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    Quote Originally Posted by jimicrk View Post
    The The Darién Gap?
    Interesting. I had to look that up. Personal experience?

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    Quote Originally Posted by t00nces2 View Post
    Interesting. I had to look that up. Personal experience?
    Yes, as a matter of fact. That's where I went to get my bulk supply of toilet paper.

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    You must not have drank the water in Mexico or you wouldn't have had much left...

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    I do enjoy this cat and mouse where people try and describe me, I'm a million different things to a million different people. Maybe I'll have a WorldScrap Tour 2021. I've been watching the Van Living guy from Canada. It's always been my dream to small space live. You never know, one of my world stops could be in your town!!!

    Here's today's useless tidbit. You can't drive from say, Anchorage AK to the bottom of South America. I was under the impression you could. But you physically can't. And it's not because of the Panama Canal.
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    Stay at home and well

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    I have been hearing stories about food shortages coming because of the WuHuFlu and its' mitigations. Have you made plans and prepared for food shortages? My wife and I have filled our freezer and are stocking up on canned goods. I also have bought 25 year freeze dried food years ago. How secure are you if the food aisles wind up looking like the toilet paper and disinfectant aisles? I am asking because now would be the time to secure an extended supply of food before the stores empty out. You also may want to consider a plan for protecting your home should people become desperate. These are the kind of incidents that preclude world wars and desperate populations. Better to be prepared and not need it than need preps and not have them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by t00nces2 View Post
    I have been hearing stories about food shortages coming because of the WuHuFlu and its' mitigations. Have you made plans and prepared for food shortages? My wife and I have filled our freezer and are stocking up on canned goods. I also have bought 25 year freeze dried food years ago. How secure are you if the food aisles wind up looking like the toilet paper and disinfectant aisles? I am asking because now would be the time to secure an extended supply of food before the stores empty out. You also may want to consider a plan for protecting your home should people become desperate. These are the kind of incidents that preclude world wars and desperate populations. Better to be prepared and not need it than need preps and not have them.
    I love my lifestyle so much I have done everything in my power to ensure that outside influences do not change it. No I am not a prepper or survivalist, just a conservative realist.
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    Im putting in a garden, properly this time. I had dug it up ( for the 3rd time ) & added the compost.
    There were a bucket of wild potatoes grown from compost & maybe from before my time here.
    Very wild & tasty taste, like when you cook them in a open fire wrapped in Ali foil.
    That & a bag of carrots i bought have extended my food supply a fair bit, so a proper garden should make quite a difference.

    Us guys in NZ are going from CoVid 4 lockdown, to grade 3 lockdown. Which means some takeaways are allowed to open, the 2 metre distance spacing (6 foot 6 inch imperial rule ) stays in effect.
    We can buy from more businesses, but on a ordered basis with a 'no contact pickup'. Hardware & appliance shops & such. But not hairdressers i think.

    We can visit people a bit more, but must keep aware of who we visit, like write it down. For tracking the spreads sake.
    Can travel further and fish off a wharf, can work in most cases but still enforcing the 2 Metres ruling.
    I have only been supermarket shopping twice in the last month so I'm not sure how stock is & if theres shortages.
    I'm lucky ( well no, i earnt the $ & paid cash) to have my own home & not have to live with other people, so seclusion is quite easy, and actually preferred. Theres also plenty for me to do. I could quite easly manage another 2 or 3 months of lockdown.

    Most corona cases here in NZ have been 'clusters' and started from one person comming from overseas, mostly China, or in contact with such, like 1 airline steward.
    There is a Wedding cluster, a old folks home cluster & a livestock conference cluster + 2 others, accounting for 80%+.
    Today we got a additional 9 cases & no deaths, so far the death % is like 1%, quite low, partly because we are so spread out, partly because of a relatively early lockdown.
    Our easy to access healthcare will definitely help.

    So most cases are known or are from a already known contact. So its not really likely to contract it from random people while out in public, but thats still possible.
    In workplace situations, anybody from outside the workplace entering it is well documented on arrival & exit. As well as whos working where & with who.

    From my 4 supermarket visits, i find the shop assistants are quite relaxed, but mindfull.
    General publics a different matter, some defiantly blasé, some quite self protectant, some people are not that mindfull of instructions. Ie taking kids to a playground & letting them interact with other kids & using community use playing equipment. Thats not allowed.
    And people 'out for a drive'. I dont see the problem if people stay in their bubble, but some people are keeping quite large & thin & porous bubbles.

    Not that many people are wearing masks, funnyly enough mostly Asians so i think 1/2 of thats really just allergys. I had intended to wear one too, but just used a rubber glove & hat ( hair catches germs) when doing shopping.
    Followed by a full 360° coverage of a spraybottle of alcohol in the carpark, of my items, bags & me, before getting into the car.
    Then leaving everything in the sun for a while at home.

    Im pretty sure i have picked up something, from 5 weeks ago. That went away after 3 weeks of me knowing its there. And then after 1 of the shopping trips i think i picked up something again, most likely a cold thats failed to develop. I'm quite sure which person, a kid who coughed.

    The weathers got cold for autumn & its in that change that i seen to pick up a cold.
    If i stay warm, don't exercise too much & stay clean, they go away. Or its 2 days in bed to get over the worst part of the cold & 4 days later its all gone. I hate being sick. Its not necessary at all.

    Well, i hope things are going Ok with the rest of you & im sorta jealous of yous on the other end of the world with your soon to arrive summer. /m
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    It's been 3 years since this thread was started.

    Don't hear much about it these daze.

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    Covid is still running around here in Maine. My boss was testing positive for awhile last month. A friend of 30 years and his whole crew were masked up last week. My wife and i contracted covid last spring in spite of being well vaxxed & boosted. The flu & norovirus are circulating too.

    Got bit by a deer tick last summer & picked up lyme disease. Whew ... that was a bad one. The pain was so bad that i couldn't sleep for more than a couple of hours at a time for an entire month.

    Anyhow ... all this stuff is the new normal. I hear about it all the time. You get used to it being around and life goes on. They use the word endemic around here. That's a pretty good word to describe it.

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    Wow just read the whole thread.

    So here was my experience.

    On the way to the hospital the morning of St Patrick's day March 17th first day of lockdowns absolutely zero traffic for 40 miles into town(it was like a scene in a movie).

    My wife had a scheduled C-section and my son was born. One day later and I wouldn't have been allowed in the hospital with her.

    Discharged 2 days later to a different world.

    We had basically planned on mostly being at home the next few months anyway. But ****. Not like that haha.

    I was back swimming at the HOA pool trying to live like normal before the end of summer 2020 wondering when everyone was going to stop freaking out.



    My funniest covid story is this.

    Masks were required at my daughters school for the outside pickup.

    I never did the whole mask thing...

    No one ever said anything except the principle a few times she was out front.

    Well she's the big boss and had to push the issue so i had this big bag of kettle corn...

    I carried that bag of kettle corn to the front doors of that school for 2 weeks before she blew her fuse!!!

    She comes at me with something like "I know you're just eating because you dont want to wear a mask" hahahaha

    I told her that "until i see it in black and white in print that her policy says I can't have after school snacks I'm going to continue to snack"

    She lost it and started yelling in front of parents. Still never wore a **** mask outside...

    Never got sick either btw.


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