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COVID19-What's Going On in Your Community?

Sean_Miller

Curious to hear directly from folks around the world, what's the response in your community to the COVID19 crisis?

 

Here is my status:

  • Just east of St. Louis Missouri in Illinois.  Population 30,000.
  • All schools closed
  • All restaurants closed with exception of curbside, online orders and fast food drive throughs
  • All small businesses not food or essentials related are closed
  • Must stay sheltered in place at home
  • Gas stations and grocery stores are still open
  • To drive around, you are to have a formal permit provided by your employer to print and put in your vehicle windshield or be going to a grocery store
  • Essential industry like refining has remote workers - site staffing is cut to minimum per Process Safety Management policy
  • We have had one case reported in the community, but several in St. Louis.  One death.
  • Underlying concern across the United States is not sufficient ICU beds and ventilators should we see a surge like Italy (who actually has a better bed/1000 residents ratio)

 

 

See ya',

Sean

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  • In South West Scotland,

     

    • Schools closed (yesterday was last day) except for special needs children and kids of essential workers.
    • Universities also closed
    • Pubs, cafes, restaurants, clubs, gyms all closed (but not take-aways).
    • Over 70s advised to self isolate for next 2 weeks (expected to change to longer)
    • Work at home if you can
    • Shops near me recovering form panic buying - loo rolls available this morning.
    • Massive government effort in terms of paying 80% of laid off people's wages and all sorts of grants, tax let-offs for business - exact details not clear yet. Lots of other economic measures too.

     

    I'm not criticising the lack of perfect clarity - this is a huge demand on government and it's bound to take little while to sort all the details. I think I'll get some sort of grant to keep the business going but it's not quite clear how I get it yet.

     

    MK

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  • In South West Scotland,

     

    • Schools closed (yesterday was last day) except for special needs children and kids of essential workers.
    • Universities also closed
    • Pubs, cafes, restaurants, clubs, gyms all closed (but not take-aways).
    • Over 70s advised to self isolate for next 2 weeks (expected to change to longer)
    • Work at home if you can
    • Shops near me recovering form panic buying - loo rolls available this morning.
    • Massive government effort in terms of paying 80% of laid off people's wages and all sorts of grants, tax let-offs for business - exact details not clear yet. Lots of other economic measures too.

     

    I'm not criticising the lack of perfect clarity - this is a huge demand on government and it's bound to take little while to sort all the details. I think I'll get some sort of grant to keep the business going but it's not quite clear how I get it yet.

     

    MK

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  • in reply to michaelkellett

    Similar here down the road in North West England.

     

    - This last week of university teaching moved to on-line delivery.

    - Most university staff now working from home, so mass effort to get people equipped for remote working.

    - Supermarket panic buying getting worse ( they are now even panic buying tins of haggis ! ). Still no toilet rolls, lots of empty shelves - about half of my usual weekly shop was out of stock.

    - Social distancing measures not proving popular with the younger generation - Police last night had to break up around 130x 14-18 year olds gathered in the local park.

    - Roads are a lot quieter. Campus is like a ghost town.

    - Not aware of any local confirmed cases of COVID-19 as yet.

  • in reply to michaelkellett

    In Belgium easy to explain, Michael. Total lockdown and by yesterday 3 pm all borders are closed in and out excluding transports and few other things. The main airport is closed and here people seem almost disciplined. Different than Italy where all are crazy and the challenge is to avoid the controls, stay in parks, parties, music, and "movida". A few less in Spain where the situation is similar. It seems that in Gent where I live now there are not cases, at least for now.

    I have ordered a couple of days ago a component from Farnell Uk but I have not yet received the shipment notification. I supposed it will arrive Monday. In the meantime, I got a UPS notification from US (Chicago image ) that something is coming here. The expected delivery time is as usual.

     

    Enrico