Bob Hall
From Texas, Thanks Partner !

Patrick Hagelstein
Oklahoma is with you! 👍

Mark Boots
Thanks for your gratitude. it is much appreciated. I am working in a hospital in Heemstede (Holland) and with all my colleagues we'll do our best to help our patients and try to keep the outbreak 'under control'. If we stand together perhaps we can achieve that.

Peter Hardy
Well I got sent home for the duration today! Bloke who should know better went to work today with flu symptoms. I'm over 60, got respiratory problems and a weak heartbeat. 3 out of 3! Supposed to be working from home but I'll bet some plastic will be glued while I am here. Thanks to all the truck drivers, farmers, emergency services, (yes even Bob) health care and military folks who will just get on with it and think nothing of it.

Martin Oostrom
Take care everybody!
Special thanks to the Marks and Bobs out there. 👍

Bob Hall
Thanks Martin, but I tip my Stetson to Mark, He's on the front line on this one, I'm just backing up the local police in the Toilet paper wars and fights, haven't seen this madness since Y2K !

Greg Baker
I've said it before, but we've been having our COVID-19 party here in Korea going on a month already now. That surreal feeling will pass... it's not normal, but it will feel less "dream-like" soon enough. The social distancing, washing hands, and staying home if you feel ill seems to be working here. People are taking it seriously, and the cases keep dropping. Today only 75 new cases... two weeks ago it was 1,000. The only hotspots continue to be things like churches, or call-centres where people are coming together, so still scary, but it's manageable if you take the precautions that you can. Take care everyone.

Maciej Bellos
I feel sorry for the Brits. The government there seems to think that, yeah, you all gonna get ill, people will die, so there is no need to do anything. I have friends there and they are furious...

Slavo Hazucha
Stuck home in 14-day quarantine from yesterday, due to a positive case in a Kindergarden operated by our school organization - the Kindergarden is in a different district, but their staff meets with our school staff, who work with my kids so there is a contact line... I was planning home office from last week on, but now I officially cannot leave my 4 walls & garden at all for the next 2 weeks. Fortunately my job is not essential to mankind´s survival... (3D & IT...)🙂

What makes me most concerned is the behavior of people, lack of discipline, consideration for others & broader common sense... I´m afraid our Bob´s may be as much needed as the Mark´s...

But no wonder if you look a bit into social media & the fantasy/horror stuff written & shared there... (my wife does a bit...) I think our Google´s & Facebook´s could take up a bit of mature responsiblity... If half the world can get the info that you had raw spelt-carrot cakes for breakfast, some no-hoax, serious news pushed to all users should not be such an issue...

Bart Teunis
working from home since friday and we are organizing a schedule for the NOC so that there is at least enough crew to maintain the network. we see the traffic volume growing and the call miuntes rising. Hope that everybody stays healtjjy

Cuajete
In Spain we are with the third day of official quarantine. Hopefully these measures will serve to reduce the high level of infected and deaths, which increases day by day.

We are following the evolution in Italy and how it is being solved little by little in China, South Korea or Singapore (Congrats these last countries and much encouragement to Italy. We are with you!). Let us hope that in the rest of Europe and the world the victims do not increase as much as they are doing in Italy and Spain and we hope that everything will be solved as soon as possible.

Luckily we have one of the best healthcare systems in the world and with these recently implemented measures we are trying to prevent it from reaching the brink of collapse.

My enormous thanks to the enormous efforts that are being made by the fantastic health personnel, the people who have to work outside and inside their homes, our bodies and forces of State Security and in general the whole of society. Together we will make it possible to defeat the virus!

Much strength and good luck to all the world!

And please... Keep scrupulous measures to avoid contagion and the spread of the virus (wash your hands frequently, do not touch your eyes, mouth or nose, keep the distance between people, avoid crowds, be at home, avoid displacement as much as possible... Any caution is insufficient).

Treehugger
People seem to think it is a good idea exchanging the trust of having a safe society, with food in the store. I think that is wrong. Also, lack of resources like masks is imo just bizarre, or indicative of government incompetence.

Good thing I bought some extra stuff, little by little. A woman was, or pretending to be coughing at my local store, I'll be wearing one time gloves and a mask next time I go shopping for food (don't have many ) to do what I think is best.

I do wash my hands more often at home during the day, just in case I somehow have the virus, thinking, maybe good idea to try limit the amount of potential virus inside my home, even if a virus might come only from myself. I am so far not sick, or it doesn't feel that way. I did sneeze a couple of times, but I suspect that might perhaps stem from me sanding my models, which sometimes can provoke a sneeze because of the particles.

Last night I swear I saw a local news article that discussed the possibility, that quarantined people could soon maybe go to the stores as long as they kept their distance. Which is somewhat worrysome.

Presumably, and a small hope, is that, being grazed with the virus isn't too bad, but that people that get loads of the virus in a single moment perhaps gets ill.

Greg Baker
Since we've been doing this so long in Korea already, I feel that sharing experiences might help others. It's a stressful time for absolutely everyone and it's easy to get angry quickly. Try to keep calm as best you can. Also, it's easy to get tired... and then your mind starts to play tricks on you. In the last month, I was sure I had the virus about five times... every cough, every sneeze... it makes you think... am I? Don't make yourself crazy. Luckily, most of us on this site probably have pretty well-developed levels of patience.😉

Treehugger
Btw, I am not really angry but I am a little upset. I like to think I have a sensible take on things. The imo only sensible way to run society is if everybody at least act sensibly, so simply being told stuff isn't good enough. Ergo, one can't calculate out, or demand, to sort of nulling out the "egoist" part of being a human being, because society basically relies on it anyway to function, or we would become more like robots which imo would be bad but also highly unrelistic overall.

My life will be about staying at home, so simple enough until I need to buy more food again.

Here's a fun looking tweet, which is also relevant: twitter.com/rowecrea../1239490903108194305

Peter Hardy
And in your specific case Greg, overdeveloped eyesight!

Treehugger
My favorite food these days is some kind of rice porrige made my mixing rice + powder from a bag plus dried milk, adding cinnemon and suger, hydrated with boiling water and simmering in a food thermos for 20 min. 🙂 Super lazy, and easier and less messy than cooking it on the stove.

Treehugger
Btw, if one is to believe this here below (supposedly info from WHO), sneezing not belived to be a typical symptom of being infected with COVID-19 (corona virus disease 2019): twitter.com/rowecrea..494274043904/photo/1

Bob Hall
Nice to see things in the U.K. Haven't changed TOO much ! !!!!!

Youtube Video