What Are You Doing In Quarantine?

Utah has gone insane. Everyone's raiding stores to get food so shelves everywhere are bare. My husband heard that a local grocery store had plenty of food (must've just restocked) about 30 minutes ago so he raced over there...not to get a surplus, but to just get food. I've been out of town the past 2 weeks so we seriously haven't had anything to eat.

As of today, schools are closed for the next 2 weeks. Churches are cancelled. For LDS members (heavily populated in Utah), temples were also restricted today. My husband is now working from home for the next 2 weeks. We're still waiting on hearing if my daughter's soccer season will be cancelled or postponed.

And honestly, I'm trying to look on the bright side. We've been asked to not go anywhere, to "socially distance" ourselves. I'm kinda hoping that helps my family turn to each other and do more things with each other instead of fight. We'll be doing some schoolwork, chores, activities (electronic & not), yardwork, etc...and I'm honestly hoping we can sit around and just talk. Our family life is busy and chaotic. I'm wanting to take this as a break to get closer together, get a little creative, and also REST. Hopefully the weather will cooperate for every thing I'm wanting. We'll see!
 
Shelves are BARE.....schools are out until the 6th of April here in Michigan (a few ladies mentioned that)
Work is being extra careful, but we still have to go. Lots of public things are shutting down, the libraries sent emails saying they were closed too. Many of the daycares are closed.

I'm going to use it to sleep a lil extra for work days, since I won't have to get the kids up and out the door.
 
rdjrneace said:
Empty nester here but I work in Insurance so it has been crazy with people asking if they have to shut down does their insurance policy cover it - the answer is no because an infectious disease is not a covered loss. So after telling people that they are not happy and then want to complain (have to admit insurance was not my first choice but I do love the challenge).
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What type of insurance do you work with? I'm also in the insurance industry (23 years). I'm doing the continuity planning for about 5k employees (less than 10% of our total workforce). All of our US operations are WFH equipped and I'm working with our team to get our offshore (India, etc) employees similar amenities. Many types of insurance policies do cover these type of claims, so we are closely monitoring our claims volumes.
 
Public schools here weren't cancelled (yet) but the spring break was moved from the second week of April to the 4th week of March. All after school activities and field trips were suspended too. My husband and I went to costco this morning and man, it was jam packed with people which made it looked like it was a Saturday. No available water, kitchen towels, clorox wipes and hand sanitizer either.
 
I'm in Maine as well and we now have 3 confirmed cases as of yesterday. They're all in the southern part of the state, but I'm sure it will hit my area before long, especially since we have an international airport and it's the 3rd largest city in the state. The civic center here has closed down - no concerts, events, etc. No event more than 100 people anywhere else. My daughter arrived home lock, stock, and barrel yesterday from the university campus in the southern part of the state and will be home the rest of the semester, as the UMaine system has gone online only for the rest of the semester.

I work in an assisted living/Alzheimer care facility, so as you can imagine, we are taking extreme precautions. No travel out of the state for employees (if they do travel, they're on a 2-week leave once they return to make sure they don't develop symptoms). No visitors to the facility from out of state. We've canceled all outings and nonessential in house services until further notice. Due to where I work, I'm erring on the side of caution and just being careful of where I go and making sure I wipe, spray, and wash. I do, however, have to travel to our location in the southern part of the state to train a new administrator this coming week. I'll basically be at the facility and the hotel and not anywhere else. I'm not worried if I end up getting COVID-19, but my sister is very immunosuppressed, my parents are in their 80s, and my boyfriend's mother is 96; I would feel horrible if any of them contracted it from me.
 
Like Sheri said, WA schools are closed for 6 weeks! I work (dental hygienist- impossible to work from home) only 2 days a week so thankfully my hubby can work from home those days. He has ALL his employees working from home, so he will probably go into the office a couple days a week.

We are thinking about getting a puppy! Call me crazy... but since we are all home for at least 6 weeks with all of our sports/activities cancelled- it's pretty perfect timing! We're looking at another english bulldog- a little sister for our Lucy- so far I'm in love with this pup that's only about an hour away from us...
isnt she adorable!? Now to decide on a name..
 
We're all shut down here in OH, and everyone here is out of school until at least April 6th. I foresee this being a much longer closure than that, since the peak isn't supposed to hit until almost May. I've set up the kids' school stations, so they can do the work that's been assigned without killing each other. And I've got a ton of board games, movies, Netflix, Amazon Prime etc. We had to break it to our daughter that even though church choir is going on, we're not attending. And same for karate.
In the meantime, I'm crocheting, and trying to organize photos to scrap this weekend. It's hard with everything that's going on, to focus. But I'm naturally happiest at home, so this isn't such a bad deal for me, personally. We're stocked on food, paper supplies, etc, so it's just down to getting more quality time in with the fam!
 
cooperL788 said:
We're all shut down here in OH, and everyone here is out of school until at least April 6th. I foresee this being a much longer closure than that, since the peak isn't supposed to hit until almost May. I've set up the kids' school stations, so they can do the work that's been assigned without killing each other. And I've got a ton of board games, movies, Netflix, Amazon Prime etc. We had to break it to our daughter that even though church choir is going on, we're not attending. And same for karate.
In the meantime, I'm crocheting, and trying to organize photos to scrap this weekend. It's hard with everything that's going on, to focus. But I'm naturally happiest at home, so this isn't such a bad deal for me, personally. We're stocked on food, paper supplies, etc, so it's just down to getting more quality time in with the fam!
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May?!?!?!?!

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Well . . . .good thing I have this hobby!!! :wub:
But that isn't going to feed the family if the shelves don't get stocked.

We are awaiting an answer from the Commander if they are shutting down school. We will find out in about 2 hours what they plan on doing. As far as I know we are still the only place in this area that hasn't made an announcement about closures.

We have family coming in next week, on their way back to Michigan. Now I'm wondering if they will be allowed on post or if they'll have to wave on their way through the area. :confused:
 
Well, I received a general call from our sup today saying that schools will be closed starting on Monday. I know that teachers here are preparing for an online access for the students while at home as per their call early this week. So, I'm also preparing some lessons and activity for my daughter and I to do for two-three weeks.
 
our "social distancing" is starting on Monday. We went to a movie last night (before the theaters are the next thing to shut down), and got groceries. Today, we needed to run a couple errands (things we couldn't find at the grocery store yesterday), I wanted to see if Kohl's would still honor my Kohl's cash (yep...I heard it's good for up to 10 days later), we got lunch out, and picked up 5 movies from Family Video.

I made up a list of things for the girls to do each day (reading, crafts, games, puzzle, home projects, cleaning their rooms) as well as "school work" they all can be working on (studying for psat/sat, a project assigned before our shut down etc).
 
It sounds like many of your kids were assigned work to do over the shut down, or are having online school. Our State made the decision at 11pm on Thurs night that schools would be shut down after class on Friday. Our teachers had ZERO time to prepare anything extra.

I know that there are websites for younger kids, and even activity books (I had a tone of them when my girls were little). Any ideas for my teenagers? Our library is closed until April, so I can't get anything that way (not even online, since our assigned library was closed due to a building problem way back when, so we can't utalize the online at the library we go to).

I have a handful of activity books that I keep for travel in the car- sudoku, word searches, crosswords etc. I'm thinking I'll get a few of those out, so they can at least keep their minds active and do something NOT on their phones all day long. Any other ideas or websites for teens?
 
aussiegirl said:
It sounds like many of your kids were assigned work to do over the shut down, or are having online school. Our State made the decision at 11pm on Thurs night that schools would be shut down after class on Friday. Our teachers had ZERO time to prepare anything extra.

I know that there are websites for younger kids, and even activity books (I had a tone of them when my girls were little). Any ideas for my teenagers? Our library is closed until April, so I can't get anything that way (not even online, since our assigned library was closed due to a building problem way back when, so we can't utalize the online at the library we go to).

I have a handful of activity books that I keep for travel in the car- sudoku, word searches, crosswords etc. I'm thinking I'll get a few of those out, so they can at least keep their minds active and do something NOT on their phones all day long. Any other ideas or websites for teens?
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I teach middle school math. Khan Academy has a ton of videos/topics about just about anything kids might want to learn. I use it for math for kids who need extra practice. Totally free.
Prodigy is another good math related site. It allows me to set up content that goes along with common core standards, but you don't have to use it that way.
There are a lot of sites out there. Our school uses Open Up resources to access the Illustrative Math curriculum... it's all online and completely free.
Other fun sites my students use include these:
Game About Squares
SET puzzles
Digital Breakout
Balance Puzzles

If I come up with any more, I'll let you know. :)
 
Things are changing so quickly, it's hard to keep up! We were notified last week that we would have a teacher day Monday to prepare plans for distance teaching. Fast forward to today... now that is cancelled, and basically all schools in southern Maine are closed for the next 2 weeks. Hoping that I can get into school on Monday to put stuff together. Very stressful for teachers and parents alike. I feel for everyone who suddenly has to find childcare.
My youngest is a freshman at a school in Boston. He's been home on break this week, and got the word that break is extended until Wednesday, and then online learning starts Thursday. We were able to go to Boston today and clean out his dorm.
My oldest son is doing a music therapy internship just outside of Boston. He does a lot of work with nursing homes and schools, and now most of his sessions are cancelled. He's super stressed trying to figure out how all of this is going to affect his internship.

I just wish people weren't going nuts and hoarding everything in site... it's just creating panic and hysteria. Ugh.
 
AmieN1 said:
We are thinking about getting a puppy! Call me crazy... but since we are all home for at least 6 weeks with all of our sports/activities cancelled- it's pretty perfect timing! We're looking at another english bulldog- a little sister for our Lucy- so far I'm in love with this pup that's only about an hour away from us...
isnt she adorable!? Now to decide on a name..
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Think I can convince the husband to let us get another hairless cat?? :wub: :thumbup:

lorigaud said:
I teach middle school math. Khan Academy has a ton of videos/topics about just about anything kids might want to learn. I use it for math for kids who need extra practice. Totally free.
Prodigy is another good math related site. It allows me to set up content that goes along with common core standards, but you don't have to use it that way.
There are a lot of sites out there. Our school uses Open Up resources to access the Illustrative Math curriculum... it's all online and completely free.
Other fun sites my students use include these:
Game About Squares
SET puzzles
Digital Breakout
Balance Puzzles

If I come up with any more, I'll let you know. :)
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Well the Commander shut down the schools on post until further notice. The teachers have 3-days to get lesson plans created and on Thursday we'll either have to pick up paper/assignment packets at the school or utilize some sort of Google Classroom on an electronic device. After Wednesday, all daycares are closed on post. The hospital on post is doing drive-through screening for those who think they have been affected, coming home from a high virus area, etc. No one is allowed in the hospital unless they've been screened and approved, this includes for all appointments (which our doctor's offices are in the hospital).

Tomorrow I have to get to the commissary and see if they have anything on the shelves because I just found out I have four family members coming tomorrow night and will require meals.
 
lorigaud said:
I teach middle school math. Khan Academy has a ton of videos/topics about just about anything kids might want to learn. I use it for math for kids who need extra practice. Totally free.
Prodigy is another good math related site. It allows me to set up content that goes along with common core standards, but you don't have to use it that way.
There are a lot of sites out there. Our school uses Open Up resources to access the Illustrative Math curriculum... it's all online and completely free.
Other fun sites my students use include these:
Game About Squares
SET puzzles
Digital Breakout
Balance Puzzles

If I come up with any more, I'll let you know. :)
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Thank you so much for these! I will pass them onto my girls and hope they at least try them out! :)
 
AmieN1 said:
Like Sheri said, WA schools are closed for 6 weeks! I work (dental hygienist- impossible to work from home) only 2 days a week so thankfully my hubby can work from home those days. He has ALL his employees working from home, so he will probably go into the office a couple days a week.

We are thinking about getting a puppy! Call me crazy... but since we are all home for at least 6 weeks with all of our sports/activities cancelled- it's pretty perfect timing! We're looking at another english bulldog- a little sister for our Lucy- so far I'm in love with this pup that's only about an hour away from us...
isnt she adorable!? Now to decide on a name..
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He's a cutie! We dog sit for friends of ours, and we get them next weekend...it's our puppy fix! :) I think he looks like a Patches
 
My oldest's preschool is now cancelled for 2 weeks at least. Libraries are closed too. We will just keep doing what we've been doing. Avoid indoor places besides grocery store. Spend more time outside and trying to enjoy each other's company without driving ourselves crazy.

Oh and unpack... because we just moved this morning! haha
 
Leablahblah said:
My oldest's preschool is now cancelled for 2 weeks at least. Libraries are closed too. We will just keep doing what we've been doing. Avoid indoor places besides grocery store. Spend more time outside and trying to enjoy each other's company without driving ourselves crazy.

Oh and unpack... because we just moved this morning! haha
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I've been thinking of you because I knew you were moving this weekend!! I can't wait to hear all about it!!! :wub:
 
Nothing major is happening here. We are not quarantined at this point. K-12 is staying open. Modifications are being made. Extra activities postponed and plans put in place to maintain social distance. Seriously, keeping elementary kids (I have 2nd and 3rd graders at work) 6 feet apart? I don't know how this will work! The next 4 days before spring break will be interesting to say the least!

My college has cancelled face to face classes beginning Monday. Spring break is next week so they will let us know after that what the plan is. The online classes will be business as usual. I'm annoyed because I need my algebra class to be a face to face class in order to really understand what is going on.

No public events have been canceled yet. Everything is still open and people are going about their business. My daughter works at a movie theatre. The owner has no intention of closing unless he is forced. Her shift was extended tonight so they must have a crowd. They are taking some precautions (like extra hand sanitizer dispensers around) but nothing big. She know what precautions to follow for her personal care.
 
We're not quarantined, but our church has stopped all meetings worldwide for the near future, so today was a quiet day at home. I filed all the backlog of digital kits from my downloads and 'used kits' folder. It's the first time those folders have been emptied in a looooooooong time! Feels great!
 
At 8 pm Thursday we got an email saying our schools weren't shutting down yet. Four hours later they reversed that decision, so we're out at least until April 13th. I'm wondering if we're really going to be able to go back then. Even if people truly take this social distancing seriously, it will still be at least 2 weeks before we start to see it pay off with a decline in cases. Unfortunately, I think too many people aren't taking it seriously yet and won't until the numbers get higher or they know someone personally affected. :( Cases are doubling every 48 hours here in the DC Metro area, so I think it's going to get bad quickly.

I'm a preschool teacher, so I'll be home along with my kids. Not much teleworking I can do! I wish DH would telework, but unless his office mandates it he refuses to. He's even still riding the train into DC every day even though he could drive. (If you can't tell, I'm not happy with what I think are selfish decisions. Because of where he works I understand if he feels like he has to be at work through this, but there's just no good reason for him to keep riding the train.) I hope it gets mandated ASAP. If not, then I'm assuming we'll all get it through him.

We're doing as much online shopping and as little in person as possible. We'll mostly stay home until school resumes. We've cancelled spring break travel and everything else. We'll keep medical appointments, including DS's weekly social skills group, unless something changes. We'll also probably do some hiking. It's easy to be separated quite a lot from others on most of the trails around here, so that seems safe enough. I'm hoping to get a ton of scrapping done and lots of smaller house projects. So far it seems like all I do is obsessively read new developments in the Washington Post, but I'm trying to strike a better balance!
 
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Seems like daily more things are cancelled around here. I'm about 50 minutes outside of Atlanta. Schools are closed. Prom for my two senior boys is postponed until they don't know when. Church (Sundays and Wednesdays) is cancelled. We can watch online later this morning. Libraries are closed. Some grocery store chains are closing at 8:00 now. Perhaps to give them time to clean and restock. I get e-mails from a variety of companies and this week I've received a TON with them explaining what measures they are taking to protect their employees, customers and community. The indoor trampoline parks I find interesting right now. They say they will limit the number of people to 100 or something like that. Well, if we can't go sit in a sanctuary or school or library with people right now, I certainly don't plan to take my kiddo to jump around 99 other kids. How do they clean that place anyway? Especially the foam ball/cube pits? Thankfully, we are used to being outdoors going on walks/hikes as our entertainment.

The stores are so empty. Meat cases empty. Bread aisle empty. Canned meat, cleaning supplies, paper supplies...bare.

I've certainly never seen anything like this before. Even with the jokes about how, here in the South, if there is a mention of snow we all rush to buy eggs, milk and bread...it's never like this.

Since I homeschool my youngest, we aren't disrupted very much. Yet. We have some events coming up that might not happen now. We'll see. I am more concerned about my husband. He is on a variety of medications including immune suppressant ones. (He had a kidney transplant several years ago.) Thankfully the office location he goes to work at is the smaller location of the company, so less people to be around. But, it only takes one infected person around you.

I had a low headache all of yesterday. Not sure if it's stress about my EHD situation (that's in another thread) or all of the news and social media posts about the CoronaVirus. Or both.
 
I wish they'd cancel work, because I have like 900 things at home I could totally get done with that much time off. LOL!
 
I'm in the Portland, Oregon area. Oregon schools have been closed till the end of March I believe. Daughter's university (UO go Ducks!) went online for finals and will be online for at least 3 weeks AFTER spring break. They'll make further decisions in mid-April. What happens to band students? Music majors? We go grab her today and drive her home. While it will be great to have here for an extended time, I cringe knowing we still pay apartment rent for her, but more cringe because my shy introvert has been so rocking the extracurricular activies at school - she is an accounting major. The child who has trouble talking to people is tutoring accounting, was doing people taxes through a nationwide program called VITA, is a peer counselor for the school with regular hours when she normally meets with students who need advise, and was just elected as vp finance of her accunting club - also another nationwide club or program. So it hurts my heart that she won't really be doing any of that when school starts back up online.

Store shelves emptied quickly around here. I'd picked up extra TP from Amazon a couple weeks ago when I heard that people were beginning to hoard - which I'd also ordered hand sanitizer! Did my groceries very early yesterday at a nearby higher end grocery store - people who hoard ususally do so from less expensive stores so there was no lack of food - though they've been out of the sanitizer in any form for a week already and almost out of TP yesterday morning. I've been slowly buying extra canned and packaged goods the last couple weeks in aniticipation of what might happen and finished my own stock-up yesterday buying twice what I normally might! Of course I'll be feeding my daughter now.

Hubby's work already was adjusted since he has been trying to retire so he is far more home than not anyway. I was about to rejoin WW but that can wait as I'm not going to a group of people and sit next to them all and have just one arrive sick - I'm betting the group I normally go to is now half empty as it was a lot of older people in it. Normally I see a trainer once a week at the gym to help me thanks to disk issues in my back - he told me last week not to hesitate to cancel a session if I was feel ill or uneasy about any of this. He's actually in his late 60's. He had hand sanitizers in his pocket and before each machine we used he rubbed it all over the parts we would touch - brilliant! The gym is a little less crowded. My heart is in debate about whether to go this coming week - sigh.

So we'll all be home mostly. Reading books, watching tv, playing on computers, designing in my case, going out to walk or hike, perhaps doing the workouts at home as I do have equipment, daughter doing some baking I'm sure (yummy but fattening). But the restrictive feel of everything happening really works on my inner claustraphobia!
 
All Illinois schools will be closed at least until March 30 - and the Illinois Governor announced all restaurants and bars be closed to dine ins until at least March 30. There is a confirmed case of Covid-19 in a town about 20 miles away from our home.
 
I hear you, Tracey. There is so much my one daughter will be missing with band as States was already been canceled. Not to mention her sport and other things in general. Yet, she feels sorry for the seniors who might miss prom and graduation.
 
The closest confirmed case to us that I'm aware of was announced this evening. A teacher at a school 10 minutes from my house. And the school is less than a mile from my church. And...some of our church members teach there or kids go there.

Sigh.
 
We are under quarantine now. They just made the call around 5pm. The plan at 1pm was to have school as usual tomorrow with some precautions taken. The state has recommended all schools be closed until the 30th so we are home this week and next (next is spring break for us anyway).
 
The announcements are coming that we will go in a hard lockdown this time, so bigger than it was during the spring...

Homeschool again, stores are closing except for the grocery malls, and other important things like bakery butcher and medicine pick-ups stay open. Sport clubs are closing restaurants were closed already, amusement parks and musea are closing and work at home again..

We are not allowed to have more than visitors a day with Christmas only 3, but this is huge... specially now with one at high school that will be a very weird 1,5 month coming
 
wendyp said:
The announcements are coming that we will go in a hard lockdown this time, so bigger than it was during the spring...

Homeschool again, stores are closing except for the grocery malls, and other important things like bakery butcher and medicine pick-ups stay open. Sport clubs are closing restaurants were closed already, amusement parks and musea are closing and work at home again..

We are not allowed to have more than visitors a day with Christmas only 3, but this is huge... specially now with one at high school that will be a very weird 1,5 month coming
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I heard it on the radio a few hours ago.
We are in a lockdown since the end of October. Schools have re-opened for children under 12 years old and shops are open as well. Everything else (restaurants, sports clubs etc...) are still closed. All events are cancelled.
It's hard, especially during Christmas time. I hope you and your family stay strong and safe, Wendy!
 
Saar said:
I heard it on the radio a few hours ago.
We are in a lockdown since the end of October. Schools have re-opened for children under 12 years old and shops are open as well. Everything else (restaurants, sports clubs etc...) are still closed. All events are cancelled.
It's hard, especially during Christmas time. I hope you and your family stay strong and safe, Wendy!
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Thanks, yeah here are all schools closing and shops.. but if yours are open and Germany is closed as well don't you thing germans and dutch will go to Belgium?
 
wendyp said:
Thanks, yeah here are all schools closing and shops.. but if yours are open and Germany is closed as well don't you thing germans and dutch will go to Belgium?
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Yeah, they probably will.
I know that when everything was closed in Belgium, Belgian people went to Eindhoven, Tilburg and Breda to shop. Some people made appointments with hair dressers in the Netherlands to get their hair cut.
Hair dressers and beauty salons are still closed here.
 
Stay safe! They say they won't close our schools here anymore. Hoping they won't. Stores and restaurants are also still open for now...some states have curfew but in Texas we are still open. I am praying it doesn't go back to lockdowns....It was horrible.
 
We lost a family member last week to COVID. Many others I know have been sick but recovered. Our province has restrictions of no indoor or outdoor gatherings, masks are required everywhere. There is limited capacity in the stores and many places are shut down. I think they shut down indoor restaurant seating (they were open with limited capacity last month). Our numbers keep climbing so we will be lockdown until at least mid to late January.

I only go out to the grocery store and pet store. Jen and Darrell go to work but follow strict sanitizing and social distancing. We stay home and binge watch shows and eat (I gained 10 lbs during the pandemic...ugh).
 
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