Shelter From the Storm! (Bay Area on House Arrest!)

[lbpesq]

We, along with everyone else in six Bay Area counties, have been ordered to “shelter in place”, starting tonight at midnight and lasting at least until April 7th.  Everyone is supposed to stay at home except for “essential functions” like food shopping or going to the doctor.  All non-essential businesses are ordered closed, though the list of “essential businesses” is fairly large.  Restaurants are closed except for take out orders.  This is getting weird!


Bill, tgo

[rv_bass]

They haven’t declared that here yet, But all restaurants, etc. are closed, and today I finished ramping down and closing our facility and everyone is now working remotely for the duration.  It’s a bit surreal. Stay well!

[peoplechipper]

I imagine my bosses will keep the pawnshop open even if we have to wear surplus astronaut suits!

[edwardofhuncote]

I believe it's coming soon everywhere. I brought the bug-out bag (and a bass!) to work this morning. My office here at the Plant is now stocked with two weeks of rations. They are sending a Nurse to check me out tomorrow. In 30 years on the job, this is the strangest thing I've experienced.

[garyhead]

The Banking system went through a "stress test" a few years ago....I consider this a "personal stress test".

Reevaluating my life routine and really......it's not as life-threatening as say a mass earthquake....or power plant meltdown.....

Yup....some service-sector folks will be hit bad.....we need the idea-people to come up with job cross-overs like restaurant folks applying to food distribution chains....Amazon delivery will skyrocket.....

#1 on my personal stress-test......$250,000 down in my IRA...since March 1.....but I know, you don't really lose it until you take it out.....

And as others have said.....plug in that Amp / headphone Amp and start woodshedding.

Listen to the news 90min in the AM and 60min in the PM.....Do Not leave it on all day.....Talking Heads never really help any situation....

Remember the 911 media burnout we all experienced.....

[glocke]

Last Thursday we were all basically told to work from home for the next two weeks (I work in R&D in Pharma).  Within the past two weeks We had one guy come into work after arriving from Northern Italy, someone else come into work feeling sick, getting worse as the day went on, and has since than been confirmed with COVID-19.

Here in PA, everything is shutdown.  eating establishments are take out only for now, liquor stores are shut down, and many other businesses deemed non-essential are as well.

It's extremely surreal and is like living in a movie.

Friday Im scheduled to go to my double bass lesson in NYC also...I'm thinking I might cancel that.

[cozmik_cowboy]

The owner of one our local brewpubs complained about the shut-down order - "The Governor is singling out us and everybody else!"  Fortunately he's better at crafting beer than coherent sentences........

The city council passed a special 90-day law allowing any establishment with a consume-on-premises liquor license to sell package goods to go - so at least you can be both sick and geezed!

And the state is allowing medical dispensaries (but not recreational ones) to leave their controlled access rooms & sell us weed at the curb; just like old times!


Peter

[gtrguy]

[elwoodblue]

I've been pondering theme music for 2020;
  "...and the stores were all closed" from Stairway to Heaven comes to mind.


Here's one for social distancing 

[pauldo]

I work as a Toolroom Machinist where we make cans.
Today they sent out the most curiously worded ‘waiver’ that I think we are to carry with us if we get to a “lockdown” condition.
Since cans are an integral part of our food supply chain and I am a “can maker” I shall not be impeded by law officers from attending my place of employment.

Not gonna lie, this is rather disturbing and at the same time comical.  Not sure if I should laugh or cry.   Do I reveal the actual truth?  The truth that I am a bass playing shoe maker trapped in a can maker’s world?

Paul (washing my hands on the regular and refraining from licking people’s faces)

[bigredbass]

I really wanted to work from home, but my wife has COMPLETELY drawn the line about parking my forklift in the living room . . . . . .

[edwardofhuncote]

I hear ya' Paul... unprecedented strangeness. Our HR Dept. (working remotely from their homes) wrote a 6 page update to the employee handbook just to deal with leave time declared for this, and future emergencies. I had to electronically sign a receipt, acknowledging I had been advised of the policy, and I'm not taking a leave...   


Yesterday, they sent a nurse to check on my status, basically just to verify I am asymptomatic and fit to work some pretty long hours if it becomes necessary. Trying to make light of one more in a week full of increasingly ominous/serious moments, I told her that on several occasions I had tested positive for DUMASS-18. I thought she was going to hit me with something. I reckon her life is pretty strange right now too.

[edwardofhuncote]

I really wanted to work from home, but my wife has COMPLETELY drawn the line about parking my forklift in the living room . . . . . .

 

[pauldo]

Gregory, I’m gonna use the DUMASS-18 phrase!   


Joey, parked?  You taking another break?     

[David Houck]

... I am a bass playing shoe maker ...

I never knew there were shoes made specifically for playing bass.

I really wanted to work from home, but my wife has COMPLETELY drawn the line about parking my forklift in the living room . . . . . .