Great idea. We are getting out to walk on the island, but plan to do some hiking and exploring as the weather improves. We can pack a lunch, take the dogs and soak up some vitamin D. Good for the body and mind!
In addition to all the excellent advice, I'd also suggest a videoconference platform for staying in touch with family/friends you may not be able to visit with in the next few weeks.
I use Zoom for work which is quite good and easy to use. It offers a free account option which lets you video conference for up to 40 minutes at a time for free, I think.
Future Learn, one of the many online multi-university type free course learning platforms is offering a COVID-19 course. These NOT CANCELLED courses, might be a good way to spend some time learning or broadening your horizons. There are many interesting subjects to choose from not virus related too.
So apparently everyone in the area I live tried to buy food today without much success.
I haven't been on FB much lately. But I saw local people post lots of pictures of empty shelved in many different stores.
One store was limiting canned foods to 5 per person and most were out.
I went to our local Von's today at around 10am. It was more crowded than usual, kind of similar to day before Thanksgiving, but not any worse than that. There was no TP and water bottles were being limited to 5 gallons per customer. I needed neither, was just there to replenish fresh foods. I will say, though, that everyone was polite, cordial, low key. People were clearly socking up on stuff, but no one was taking all of any one thing.
I think we rural people tend to be better stocked all the time just because we know the pure joy of waking up in the middle of the night only to realize we've used the last roll of squeezably-soft Charmin.
"EARL!! I asked you to stop for toilet paper on your way home from the bait shop!"
"Not now, Martha! Me and Rufus is about to set fire to this wasp's nest's above his workbench! Use a magazine!"
So I finally made it to the store yesterday to get some basics we are running low on-almost the entire store, decimated. Pasta aisle, soup aisle, good luck in the cleaning supplies aisle. I did get some Jell-o cups and oatmeal pies so we're golden.
I was standing and looking at the remaining soups, and a guy rudely stepped in front of me without saying excuse me, stood there blocking me, and my husband coughed, not on purpose, he has seasonal allergies, and that guy got out of my way faster than a mosquito at a spider convention. Wrong, I know, but it made me chuckle. I know I would have had the same reaction. Gotta find humor where you can, these days. People are jumpy.
I am ever so thankful that I listened to my Intuition and prepared for this 3 weeks ago!!!! I actually had enough to make a care kit for my son who stopped by on his way home from the hospital to self quarantine for the next two weeks...I gave him a box of Mullein Tea and some fresh thyme, lemons, and raw local honey and some boxes of jello and a few jars of Better than Bouillon and some Simply Nature bone broths. He was headed home after being given IV fluids to hydrate,morphine for pain and Tylenol for the fever. I did not open the door...we talked through the glass... he looked like shit... he didn't touch anything but the bag as he lifted it from the shelf on the porch...still... I sprayed disinfectant around after he left. I use what we use at work - it kills parvo,MRSA and so much more... the way this stuff spreads actually reminded me of the parvo outbreak in canines years back before many survived it or had vaccines for...highly contagious and swift onset and deadly. I am set to handle my "staycation" for the next two weeks.
Praying for a swift recovery for your son, Journey.
You're exactly right. It's like human Parvo.
We have plenty of food and supplies, it was more a trip to stock up on fresh stuff, but the dry good aisles-holy cow.
Thank you for your prayers..... I planted early lettuces, spinach and sugar snap peas this weekend, a few carrots still producing.... still getting mustard green and kale from my garden. I also have a yard full of dandelion greens, wild violets, chickweed, dead nettle, curly dock ,sorrel and some oyster mushrooms in the wood behind my yard... and .. I have about 3 dozen eggs from a coworkers hens so they will keep longer than store bought eggs. I am okay on fresh stuff...really no need to go anywhere. Many of us have fresh wild greens coming out now.. search online to find ways to identify and use them. Grow Forage Cook Ferment is a great Facebook page and website to get recipes and ideas of how to use these foraged Spring foods. Cooking with foraged foods can be quite fun and educational...and.. nutritious.. just be sure to 100% identify all foods you harvest.