wasteful. A spray bottle with alcohol is best for my needs. Also if your washing your hands when your done with unloading groceries and stocking shelves you will be OK.

There is a YouTube video that talks about wearing masks in public. Some folks, I've seen, are riding their bikes with one on! WHY? That's overboard. The virus doesn't survive but seconds in the open air. Drafts, heat, air in general with degrade the virus in no time, even walking your body has like a 6" air encapsulation that you, of course, do not see so it pushes things like molecules out, away to go around the body.

Another reason for not wearing gloves. The litter bugs out there have found something new to pollute the earth with which pisses me off to no end!

 

[Satira Capriccio]

For many of us introverts, especially, us introvert hermits, being able to telecommute five days a week, and to not have to go out in public has been not only amazing, but such a relief! Sadly, in a few weeks, we will be required to begin working in the office one day a week. WHY?!? We keep asking. Just what is it that we can do in the office that we cannot do telecommuting? (Not a thing)

Unless we work in a private office (only the managers are in private offices, the rest of us are in short walled, two sided cubicles), we will be required to wear a mask the whole time we are in the office. The exception is when we are eating in the cafe.

 

[Hornet3d]

Hadn't seen this thread yet.

One of the many blessings of being an introvert is that this has actually been beneficial to me in many ways. For my real job I'm thinking of working from home, I may and will loose allot of my clients but at the same time coming up with $900.00 a month to rent a station at a salon will probably even me out pretty much. Had a pretty good month last month working from my little "kitchen salon" and this month will be OK. More clients are emailing me and wanting to come here. So that may be my new path. The new path will allow me to get allot more done with 3D since I've jumped over to Poser to support Dusk and L'Homme (some brilliant coder needs to come up with a way to move products and skins between the two figures (same for Dawn and La'Femme)). This new set up allows me to save on bus fare, long rides too and from and just work on crafting my skills in Poser without interruption. I may even, eventually, want to offer to moderate a forum or something! I used to do that for other forums so it's not a skill I would be new at.

The only negatives for me is that I do miss going to dinner with friends or meeting up for coffee and Philz Cafe' in Redwood City where I live.

Oh and before anyone says but your health! I've been living with HIV for most of my life now, I know how to be careful without going overboard or doing too little to protect myself. I have alcohol in a spray bottle, masks galore now, touchless soap dispensers, paper towels and seat covers in the bathroom. I recently got AC installed in the kitchen so I can keep that room cool when working on the hotter than hell days. I have a proper "floating station" on it's way to me and I'll bring up my proper hairdressing chair (I call it the couch) when I get that new station in place so I'll have room to move it around. My current station is being moved to another area of the kitchen so it won't be useless.

So for me, new path, new life to slide into and hopefully make enough to keep afloat! LOL

Stay safe folks. Wear your masks in crowds or shopping and bring a small spray bottle of alcohol to spray down shopping cart handles and what not.

HUGS

There can't be many pluses of living with HIV but I guess in this case you are well ahead of most of us in how to cope on a daily basis without going overboard.

I hope the new plan works for you, I found commuting very stressful so cutting that by working from home has to be the way to go if you can make it work. One of the big surprises I had when I retired was finding out just how much it cost me when working, what with extra coffees and snacks, birthday and leaving collections and the like, they all soon add up.

 

[Hornet3d]

One of the reasons I refrain from wearing gloves unless I'm coloring a clients hair is that it's wasteful. A spray bottle with alcohol is best for my needs. Also if your washing your hands when your done with unloading groceries and stocking shelves you will be OK.

There is a YouTube video that talks about wearing masks in public. Some folks, I've seen, are riding their bikes with one on! WHY? That's overboard. The virus doesn't survive but seconds in the open air. Drafts, heat, air in general with degrade the virus in no time, even walking your body has like a 6" air encapsulation that you, of course, do not see so it pushes things like molecules out, away to go around the body.

Another reason for not wearing gloves. The litter bugs out there have found something new to pollute the earth with which pisses me off to no end!

Someone asked in one of the many virus forums here in the UK if people preparing food should wear gloves I expected the answer to be yes but was surprised to find the advice was not so clear cut. If preparing food in a commercial setting and thus moving from one meal/snack to another the advice was it was far better to constantly wash hands thoroughly than use gloves, which sort of makes sense when you stop and think about it.

 

[Hornet3d]

For many of us introverts, especially, us introvert hermits, being able to telecommute five days a week, and to not have to go out in public has been not only amazing, but such a relief! Sadly, in a few weeks, we will be required to begin working in the office one day a week. WHY?!? We keep asking. Just what is it that we can do in the office that we cannot do telecommuting? (Not a thing)

Unless we work in a private office (only the managers are in private offices, the rest of us are in short walled, two sided cubicles), we will be required to wear a mask the whole time we are in the office. The exception is when we are eating in the cafe.

I have never had a large circle of friends, even in my school days I was a bit of a lone wolf and little has changed as I have grown older. Just as with my wife, who is not only my wife but best friend and soulmate, those friends that I do have tend to be very special. When I retired a few years ago I found I did not miss the socialising that was part of the normal working day. Now I find the the lockdown has pushed me into further isolation and I have to say I have taken to it with ease. Not for me the boredom or the mental stress that everyone is apparently suffering according to the UK media.

The difficulty I find I have, on the rear occasion I am required to, is that, if the work is close up, it steams up my reading glasses as I breathe.

 

[Miss B]

Oh yes, now that summer weather has been peeking it's ugly head in now and then, I have to take off my sunglasses and wipe them clean, or I can't see a thing, especially when I'm walking somewhere.

 

[RAMWolff]

Someone asked in one of the many virus forums here in the UK if people preparing food should wear gloves I expected the answer to be yes but was surprised to find the advice was not so clear cut. If preparing food in a commercial setting and thus moving from one meal/snack to another the advice was it was far better to constantly wash hands thoroughly than use gloves, which sort of makes sense when you stop and think about it.

Regardless of the times one should ALWAYS wear gloves when working with food preparation! ALWAYS!

 

[Hornet3d]

Regardless of the times one should ALWAYS wear gloves when working with food preparation! ALWAYS!

I understood that to be the case so the answer the so say expert gave surprised me. Having been given a bad case of Campylobacter many years ago, and I am still suffering the consequences twenty or more years on, I am very particular about where I eat and how food is prepared.

 

[Rae134]

problem I see with people wearing gloves prepping food, is that they touch everything and think that's ok where as people who don't tend to wash their hands a lot more (particularly between using the till then back to food, cant tell you how many times I've seen people wearing gloves touching money then back to food which is a bit NO NO NO!)

 

[Hornet3d]

I am having better luck with my garage project than my computer and Poser, at least this week I have been. Ceiling is now up, new garage door fitted so there is a little bit more room yet it is also more cosy as the wind does not rip around the sides of the door. Still a lot to do but it is coming together and I am still on track to finish before the end of June as long as all the goodies arrive in time.

 

[RAMWolff]

I understood that to be the case so the answer the so say expert gave surprised me. Having been given a bad case of Campylobacter many years ago, and I am still suffering the consequences twenty or more years on, I am very particular about where I eat and how food is prepared.

I hear you. I ate at a Chinese high end place years and years ago. I got something from there food, worse case of poisoning I've ever had to date, lasted like 10 days, it was horrible. They used to be so nice there, so clean. Then they expanded when another place went out beside their place so they knocked down the wall and did that and hired a bunch of uncaring folks to work the larger establishment. Now I walk by that place and have mean thoughts about my experience. NEVER been so sick in my life! You just know it was from not handling the meat correctly and didn't observe safety standards! My friend that loved that place eventually gave up getting food to go. The quality just got horrible. See, being greedy (larger space) didn't work out very well for US. Not sure and don't care if it's worked for them.

 

[Pendraia]

Well I've been tested negative for Covid twice now...at least now they have me on antibiotics. I have taken 6 months unpaid leave from work as the student aren't social distancing here and we have a had a few schools closed already for cleaning since they went back. So I'm happy with my decision. I will probably retire for good at the end of the year I'm just seeing how it goes. It feels strange being home all the time...having been sick I haven't done much 3D but I'm looking forward to it when I improve.

 

[Miss B]

Sorry to hear you're not feeling well Pen, but I'm glad you've been tested negative for Covid-19. Take care of yourself.

 

[RAMWolff]

Healing Hugs to you Pen!