Community wellbeing check

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JeffinNZ posted this 29 March 2020

Calling all forums users:

How are you all doing?  What is your local situation?  Need any help?  Whatcha upta?

Here in New Zealand we are on  nationwide lockdown for the next 4 weeks.  I am working from home; currently still employed.  My wife Sheryl is a nurse and going to work as 'usual' doing long hours.  Schools closed of course so my girls are doing learning from home.  We as a nation have today had our first death from the bug and 450 odd cases. 

In spare time I am keeping my vegetable garden going and moving into the autumn phase in the greenhouse so as to keep supplies up for the family.  Cleaning, home maintenance, and soon loading and gun cleaning.  Allowed out for a run around the suburbs (did 11km yesterday).  The city is eerily quiet.  So quiet I didn't like to fire up the leaf vac yesterday as it would have disturbed the peace.  Even the broom was loud.  Strange times indeed. 

 

Cheers from New Zealand

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sergeant69 posted this 11 July 2020

thanks

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OU812 posted this 10 July 2020

I hope your daughter gets well soon. I know a guy that had stage 4 throat cancer and he beat it.

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sergeant69 posted this 09 July 2020

we live in south central texas on 350 acres w/a gun range 3 of us built. if i want to social distance i have to drive into town. being isolated is not a problem for me. but....my daughter, in austin, has stage 4 cancer so her kids, 7 and 9, come stay with us a lot. it is driving my grandaughter crazy. the only reason she agrees to go to school is to socialize. her grades etc mean nothing. shes always full of what happened at lunch, on the playground etc etc. who said what, whos her friend this week, etc. she is really hurting being away from that. we take them "treasure hunting" looking for broken bottles, cups, etc on 2 old homesteads, driving lessons in the kawasaki mule, learning how to track animals, and so forth. but she is really getting depressed w/out her friends around. her b day is july 31st and it will be only her uncles and her mom and us. no kids. apparently in austin  even if a kid is wearing a mask and 6 ft away its a no-no. sheep. the 7 yr old grandson is just happy to be with me loading ammo. but shes getting more depressed by the week.  if i have to be in one more play i'm gonna shoot myself!

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Ken Campbell Iowa posted this 08 June 2020

remember the old chinese curse :: " may you have an interesting life " ...

... man !  we must have really pissed off some old chinese guy !!  ...


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when i was a kid here in the cheap seats we killed squirrels and rabbits with throwing rocks.

you might start collecting a good supply of small rocks ... sorta round and about 2 inches in diameter work best ...

but don't get too good at it ... or your liberal neighbors will come and take your unfair rocks ... then you will all starve equally ...

ken

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max503 posted this 08 June 2020

I turned 65 in February and am considering retirement.  When the virus thing started in April I took a 2 week paid self-quarantine, went back to work for a week, then have been on a voluntary paid furlough since.  At my age I didn't want to expose myself or the wife to the virus.  My job exposes me to a lot of people.  Several of my coworkers have been infected.

This is the first time I've ever been on unemployment, so at my age I figure I deserve it.   With the $600 bonus I'm making more by not working than if I had stayed on.  Those of us who took furlough can't fathom why other people didn't take it.  I'm not sure if I'll go back to work when they call us to return.

That said, I've been doing a lot of shooting and fishing.  One of my clubs closed for a month but one was unaffected.   I'll continue to ride this out and make my decision about work when the time comes.  

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Brodie posted this 08 June 2020

Well, we're still alive and kicking here in N AZ.  We are pretty lucky in that we don't have contact with very many people, especially those from large urban areas, and we live outside of town.  Don't go in except for food runs, parts, and medical appointments.

I have basically been locked down since Feb.21 when I got home after my final shoulder surgery.  Now, if the wind would just lay down I could go hunt jack rabbits for the great dane.  He is the only picky eating dog I have ever seen, weighed only 78 lbs. when turned over to Dane Angels.  The D.A. managed to put twenty lbs on him, and since last August my wife has gotten him up to 125.  Almost did the same for our lab, pointer mix when she got into his food.  She pushes that Dane (Shilo) around like you won't believe.  I hope you are all doing well in this pandemic, and like has been said:"it will have to run its course".  Unfortunately, that means it will be around until we get a good vaccine for it.  Viruses are harder to kill than Cock Roaches.

B.E.Brickey

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RicinYakima posted this 07 June 2020

You are both right, RD and John. It will run its course, nobody left to infect, but we can stretch it out to kill fewer of us old folks. Sweden tried the "herd immunity" concept and it failed with 300% higher deaths and with only 29% of the people with immunity it is still expanding. Living in interesting times.

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Tom Acheson posted this 07 June 2020

Here in Minnesota, it's been an incremental approach (kind of like the gun control mindset). No groups, then groups of 10 and just recently groups of 25. So I guess its better than other parts of the country. But we are a ways from total relaxation and maybe that never happens, who knows.

With the (25) group rule we can now have CBA matches of good attendance levels.

Yet to be seen is the impact of the large protest crowds and virus case growth. Will be interesting. That jury is still out.

Tom

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John Alexander posted this 07 June 2020

RD is absolutely right.  The virus is going to run its course.

That doesn't imply that we are totally helpless like a piece of driftwood.

As in any situation that involves danger we can either improve our odds or make them worse.  In this case if we choose to make them worse, it isn't just our business but we are choosing to degrade the odds of others and the community in general.  Just as with gun safety, it is a matter of responsibility as well self preservation.

John

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R. Dupraz posted this 07 June 2020

The one great truth amongst all the bovine scafola is that the virus is going to run its course no matter what. 

 

R.

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John Alexander posted this 07 June 2020

I think a lot of people, including myself, were like Boschloper in thinking of the pandemic and the shutdowns as something for a few weeks. I don't know why I assumed that since early on we were told that it would take at least 18 months to develop a vaccine and there was no cure or even effective treatment.  

The experts say that the only thing that could shorten the outbreak right away is for the virus to suddenly mutate to a less deadly form.  Unfortunately it could mutate to a more deadly form instead.  That's what the Spanish Flue did in 1918. The virus in the fall of 1918 was far deadlier than the version of the Spring before.

Yogi Berra's famous "it ain't over till it's over" applies.  A week ago there were 17 states where the infection rate was going up and now there are 21 including my state.  Over the last week  Covid 19 has killed 4 to 5 jetliners full of passengers each day.

Continue to play it safe and if you meet someone who doesn't care if he infects you by not wearing a mask in public -- steer clear.

John 

 

 

 

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Shopdog posted this 07 June 2020

Casting,loading,shooting,hunting. Not much changed at all.

Got a sweet 2 hole Lyman 358156 GC used off Ebay. Price wasn't cheap but was equitable. Cast yesterday with it for the first time. Dreamboat mould,warmed in the little,dbl mould oven I made a cpl months ago....whilst pot got up to temp. First pour was deadnuts as well as the last.

Got a Saeco 245-85 that was held up about 3 months through Midway. Part backorder,part Covid closures. It's going through some pre cast cleaning,nothing to write about. Looking forward to this one. Minty old R700V 6mmR,walnut/blue from around 1980. Very nice 6-18 5star Redfield on top. Shoots bugholes with 95g RCBS and starting book loads of 4759. The Saeco looks to be a touch more "programmable",haha meaning I can play around with some of the dimensions a little easier than the RCBS and get the velocity up into varmint blasting figures.

Still have right much 4759 but ever since they discontinued it,have been using other powders. Varget and H4895 for JB velocity in several chamberings,and gone through a bunch of H4198 on mid level loads. The 223 and 22-250's love this stuff with highly tuned bullets.

Painted our racebike and working on painting the BMW(bike). Using some pretty "nasty" 2k paints(ISO),along with huffing lead fumes and general grease under the finger nails,not terribly concerned with Covid germs,if you know what I mean.

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Bud Hyett posted this 07 June 2020

Like Ric, staying home. Trips are for doctor, groceries, pharmacy, and gas. Some doctor visits are on the web, pioneering Global Collaboration two decades ago pays off now. I'm being very careful, with chemotherapy the risk becomes almost  incalculable.

Most of the people my age are doing the same. Washington state was one of the first hit due to the ports and foreign trade from China. This allowed the virus to spread before people understood the implications. 

Tomorrow is annealing brass, Monday is casting, Tuesday is sizing, ad infinitium  

The virus is part of our lives, it is not all of our lives.

Farm boy from Illinois, living in the magical Pacific Northwest

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RicinYakima posted this 07 June 2020

We are on 14 weeks of lock down. Drive through fast food, no barbers, so social contacts, no churches, nada. We have an R-naught of 2.2 and the highest rate of virus on the west coast and highest percentage of deaths for our county. It is the size of Connecticut with a population of 240,000.

We are both long retired, so it isn't so bad for us, but miss the kids and grandkids badly. I get out once a week at 7:00 AM to get groceries, but other than that, growing best roses of my life.

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Boschloper posted this 07 June 2020

I thought I would re-start this one.  Here in New Hampshire things are starting to open back up. I had no idea it would go on this long. The wife and I were able to have breakfast at a restaurant the other day (outside seating), it was very nice. I have worked from home for 11 weeks now, and it looks like it will go on for 3 more. 

How is everyone holding up?

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Ross Smith posted this 12 April 2020

I'd hold out for some metal.

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Qc Pistolero posted this 11 April 2020

Up here in Quebec,Canada,things are horrible.They closed all shooting ranges.All my friends and I were thinking they'd ask to contribute by shooting all them covid things with our 38-55 and 45-70(well,didn't they say that it is a large virus...so it needs large caliber no?).But we are running into a major problem;we can't go out at the range to kill those virusses and all my friends and I are running out of empty brass to reload.What are we gonna do if we can't empty out these shells?

Joking aside,we are doing well.As far as I'm concerned,being retired for almost 5 years,the local drugstore asked me to help out for deliveries since their regular delivery boy is over 70 and forced into preventive confinement.so I was volunteered to deliver pills;going back to work after almost 5 years of easy life ain't funny.But it is a tough job and somebody's got to do it!Just wondering if I'll get a medal for this?

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Ross Smith posted this 11 April 2020

So far the county where I live in central Utah still has no cases, but. Like Shuz I'm glad I'm retired. We are still advised to not socialize etc. Keep the faith. I'm caught up on casting bullets and tying flies.

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tony1960 posted this 09 April 2020

Hey guys, just for info.

 

https://annals.org/aim/fullarticle/2764367/effectiveness-surgical-cotton-masks-blocking-sars-cov-2-controlled-comparison?searchresult=1  

stay safe wherever you are.

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Shuz posted this 08 April 2020

Since my wife and I are retired, the stay at home mandate has not affected us all that much. I am very fortunate to have a shooting range here on my property where I live, so I have been doing more shooting now than ever because of the shutdown. .

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