tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29235839.post952817203199100220..comments2024-02-05T05:15:04.759-08:00Comments on Wandering Scientist: Life in the Time of Coronavirus, Snapshot #1Cloudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09317847285050447789noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29235839.post-21468585890339498762020-03-15T17:49:07.428-07:002020-03-15T17:49:07.428-07:00Thank you. This is super helpful and sounds like ...Thank you. This is super helpful and sounds like the choices I have been making. Am absolutely in the high risk category and in a CA area where I am certain community transmission has been ongoing for some time but no testing available. Have family in a college town where schools are now shut and teens are, with parental permission, having party time ... because no confirmed cases in that county yet at this time. Limited hospital care available. NO testing available without a 'confirmed ill, traveled to high infection country, infected person contact'... probably not then either based on the governor's remark that so many of the CDC test kits sent were incomplete and un-useable and numbers laughable given the population in this state.<br />I think the situation is going to get very ugly. I hear the grocery chains do have a good supply in their stocking centers but the hoarding panic behaviors will make that ... less helpful if controls are not put in place. Know some stores are voluntarily doing some of that now.<br />Instead of staying on the problematic side of things I am now trying to focus my attention on those who ARE thinking and following current guidelines and social distancing. And think Austria's guideline of no more than 5 together at a time has some real merit assuming your immediate family is not large. I have seen some members of my area reaching out to older people and offering to go to the store for them. We will see...<br />Please keep updating this journal.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com