"Wonder to know... how many fellow members are currently..." Topic

… confined to your home?

How many still do their homework normally outside their home?

In the case of "mandatory confinement" … have you managed to developed a diary routine?

Also… in this case…Do any of you live in an environment with a large family group?

And if the answer is yes…How does the inter-family relationship affect? (children, wives, parents, etc).

Amicalement
Armand

It's just me and my cat for now here in Southern California. I'm a teacher of frosh English and the schools are closed tight. I have some contact via chrome book with my kids, but we will be closed at least to April 30. I figure, realistically, that is a pipe dream though. I hope everyone here is taking this seriously and staying safe.

Staying home, just me and the cat. Fortunately for me I work from home and as I am extremely introverted and socially awkward so not being around people is not as much of a problem as it would be for others. I do have to go out to get groceries and eventually medicines. The local branches of my bank have closed so I will have to go downtown to pay my rent and i'm wondering should I walk or risk taking the bus?

Not confined to home here in Virginia, but highly recommended. Just me and the wife. My daughter and her boyfriend live about 45 mins away but are staying away until this settles more.

NYC under a "shelter in place" order, and soon maybe a quarantine. Fortunately, My wife and I can work from home, and the kids have remote learning.

Wife, 2 kids and I are under a "stay at home" order/proclamation as per the state governor. Essential workers (that's my daughter and I) should go to work, but I'm working from home with short trips in to the office for stuff I can't do here. People are keeping a distance, but there's still a lot of people on the roads.

Enforcement is a problem. They've threatened to pull business licenses if a "non-critical" business is open. But their categorization of businesses is not definitive. And there's the attitude of 'what are they gonna do', arrest people and put them in close proximity to others (aka. jail). That would defeat the purpose.

I'm "shelter in place" with my wife. I'm used to working at home, but it is new for my wife to do so. I've gone out only to pharmacy and for perishable-type food (milk, bread).

I thought about getting the food delivered, but couldn't schedule a slot (the stores have limited delivery capacity).

Indiana is in a "hunker down." I can go out for a walk in the morning if I stay away from people. And it's just me at home. Fortunately, I have a stuffed toy gorilla--Bonzo, the Great Ape of the UFAC--for company. But he's been looking a bit bored with me lately.

I have a daily but not a diary routine, painting castings and researching Continental Army officers five days a week, with art practice and games on the weekends.

Mostly working at home – have to go in once or twice a week but primarily on the homestead

We have worked out a daily routine and try to stick to it – fortunately for us we have a 10 acre farm so can get a good walk in a couple of times a day and still maintain isolation

"Safer at home" order here. Been getting a lot of painting done.

Shelter in place in the San Francisco Bay Area, just me and my wife in a decent-sized condo. We can go out for exercise (great bicycling around here) and for essentials like groceries, medical, etc.

We can both work remotely.

I would love to get some painting done, but I'm in the middle of a work project and want to make some more progress before I set up and start painting and kit-bashing.

The weather is colder and rainier than usual for this time of year, but we still get outside every other day.

Bought a house, on 2.5 acres last October. Wife has been off work, due to surgery, for around four weeks. I've been working from home since her surgery. Planning to work from home for another 4-6 weeks, and she will be, as well, when she returns to work in two weeks.

We worked outside, today, pulling old bundles of wire fence, and barbed wire bundles. Our nephew, and his seven-year-old daughter, joined us to help. We accomplished a great deal, and it was lovely to be working outside, in the trees. We can walk on trails in the woods, on our property, and adjoining properties, without seeing anyone. It is quite lovely.

We're in a shelter-in-place order, from the Governor, as well. No real enforcement, yet. Went to get supplies, yesterday, from a couple of stores. We've cut our outings to a minimum.

My single-parent son, with his 2-1/2 year old son, are freely visiting us. Our Governor stated that everyone will likely be exposed, as time goes on. I understand the likelihood. My hope is that they come up with a plasma-treatment: plasma from those who have recovered, contain anti-bodies to the virus; the hope is that the anti-bodies will multiply in the new host, killing any infection quickly, and efficiently. Makes sense. Hoping I don't contract it until after they have perfected a treatment -- the WHO stated a vaccine will be available in 18 months… Cheers!

My job delivering pizza is considered "essential critical infrastruction work" so I am not confined.

Working as usual (I work for a large national pharmacy/general retailer) as we are also considered an essential business (I also have a company- issued "get out of jail free" document in case travel becomes restricted). Lots of local businesses (saloons, restaurants, casinos, etc.) are closed or have limited services available by the governor's order. Traffic, both foot and vehicle, is a lot lighter than usual, but nothing like the change in the largest urban areas.

I'm in suburban Colorado, and we're only allowed out for essential visits, like the pharmacy, grocery stores, liquor stores, and marijuana stores. My wife works two days a week as a personal care assistant to a quadriplegic lady; when she's gone it is just me, the dog and cat. We are also allowed to get some exercise, which seems to include my 6-7 mile (9-11 kilometers) walk every week as well as walking the dog for an hour daily.

I retired about a year ago, so it has pretty much been keeping to my daily retirement routine. Wife has decided she likes me more since I retired.

Grelber

Yep! dad and I are in isolation!

My wife and I are retired and live in an " over 55 active adult community". All community activities have been shut down for almost two weeks now. We've been sheltering in place and only going out to the supermarket, pharmacy and doctor's appointments. Our son lives about 12 miles away in the same town and we've seen him once for a few minutes. He's an "essential worker" so at least he's busy and employed. We are fortunate that we can easily walk or bike in our community so we do get some exercise every day. Best of luck to all of you
and your families.

"….And there's the attitude of 'what are they gonna do', arrest people and put them in close proximity to others (aka. jail). That would defeat the purpose…."

Around here … the person who is discovered by the police/gendarmerie/etc by car without a special work permit (medicine / food / etc) … is detained instantly … the car is confiscated and he/she is transported home under police surveillance … after that … you are informed that a criminal case will be initiated against you in the relevant Courts … for pedestrians the police confiscated any other type of vehicle (bicycles / skateboards / etc) and the same process … if they are only "walking" … they are fined, escorted to their home and are also liable to criminal action …

The only activities to do outside your home are …

a) Buy medicines (pharmacies)
b) Buy food (if possible only once a day … do not go out several times to several places)
c) Walk your dog … only a short distance (2 blocks)

No one can stay less than 2 meters away from another person outside your home.

If you have elderly relatives who need food … use GLOBO or similar … if you do not have the money … call the Municipality.

There are no classes … there are no banks … any company (except the essential ones) works … money begins to run dangerously low …

One of the problems that I see is that there are no true reliable statistics … many people have not yet been able to make analyzes which take a looong time … the figures here are low … but in reality it is not known how many of we are the infected … the information that only affected the elderly died around here … many young people and even newborns died from the virus …

This is the most serious thing I have experienced after the war.

I hope everyone is safe and well
Armand

Oh, I didn't say that the authorities couldn't do anything, that's just the attitude I'm hearing.

I think the jury is still out on just how dangerous this whole thing is, exactly because there are no long term statistics. Last week, people were spouting the "x times deadlier than the flu" mortality rates. But since we don't know how many people are infected and don't have symptoms, those were just guesses. Having accurate numbers might change people's attitudes, though.

I have the bad feeling that they don't want to show us the real statistics…. they fear panic on people…

TMP link

Amicalement
Armand

Not me, since apparently I am "essential".

Haven't been that since the night my son was conceived, so…..

I'm still going to work a couple of days a week. My wife is a teacher and is working from home except for one day every couple of weeks when she has to go in.

We are allowed to exercise so we are going out for a walk round the streets most days. I'm also going cycling the other days.

The big supermarkets have got themselves organised now. Only so many people allowed inside at one time, tape on the floor every two meters so people can stay apart etc. We went yesterday and everything was very calm.

It's the old "keep calm and carry on" thing. We Brits love a good crisis. We can do a lot of queueing and complaining – two of our favourite things!

Social distancing is not a problem in a country where the standard way of greeting, including someone you know really well, is a slight nod of the head and a muttered "a'right"…

We are undera stay @ home order here in Michigan. We go out when necessary & to our church wich is open for brief periods for 10 or less people & I live near a metropark so I can walk my dog there. Being that both of us are retired it isn't a great inconvenience.

Isolatedish.

A lot of my job can be done remotely. We had a fairly liberal telework policy before the disease containment steps started. I still have things that require met to be physically present, so I visit the "ghost town" about half day a week.

Even the people who routinely teleworked one day a week are having some challenges. There are many things that they still were much, much more efficient at doing in person. They would normally schedule or execute those things ad hoc on their non-telework days. Now that's no longer an option, and people are having to learn fast and hard what significant remote collaboration is about.

I was mostly used to that from the military. It's different now, but I work in the IT technology field, so I am pretty up to date on technology and remote information management processes. It is a bit difficult working with people who are struggling to figure stuff out.

My personal routine has improved. I save two hours of commute on public transportation per work day. Even though I could get some work done or get some recreation done on the train, that completely recaptures the time for me.

I am also on "max flex" fours – 80 every two weeks, to be used as needed (without paperwork to approve). This is very nice now. I always got up early, so I work four hours starting in the early morning, take a two or three hour break, then finish up in the evening. I have about four hours overlap with the "regular" workday, which accommodates synchronous work events.

Both kids are out of the house, one with her own adventures in telework as an electrical engineer, the other getting a deployment level workload as an Army medic while stationed at a base in the US. So it's me and SWMBO. We're doing fine. Not really having any stress events. We teleconference with the kids a little more now. And we missed hosting game day this month. SWMBO is setting up virtual game day for next month.

The only big impact is SWMBO not visiting my aunt to help her. She's in her 80's and has significant health challenges, so there is some guilt in not providing the monthly visits to help her along, outweighed by concern that we might be carrying the disease and bring it to her. We call her a lot more too.

NOT Confined, but spending time judiciously.

Once a week trip to Publix for shopping, then early AM walks around the lake or (lucky for us) one of the many natural habitats that surrounds us.

I've always been "Good Company, for myself", as the saying goes, so between my writing, reading and love of nature…I'm pretty much all set!

The university at which I work has gone completely online until further notice. That said, I am having to move my instruction online and have been using a classroom to record all of my classes. I have been going to work everyday (even during spring break and on weekends) to make sure that all of my classes will be posted in a timely fashion. Most of the days that I have gone to work the only two people on campus are me and one security guard. It's really very eerie. I feel like the Omega man every time I am on campus.

I'm generally staying home. The Y is closed, as are many eateries who are only doing carry out now. I keep myself busy painting my toy soldiers …

I'm home for probably a few months at least, three family members are high risk. Given the difficulty we are having getting food deliveries its worrying about how long we are going to have to self isolate. Basically waiting on the mythical letter that will confirm that family members are high risk so that we can get priority on deliveries since its all but impossible to get any delivery times booked.

Not confined here, I am considered an Essential Critical Infrastructure Worker.

Yup, it is an important job. I keep telling everyone that they should respect now that I'm impotant.

Me and the GF here at home. I am working remotely, as I do anyway since the main office is in St Louis. I do normally work in an office in KC. Mostly by myself but our offices are in a larger building with others. Got groceries delivered Saturday, no real need to go out, other than for a walk through the neighborhood from time to time.

I have not been considered essential/critical for anything for a very, very long time … I have heard they are calling up retired and former military to assist with the COVID-19 War.

If they have to call me up … we really would be in very big trouble !

You bet…! (smile)

Amicalement
Armand

i'm a mailman, so I am working
larry

My wife is now working from home which is really challenging given the age of her students. Definitely a learning experience for all. I was looking for a job when this hit so I expect to remain unemployed for awhile. On-boarding a new manager is not likely to occur remotely. We have not interacted with anyone in over two weeks. We do some food pickups at two restaurants we often frequented but otherwise are having our supplies dropped off weekly (you have to order a few days in advance).

We walk daily for a mile or two. It is easy to avoid coming within close contact with others where I live. Other than that I read, surf the web and paint as much as I can.

I have not been considered essential/critical for anything for a very, very long time … I have heard they are calling up retired and former military to assist with the COVID-19 War.
Legion are you an impotant person too, like me? (smile)

I'm in Los Angeles under Stay at Home with my wife and 2 teenage boys. We can go out for groceries, take out food, or medicine, and just try to maintain social distancing.

I do IT for a utility and we're an essential service, so we're all still working. We're at multiple sites and for ages have included teleconference for most meetings, and regularly worked remotely, so the major change for me is I don't commute in now, and everyone else I work with is also not in the office. We're enabling video more often during our meetings. And any resource supporting other workers teleworking, gets high priority. We now have about 8,000 people connecting remotely per day. For jobs that require onsite presence, the buildings are emptied out so the staff can maintain social distancing from each other, and we have nurses taking temperature to allow entrance to major sites.

My wife works for the courthouse; they have never allowed work from home before but this month said she could, then closed the court so she has minimal work right now. We are both loud, so we separated her desk from mine into another room, so we can each have closed doors.

Our boys' high school switched to remote learning. Now they are on spring break but still have school projects.

We are very very fortunate to be together, so far healthy, and employed, in these circumstances that have had adverse impact on so many.

Thanks!.

Amicalement
Armand

Legion are you an impotant person too, like me? (smile)

Ah … maybe …

Under "Stay at Home" orders here in the state of Washington. Also have been under quarantine since March 23rd from my employer, a major American commercial aircraft manufacturer.

Ah … maybe … grin

Doesn't anyone read between the lines?

I'm in northern CA and we are sheltering in place but can go out for essentials. My wife and I work from home so it's not a big deal. with more time on my hands, I'm catching up on my 30-06 reloading.

Wolfhag

Thanks for asking, Armand, my friend!

I missed this thread when it was first posted but almost a month later I am in mostly the same situation I was then: "sheltering in place" at my home in Los Angeles with my wife and all 3 of our mostly-grown kids -- a working professional, a college Sophomore, and a high school Senior.

Our son the eldest is working overtime telecommuting from his room; college & high school daughters are attending classes remotely. The college student is a Cadet at West Point, so she is also trying to stay in shape, working out and running around the adjacent neighborhoods.

I am working from my home office as usual, but my partner hasn't visited for months. Instead of being in the office together we use Zoom audio and share my computer screen to work together.

My indefatigable wife (who is definitely the rock of our family) does most of the shopping, though myself and all 3 kids help out as much as possible. My wife made them all step up to help with the cooking, and they've been doing a good job. I do most of the kitchen cleaning, which for 5 adults eating 3 meals a day is more than enough. I know our dog is happy we now cook and eat so many meals for so many people at home, meaning more scraps for him.

The person in our family I feel worst for is our youngest. She busted her butt all through school and was really looking forward to relaxing and enjoying the second half of Senior year with her close friends. That got completely wrecked. She won't have a prom and almost certainly won't have a high school graduation. On one hand these are First World problems with no physical injury, but on the other hand they are once-in-a-lifetime experiences and memories that she Is missing out on. I wish there was something my wife and I could do about it but of course that's not possible. She and I have discussed how this is the first time since WWII that so many people in our country have had to struggle with personal ramifications of a single event, far more than after September 11th or the Financial Meltdown, or any of the briefer Cold War era crises from my younger days. She is also a good baker, and has been making us homemade cookies, cake and even bread. Flour and other basic ingredients have been in short supply on store shelves but we've managed to track them all down at a restaurant supply place less than a half-hour away.

The up-side for our family is that our middle child has been home with all of us for more than a month. Since joining the Army and entering West Point a little under 2 years ago we hadn't seen her for more than a week at a time and honestly didn't expect to do so for a 9-year stretch -- 4 years of the Academy & Summer training plus 5 years minimum Active Duty as an Army officer. At this point it looks like she may be here until some time in June, when she is assigned to serve as Cadre for incoming class of New Cadets and their Basic Training. She misses her classmates but I think she's enjoying the surprise chance to spend more time with us.

My mom lives a few neighborhoods away from us and we've all been over from time to time to drop something off and/or pick something up, and just check-in and see her in person -- from safe distance -- to make sure she's all good. She looks great, thank goodness. She is about to turn 80 but she is very self-reliant and honestly a "tough old broad" from the Bronx, so it's not a surprise to me that she's doing well.

A few weeks ago a friend or ours in his 70s with underlying health conditions in New Jersey contracted COVID-19 and died. Thankfully his wife, who also had it, recovered just a few days ago. Another friend in her Twenties who is a Physician's Assistant in the ER at Roosevelt Hospital in Queens got the virus and recovered, then after 3 days fever-free went back to work. Two different people very close to us are seeing their marriages come apart, driven by the lockdown. A couple other friends have seen their businesses collapse and are fighting for financial survival.

My immediate family is very lucky, because there are 5 of us we aren't that isolated, plus we all get along well enough. The kids aren't so young they require constant supervision or for my wife and I to serve as home schoolers. And none of us have a job where we have to interact with the public on a daily basis. I make a point to thank everyone I see at every store I go to for having shown up to work, from behind my mask. I know they're there because they have to be in order to make a living, but that doesn't change the fact that them being there is vital to my and my family's continued health and well-being.

Since before this started I've been working on a big wargame project that was supposed to be played over the weekend of August 14, 15 & 16. I don't know if all the players who were supposed to attend from around the country will be able to make it, but I'm trying hard to get everything ready in time. if worst comes to worst I will set up the table, serve as GM and play it remotely, using iPhone pics and email orders from all the players. I hope it won't come to that but if it does I'll do my best for the game go on.

Hope everyone who reads this is staying healthy and sane and I look forward to the day in the not-too-distant future when we can meet to do miniature battle in person together!

Many thanks to you my good friend! (smile)

Same thing up to here… 34 days of lockdown…

Be safe…

Amicalement
Armand

Ahhhh, to breathe FREE air again.

(smile)

Amicalement
Armand