Helpful tips and lessons learned--COVID-19

[ccather]

Please offer lessons learned and tips that can help us as we work our way through COVID-19. I ask that we refrain from negatively commenting, not that anyone would, on the ideas offered.

I'll go first.

I was able to refill my prescriptions early and insurance paid. YMMV

 

[ccather]

Anyone had to file for unemployment? What were your experiences?

 

[ccather]

Anyone hiring?

 

[FUPAGUNT]

Anyone hiring?

I heard Publix is looking to hire a bunch

 

[ccather]

Thank you for the info. You may have just helped someone.

 

[Rebel_Rider1969]

Stay away from truck stops. I normally use the Loves in loxley as a meeting point for exchanges. Lot was full of bums and skags. Couldn't even get off the bike good, and it started. You got money? Can you give a girl a ride etc. Madhouse.

*** normally its clean and have never been approached for anything there. City cops and county keep it clear. Not now.

 

[ccather]

Good to know. Thanks.

 

[Viking1204]

I heard Amazon is hiring 100,000 people to keep up with the increased demand for online shopping! Below is the Florida Covid-19 dashboard, good source for county specific cases.

https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/96dd742462124fa0b38ddedb9b25e429

 

[War-Buff]

I went to the Tiger Point (Gulf Breeze, FL) Walmart yesterday for milk & eggs, which they had in good supply. Store wasn't terribly busy so I looked around a bit. No TP whatsoever, no cleaning supplies, no fresh meat, no packaged lunch meat (i.e. bologna, ham, etc.), no rice, no pasta, only about half dozen loaves of bread, no canned meats. They had plenty of hot dog buns, but no hot dogs. Topped of the car's gas tank at the nearby "QV" station. Gas prices don't seem to have dropped much here... at the "QV" (usually the lowest around) regular was $2.11

 

[Viking1204]

Dollar General is hiring 50,000 employees!

https://weartv.com/news/local/dollar-general-to-add-50k-employees-by-end-of-april

 

[Ric-san]

If you have school aged kids or grandkids you are watching for family, the Santa Rosa County school system set up free meals for them. We just went over with our four grandkids to the Bus Ramp at Milton High School and got 4x breakfast, 4x lunch and they donated 1 bag of groceries per vehicle.

 

[ccather]

Thanks for the pics and info.

Any word on Escambia county schools and feeding kids?

 

[donr101395]

Best advice I can give is buy it cheap and stack it deep before you need it. The only things we've bought since this started are a bag of dog food, and a package each of hotdog and hamburger buns.

 

[SAWMAN]

Ric-san, who paid for that ?? --- SAWMAN

 

[Ric-san]

Lunches coming from our county schools, not sure what organization donated the food... I'll try to find out on my next visit to let us all know. I was the "bus driver" my wife talked to them, but we can't seem to remember.

 

[Viking1204]

CVS is hiring 50,000 too and giving bonus to some employees!

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/com...onavirus-pandemic/ar-BB11zVTG?ocid=spartanntp

 

[wildrider666]

MONEY: Paper currency has a porous surface and can carry WuFlu and other germs. You give it, you get it and put it in you wallet, purse or pocket. Everything it touches is an opportunity for it to transfer on contact. China burned a crap load of currency, the Feds are quarantining shipments of currency (Fed $ not travelers $) from overseas for three weeks but I don't know how effective that is. Some folks drew wads of cash from banks (that was in circulation) and put it? Stacks of bundled cash also reduce airflow and UV exposure so that quarantine is questionable. Virus are an anomaly: not dead but not really consider alive either. Virus exist and multiply of a "host" material. That span of existance depends on what the host provides AND what else is ON the host (dirty verse clean surface/body), that is why virus do well on humans, worse on copper and cease to "actively function/exist" when exposed various disinfectants.

I did the Web search on how to kill viruses on paper currency and didn't find much help. Chinese woman tried to microwave paper Yaun and started a fire. Freezing doesn't work as it becomes active after it thaws out. One potential was using a clothes iron. I dont know heat setting or if steam was used: or if it worked or contaminated the ironing board. UV light works but I haven't found a UV strength or a firm exposure time, 15 minutes was referenced regarding why air purifiers with UV lights don't work because the exposure to UV is so brief for the volume of forced air. Would UV penetrate the bill and destroy the virus on both sides and the surface it contacts? Bleach, rinse and air dry would work but I'm not sure what it would do the the currency other than the smell, caution: we know when pure bleach is accidentally splashed on clothing it will create a hole in that spot down the road, our currency contains cotton/linen!

My Non expert position is to UV expose currency (gets air exposure too and thats good) on both sides, flip and move clean side onto prior expose/clean table top use tweezers to flip the bills and leave the tool to be exposed between uses. If 15 minutes get some results (not clear), 30 minutes is better.

I would carry cash, change recieved and that plastic credit/debit cards in a freezer size ziploc bag you can get you hand in. Seal after each use and disinfectant wipe the outside of the baggie as you clean your hands.

 

[FrommerStop]

Best advice I can give is buy it cheap and stack it deep before you need it. The only things we've bought since this started are a bag of dog food, and a package each of hotdog and hamburger buns.

I stopped by tractor supply and picked up two cheap 50+ bags of dog food. I would like to keep 200 lbs of it on hand. Hard to explain to dogs that have always been fed that you are out of food for them. When available I will supplement the cheap food with a raw egg.
Neither tractor supply, walmarts had wipes for the cart. I have some old gloves. They are starting to deteriorate, but are ok for shopping and pushing the basket around. I tried the one larger gunstore on 90 in milton-pace and it was closed. It will reopen tomorrow. Drove to Academy in Pensacola and they had a line stretched outside the store. They only allow 25 at a time in that big store. No way I am going to queue in a line next to people. I left.
When I got home picked some loquats for my lunch and took a bunch of vitamins.
I also washed my credit card.

 

[3 men & a boat]

My advice, pack you patience, people are on edge.


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[Jerry]

Did a dry run this morning at Academy - Just killing time. Only 25 customers in the store at a time, one comes out, one goes in.
NO ammo at all. The clerk said they will get ammo in the morning. Truck comes tonight, but he had no idea what it would be.
Store opens in the morning at 10:00 per the clerk.