Bummed out on this quarantine

[Allroads]

I recently returned from my winter vacation with my new ride. Driven about 150 miles in sunny Florida and the bomb dropped. I had to disassemble my bike so I can pack and fit it in the Thule box. Will rebuild and wait until mid April for the weather to warm up. I also ordered an extra battery which will arrive soon and extend my rides. I was summoned from my government to come home (Montreal) before last Sunday. Now I have been quarantined for 14 days, can't go outside (condo living) and going stir crazy.

 

[rich c]

I’m bummed out a couple hundred people may die. Watching tv and reading is a pretty small sacrifice.

 

[troehrkasse]

Now I have been quarantined for 14 days, can't go outside (condo living) and going stir crazy.

I feel you! I live in a basement studio with almost no natural light. They don't let you go outside to exercise during quarantine? Here in Colorado all outdoor exercise-related activities are allowed as long as social distancing is practiced at all times. I went out for a ride today and saw a great many people on the trails. Everyone was alone or in a group of 2-3 staying far apart which is good to see.

I have an aunt who lives in Puerto Rico and it's totally locked down there, can't even go out to walk her dog. I don't think that taking away fresh air, sunlight, and exercise is going to help people to stay healthy... but then again, I'm not a health expert by any means!

I’m bummed out a couple hundred people may die. Watching tv and reading is a pretty small sacrifice.

That is a fair point, quarantine is not an enjoyable experience but many people do have it a lot worse off.

 

[indianajo]

Apartment living means you only share virus with your neighbors. Small population, but it is shared air supply. Have a HEPA electric powered filter in every unit on the air intake? No? The passengers in the Diamond Princess didn't either. "Isolation" didn't help 400+ of them. I'm glad I own a house.
As a person who catches sometimes 10 cold or flu episodes a year, I think Puerto Rico is not sane. I can date where I got a fever back 3.5 days from when I come down with it. It is never outdoors. Always somebody was standing next to me 3.5 days ago. Had a physician walk through a door I was holding Thursday w/o a mask, came down with a 18 hour fever Sunday afternoon. Thanks, guy. The only other person I got near that day was wearing a mask & rubber gloves when she took my blood for tests.
Rode in the car with the wife 2/5, had a cold lasting 4 days starting 2/9. She "wasn't sick", but had slept 8 hours instead of 4 a couple of nights before. She never has a runny nose; would have been a great Mother to our (didn't happen) children. Nice she lives in her own house, she works in a huge crowd at a govt agency, and no, they are not taking off work.
On the bright side, the FM radio works, water & electricity are fine, UPS and USPS are still delivering. If I ever get done with this stupid income tax (Indiana has delayed "some forms" for 90 days, not telling us which ones) I can continue trying to learn Rhapsody In Blue on the piano. Even if nobody wants to hear me play it. I'm age 69, time to finish some things I started. My Mother bought Rhapsody in Blue in 1953, never made it to play it.

 

[john peck]

The above posts were made in March. How do you feel about it now? Are you angry about the ´executive branch´s ´
handling of the issue?

 

[Art Deco]

The above posts were made in March. How do you feel about it now? Are you angry about the ´executive branch´s ´
handling of the issue?

I wondered why this thread popped up as new.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/content/dam/archaeologyandhistory/2020/03/plague-doctors-reference/plague-doctors-reference-01.adapt.1900.1.jpg

Neither masks nor quarintines are super effective, but maybe the doctors having been using them since the middle ages b/c they work better than anything else we've tried.

 

[BrianK]

The above posts were made in March. How do you feel about it now? Are you angry about the ´executive branch´s ´
handling of the issue?

Hardly. It’s the boneheaded governors and mayors who own this.

 

[rich c]

My comment about a couple hundred deaths would almost be laughable if it wasn't such a tragedy. Over 170,000 Americans have died and around another 1,000 die each day. It's an American tragedy that will continue to kill for a long time. The long term effects that are being seen in so many victims will continue to tax the American medical system for decades. Especially with the elderly that have survived so far. I think the major issue of the Federal Government's failure was not to provide a universal message of safety procedures and direction. But with the equal divide over every single issue in America, that would have been a monumental task. Now with even violent attacks and murder over the mask wearing divide, we take one step closer to civil war.