Wellness check-in for ALL Bums

I know this is not the proper location for this, but figured this is the best place for exposure.

Please check in and post how you are doing through these difficult times. I find myself thinking and wondering about my fellow Bums and concerned about you all. Are you still working? How is Covid19 affecting your area? Are you being as safe as possible, staying home, washing hands, social distancing etc?

My wife and I are both retired and have been staying home for the last 21 days. We have make quick specific grocery runs 3 times and then head home and clean up as best we can. I told kids and grandkids to stay away, but to please call and visit often. Emotionally we are doing well. On nice days I get outside and do yard work and am getting close to having the garden ready to plant. Love doing stuff like that. I also get in a cigar once in a while.

They have not tested very many people for Covid around here (SWMO) but have had some positives. I figure there are likely more cases, but we just try our best to remain safe. Our next door neighbor is making us masks that we will use in future trips for necessities.

Please post here so we know how you all are doing.

All well here in NYC!
The wife & I are considered "essential" so we're still back and forth to work. The rest of the family are "shut-in-place".
Practicing social distancing. I wash my hands about 100 times anyway (you ever see a maintenance worker who hates to have dirty/greasy hands!) I wear nitrile gloves, but they're constantly tearing. So I just wash often.
I'm being cautious, but also think that the media is sensationalizing the situation.

Started my 2 week quarantine Friday. Couple fellas contracted the Corvid within the shipping dept. so we’ve all been sent home. Been in contact with the 2 affected and they’re feeling OK but they have families so staying at apartments/hotels to keep everyone safe.

Docs don’t wanna test me yet, but I’m in contact with them every few days. Hopefully no symptoms arise.

Stay safe out there Ya Bums and do everything you can to protect you and yours!

Thanks Brian and Joe. Please keep us updated.

Brian, I have little faith in what we are being told and I too am skeptical. But no doubt some bad shit is going on.

@WNYTONY I would love to hear your perspective on this.

No change for me. Work, cigar, home, deal with relatives. Only thing I miss is going to the B&M. Wash rinse repeat.

Been sent home with a union contract that gives me full pay and benefits for the foreseeable future. So we found a beautiful home (killer deal) on the coast for a month. It’s only an hour or two from home. Sweet, hope all are well!

Counting boats and building puzzles with my favorite girl!

By the way the mortality rate associated with this is 1% or less. Hope it passes soon but I love the fresher air slower pace and extra space.

Steve, Thanks for checking in!

Doing well here. Kids are e-learning from home including 2 college students. Wife is teaching her classes online.
I am still going in to work, although had to take a 25% temporary pay reduction - business is way down. Working even more though as half of the company was furloughed so I am taking up some additional duties; everything from housekeeping (we cancelled cleaning services) to regulatory and executive. Of those of us that remain, half are working from home. I am able to stay isolated at work as we are spread out in the building and my office is isolated away from everyone else anyway. Can't say I don't mind the very easy commute now without any traffic.
Making very few trips out of the home; about 1 brief grocery store trip a week and nothing else besides work for the last 3 weeks.

Trying to keep my other kids and 1 year old granddaughter away, but they have popped in once or twice briefly. I made them all wash their hands upon arrival and departure. My wife thinks I am now a clean-freak; wiping & sanitizing doorknobs, light switches, handles-- all the high touch areas, several times a day; even though nobody in my house has gone out at all except the wife once or twice to the store. Doing the same in my car.
Like Steve, I am trying to get outside when I can for a walk or working in the yard as weather permits.

Hoping everyone else is safe. I will do my part to continue to contribute to the cause. I am not concerned for myself or direct family members of the illness, but I do not want to put myself, family, or co-workers into a mandatory quarantine situation (as if they aren't already by virtue.)

Like @Brimy , I keep wondering how much of this is blown out of proportion and sensationalized.
Can't wait to get past this shit! It is going to be a long recovery.

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All well here in NYC!
The wife & I are considered "essential" so we're still back and forth to work. The rest of the family are "shut-in-place".
Practicing social distancing. I wash my hands about 100 times anyway (you ever see a maintenance worker who hates to have dirty/greasy hands!) I wear nitrile gloves, but they're constantly tearing. So I just wash often.
I'm being cautious, but also think that the media is sensationalizing the situation.

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That’s exactly how I felt Brian.

Working as an essential worker in a place that produces Water purifying and Air Purifying UV lamps mainly used in Hospitals that we would be ok. Turns out not so much. We have an ozone blow everyday before people show for work and uv lamp stations setup al over that kill all germs within an 8 feet box. 2 brothers caught the bug already even with all these precautions in place. Mainly the problem is that people ain’t doing what is right at home and then bringing it to there places of employment.

Just stay safe and do all you can to protect your loved ones bro. This pandemic doesn’t care what we think.... it just attacks and is multiplying.

Glad to hear all you Bums are doing well! We're doing well on our parts. My wife and I are both blessed that we have the ability to work from home. My son and daughter are e-learning from home. Hopefully this will end soon! Prays and thoughts are with you all!! Be safe!

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Thanks Brian and Joe. Please keep us updated.

Brian, I have little faith in what we are being told and I too am skeptical. But no doubt some bad shit is going on.

@WNYTONY I would love to hear your perspective on this.

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All well here but I'm going to work every day as I work at the Health Department and it's our show. Thankfully we are only at 8 positives in our county but we still haven't tested 300 people out of our available 400 tests.
We received new policy last week that even if we have positives in our staff they are to contact the EOC nurse and continue to report until they show symptoms as they need the people. So I got that going for me. Friday's meeting was to discuss our mass mortality plan which was due to the state so they were contacting coroners and funeral homes to gauge capacity and we don't have any deaths yet. NYC is crazy and they are applying it to the rest of the state, but they are beyond funeral homes and talking about refrigerated semis and hockey arenas.
From the figures I get it's spreading fast and we're not to the surge yet. And then they say it should go into decline but it will still be around so it's going to affect everyday life for a while I think. Social distancing and hand washing will be around for a bit but many of us practice that anyways.
Wife is working from home and so far all the kids are good. And I think I have just enough cigars to weather the storm so I'm just trying my best not to get it, just like everyone else.
Stay safe all you Bums and thanks @Old Smokey for starting this thread.

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All well here but I'm going to work every day as I work at the Health Department and it's our show. Thankfully we are only at 8 positives in our county but we still haven't tested 300 people out of our available 400 tests.
We received new policy last week that even if we have positives in our staff they are to contact the EOC nurse and continue to report until they show symptoms as they need the people. So I got that going for me. Friday's meeting was to discuss our mass mortality plan which was due to the state so they were contacting coroners and funeral homes to gauge capacity and we don't have any deaths yet. NYC is crazy and they are applying it to the rest of the state, but they are beyond funeral homes and talking about refrigerated semis and hockey arenas.
From the figures I get it's spreading fast and we're not to the surge yet. And then they say it should go into decline but it will still be around so it's going to affect everyday life for a while I think. Social distancing and hand washing will be around for a bit but many of us practice that anyways.
Wife is working from home and so far all the kids are good. And I think I have just enough cigars to weather the storm so I'm just trying my best not to get it, just like everyone else.
Stay safe all you Bums and thanks @Old Smokey for starting this thread.

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Thanks for chiming in Tony. I appreciate your feedback on this..

As many of you know, I have a plethora of major health issues, so I guess I should be more concerned, but in all honesty I’m not. I stay at home 24/7 anyhow with Dr. visits being the exception. I am very very Leary of how this has turned into almost an event, with the news pouring fuel on the fire for no reason.

In no way am I saying don’t be cautious till this is over, I just don’t believe everything told to me without research of my own.

That said, me and my wife have a brand new 4K 65 inch and a new 4K entertainment system, so we are enjoying some HDR movies and bingeing some shows we have been wanting to watch.

Love you guys!

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Forgot to mention our 3 week shelter in place goes into effect in 30 min. But for the most part that’s what most of us here have been doing already, so not much change.

My idea of shelter in place
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Wife and I are fine. Both our jobs are considered essential but at least she can work from home. Friday at work we had no more than a dozen people at work and 5 of those were on my floor. Doing my best with social distancing.

We have less than 50 cases in our county but state wide we have 6766. I fear too many are taking this lightly.
So far we have 311544 cases in the us with 8488 dead(more than 1%) and we are weeks away from our peak. White house's best estimates say at least another 92k will die.

Please be safe out there!

South West Ohio is in pretty good shape. Wife and I stocked up on items as soon as we heard the news. Had an idea this would
take off like a runaway train. Never used my Vacuum sealer like I have in the last 2 weeks. The weather has been fairly good
so I've been in the yard most of the time. It's not looked this good in a long time.

Started most off my garden seeds so ahead of the game there. Seems the alcohol sales in Ohio are up like 55%. State has
restricted store sales hours and limited number of patrons allowed at 1 time. Wonder how many babies will be born next Jan/Feb.

I really think we are being told about 10% of the truth on this. Can't even watch the news or read a paper because it's all
negative and gets depressing actually. There are a lot of good things going on out there but they don't get noticed, sad because
we could use some feel good news.

Hope everyone remains safe and we are all still here when this is behind us.

Wife and I are doing well. Also the kids are virus free. I have been working from home for the lat 3 weeks. Elsie is a teacher and has been home the last two weeks. Since my office is in Manhattan I am glad to be working from home. We are practicing social distancing and hope this helps with getting trough this virus and back to normal life.

Spending my time splitting and stacking wood for next winter. Smoking more cigars and drinking more bourbon by the fire than usual but that is ok by me. Don't watch the news as I too feel a lot of it is overplayed.

Glad to see you are all doing well so please stay that way.

98.54% is the current number for survival for the USA
Remember our wonderful media and snowflakes are the driving force between this and us. The numbers are skewed and everybody who passes now is counted as a victim of this crap regardless of heart disease, lung disease, diabetes. All the NBA players that had it haven’t reported any deaths or illness related problems. Smh

Well I started the new job at the car dealership and 2 weeks later Nova Scotia went into state of emergency and shut almost everything down. Currently laid off, waiting on EI to come through. We moved from New Brunswick to our old house here in Nova Scotia that we've been renting for the last 8 years. People are pigs and destroy/steal anything and everything so I have lots to keep me busy fixing this place up, seems like I find 2 new problems for every 1 I fix. With the state of emergency they put in, anyone coming into the province has to self quarantine for 2 weeks so I've been keeping bust cleaning/fixing things.

We're going to be in a financial mess though. Being the sole income for the family it's going to be big hit. EI will be about half of my usual income, but I'm told to expect at least a month before that starts flowing. We're working with the banks to try to get mortgages and car loans deferred to help get us through until money starts flowing but if things don't end pretty soon EI won't hold us over. Total about 12 hours on hold with the banks to date. Currently on hold again to find out why I was charged a mortgage payment on my house out west when the deferral was approved 2 weeks ago. Supposed to have a decent tax return coming so if that shows up soon it'll help tide us over, and the wife has picked up a part time virtual assistant job starting within the next week or so. Fingers crossed we can get this mess straightened out. We've always lived paycheck to paycheck and I have a tendency to try to live beyond my means so this is definitely an eye opener about how easily things can turn into a mess. Just hope we can hold things together enough until some money starts flowing in.

Everyone is healthy though and that's the main thing. 2 of the kids have mild asthma so we're watching to make sure they're good, otherwise we're not too worried about it. I think it's a pretty nasty bug and not to be taken lightly, though the media is definitely out for "the big story", with common sense and a little luck it'll end and everything can get back to some sort of normalcy. Stay safe out there!

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Amen! Been through FAR worse in the las 6 months

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Ain’t it the truth!

God forgive me!
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Doing good. Unfortunately just got the new house so as each week passes I wonder if I made the tight move buying it as things seem to get worse w bo end in sight. I have been working from home but now for the month of April they have cut 8 hours out each week. I filed for unemployment to help try to fill that but if it dose not get approved I'm probably going to use my PTO days. My girlfriend has been off work w pay as she is a teacher. We did a huge stock up of grocery shopping when we moved in so we have not had to go grocery shopping but I have had some home depot and lowes trips to get things to fix small things around the house to keep me busy and keep up the maintenance of the house. On top of the covid19 deal our saint bernard had to have major surgery because she twisted her stomach.

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God forgive me!
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No no can't do that

So far so good. Work has slowed to a trickle which is far from ideal but it’s ok for now. I’m trying took at it as more time to play with my son. What work I am doing is over Zoom meetings. I try to get out at least once a day to run or walk. Lots fires in the fire fire pit after sundown with a cigar and some of my “liquid assets”. The grocery stores here are still a bit picked over for certain things like paper goods, some produce, dry grains and beans but it’s fine. I decided to use this time to get a new puppy since I’m home all the time now and can work on house training. She’ll be home 5/2. I’ve also come to realize just how valuable my son’s school really is!!!

I hope everyone is staying safe for themselves and for others. I just keep reminding myself it can always be worse. Hang in there guys and gals.

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Started my 2 week quarantine Friday. Couple fellas contracted the Corvid within the shipping dept. so we’ve all been sent home. Been in contact with the 2 affected and they’re feeling OK but they have families so staying at apartments/hotels to keep everyone safe.

Docs don’t wanna test me yet, but I’m in contact with them every few days. Hopefully no symptoms arise.

Stay safe out there Ya Bums and do everything you can to protect you and yours!

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Joe, any update?

Knowing full well I work for the Health Department and have to deal with this @Old Smokey texted me a pic of his Covid test bragging on how he was negative. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...1bd9527961.jpg

1 out of ten ain’t so bad Steve, three million units of penicillin and you’ll be all betta

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Knowing full well I work for the Health Department and have to deal with this @Old Smokey texted me a pic of his Covid test bragging on how he was negative. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...1bd9527961.jpg

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Now that's wotcha call a Clean Bill of Health. No need for any of that "social Distancing" stuff the Females must be lining up to kiss this lad (Steve) right now.

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Joe, any update?

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I’m feeling fine brother, thanks for asking and hoping you and yours are well also. Along with all of our BUM Families!


Spoke to my Boss last night and he’s received word from the CDC that all of us that got sent home for quarantine are clear to work again as long as we aren’t showing any types of symptoms and my Doctor seems to agree.

I’ve been taking my temperature twice a day and all seems good. Thankfully none of the common symptoms have arisen thank GOD!! So I’ll be heading back on Monday. The boss and our safety manager were both back on Thursday.

Still need to be vigilant and wear masks and gloves. Dealing with deliveries and pickups all day Im right in the crosshairs of this damn thing.

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Showed this to my grandmother who’s 86 as I stopped by to drop groceries and some others thing of need.....she’s still laughing!!!

Mask or no mask the globalization police are coming to chip us and record our existence..
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Crunch these numbers..
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I just got laid off again yesterday thankfully. I work in a body shop, and work has died off obviously people aren't driving as much so much rather take the unemployment route for now. My GF works for an urgent care which is an extension of our hospital and even those guys are dwindling down and having to reduce hours.

Dad had a scare, when the Rona started coming around he got the regular flu, turned into pneumonia and had to quarantine while awaiting results. He's pretty much back to normal now though and laying low for awhile.

Well gives me time to work on the garden and hopefully get some fishing in soon also. Oh yeah and smoke cigars! [emoji2957]

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We are still doing well in my little part of the world. I am looking forward to more warmer weather so I can comfortably spend more time outdoors. We have had highs of 87 followed by lows of 30 a couple of days later and the cold has stayed around. But I'm not complaining.

During one of those warm days I turned on the AC to cool the house down a little and Houston we had a problem. I called our heat and air guy and he came out a couple of days later to find that one of the copper tubes had rubbed a leak due to vibration and had leaked all of the coolant. The good news was the leak was in a location where he could easily solder it. The bad news was it would require 15# of coolant at $35 per pound. Unexpected, but it's fixed.

This hibernation hasn't been too bad for me and Mrs Smokey. We get along great and enjoy each other's company. I do miss physically seeing the kids and grandkids, Grandbaby #9 is about a month away from splashdown.

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We are still doing well in my little part of the world. I am looking forward to more warmer weather so I can comfortably spend more time outdoors. We have had highs of 87 followed by lows of 30 a couple of days later and the cold has stayed around. But I'm not complaining.

During one of those warm days I turned on the AC to cool the house down a little and Houston we had a problem. I called our heat and air guy and he came out a couple of days later to find that one of the copper tubes had rubbed a leak due to vibration and had leaked all of the coolant. The good news was the leak was in a location where he could easily solder it. The bad news was it would require 15# of coolant at $35 per pound. Unexpected, but it's fixed.

This hibernation hasn't been too bad for me and Mrs Smokey. We get along great and enjoy each other's company. I do miss physically seeing the kids and grandkids, Grandbaby #9 is about a month away from splashdown.

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Now there goes your plan of using your stimulus check for cigars

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Now there goes your plan of using your stimulus check for cigars

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Lol, I don't plan on spending any of it on cigars. But time will tell. Our stimulus check is hitting our account tomorrow.

See the firefighter that stopped at his bank this morning. Dude drew out two hundred and his balance was $8,200,000. He contacted his bank and they corrected it

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See the firefighter that stopped at his bank this morning. Dude drew out two hundred and his balance was $8,200,000. He contacted his bank and they corrected it

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Man, think of all the tobacco he could have bought...