Last night was the monthly "gathering" (the name and meeting of one of the quilt groups I belong to). It is usually a very upbeat group, with interesting discussions. Last night was a little more somber. We had a LOT of discussion about COVID-19. No matter what else we discussed, it seemed to always rotate back to that subject.
A few interesting tidbits - one read a text from her daughter in Switzerland with the list of things everyone should buy or have on hand in case of a quarantine. The daughter is a therapist at a hospital, and she reported situations of people bringing water bottles into the hospital and pumping out all the hand sanitizer into their water bottle. I've heard reports from the US of people stealing face masks and it makes me wonder if these people have a brain. Why would you steal from the very people who might eventually be taking care of you? If you take their supplies, what will they use when everything they have is gone and you come in and truly need it? It makes no sense. At all.
And of course at lunch the Governor for our state has issued a state of emergency, though the advice remains the same. Wake County public schools have now cancelled all field trips for the remainder of the year, a private school in Raleigh (Trinity Academy) has cancelled classes for one day as a parent has it and they want to disinfect the school just in case (not necessarily a bad thing) while meeting with health officials. Meanwhile the health department has released the early voting site where one of the five infected persons voted, as well as listing the restaurant twhere the person ate.
Some of the nurses in the group last night were very concerned; others were intrigued but not concerned much.
One thing we all agreed on - the quilt shops need to be open extra hours if we are going to have an extended quarantine period.
A few interesting tidbits - one read a text from her daughter in Switzerland with the list of things everyone should buy or have on hand in case of a quarantine. The daughter is a therapist at a hospital, and she reported situations of people bringing water bottles into the hospital and pumping out all the hand sanitizer into their water bottle. I've heard reports from the US of people stealing face masks and it makes me wonder if these people have a brain. Why would you steal from the very people who might eventually be taking care of you? If you take their supplies, what will they use when everything they have is gone and you come in and truly need it? It makes no sense. At all.
And of course at lunch the Governor for our state has issued a state of emergency, though the advice remains the same. Wake County public schools have now cancelled all field trips for the remainder of the year, a private school in Raleigh (Trinity Academy) has cancelled classes for one day as a parent has it and they want to disinfect the school just in case (not necessarily a bad thing) while meeting with health officials. Meanwhile the health department has released the early voting site where one of the five infected persons voted, as well as listing the restaurant twhere the person ate.
Some of the nurses in the group last night were very concerned; others were intrigued but not concerned much.
One thing we all agreed on - the quilt shops need to be open extra hours if we are going to have an extended quarantine period.
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