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Hopalong:
Damn. That is difficult, Tupp.
I knew his diet was particular but not the details.
I wonder if anybody at Dance Church might know of a way of getting access to a quarter of a co-op share, for regular eggs and potatoes?
It's probably less available where you are than here, surrounded by countryside.
Hope it goes more easily next time. It's a shame that for you for whom access is essential (no comparison to foodies or that I was rambling about) ... it's so difficult. And the minimal storage space you have is one more piece of the unfairness. Grrr.
Hugs and hope for help for you,
Hops
Twoapenny:
--- Quote from: Hopalong on May 07, 2020, 02:20:03 PM ---Damn. That is difficult, Tupp.
I knew his diet was particular but not the details.
I wonder if anybody at Dance Church might know of a way of getting access to a quarter of a co-op share, for regular eggs and potatoes?
It's probably less available where you are than here, surrounded by countryside.
Hope it goes more easily next time. It's a shame that for you for whom access is essential (no comparison to foodies or that I was rambling about) ... it's so difficult. And the minimal storage space you have is one more piece of the unfairness. Grrr.
Hugs and hope for help for you,
Hops
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Ah Dance Church is a two hour drive away so they're not close enough to do anything practical. I think it's just the shortages in general making things difficult - delivery slots are very limited so we can only book one or two days before at most. You're restricted to no more than 3 of each item (which makes stocking up harder) and you can only book once a week because they're so swamped at the moment (and this is for vulnerable customers, everyone else is being asked to do click and collect). Then you only get told on the day if they haven't got something you ordered and I can't order anywhere else because nowhere's accepting new customers (again because it's so busy). Then there are shortages in general - luckily I did have a bit of fish in the freezer as I'd bought some on special offer but there are shortages because the fishermen haven't been going out. Potatoes aren't too bad, they just tend to have sold out by late evening. Eggs we've been alright with, generally speaking, and then it's just bits for me. I've got rice, pasta, lentils and that sort of thing but then it's having something to go with it as well. It's just the logistics I think, just more complicated than it used to be and still haven't found a rhythm or a method that ticks all the boxes yet. We'll get there eventually! Still much more fortunate than a lot of people, I just wish the public information being given out was factually based and not constantly being played down. The day we reached the giddy heights of highest death toll in Europe most of the papers printed a story about one of the science advisors being caught with his married lover on the front pages. I know which of the two stories I think is more useful to people. Anyway, I got enough in for dinner, we've had dinner now and son is upstairs with his belly full so we're all good :) xx
Twoapenny:
Aw, well done for getting the form filled in, CB, those things are such big humps in the road but once you're over them they often aren't as bad as you think they will be. I hope getting the health insurance is relatively straight forward for you.
Yep, food shopping has been crazy here since all this started, there was no plan in place and nothing was organised. We were lucky that we had enough in for a while when it first started and I managed to get things we needed at the corner shop (little place that had just enough in to cover us for a couple of days). But people panic bought like mad so the shops were empty really fast and you couldn't get an online delivery slot anywhere for love nor money. The government sent out lists of people with disabilities and health problems to all the supermarkets and luckily we were on one so we got organised with that one supermarket but it means you can't get a supermarket delivery from anywhere else. There are local shops doing deliveries but with the minimum spend at each one I would have to order a heap of stuff I don't need just to get one or two bits that I do. I've very little storage space so lots in the freezer and cupboards is difficult and son has his food issues which means substitutes for him is just no. Even down to squash (I don't know if you call it that there - you know the juice drink that you dilute? That's what I mean); there's only one he can drink that doesn't have an adverse effect on him because they put so much crap in things like that. I put his vitamin supplements in with the juice so if there's no juice he doesn't get his vits because he can't manage them without the juice taste to cover them up. He will drink water but not as much and if he gets dehydrated it increases his risk of a seizure. His meds I put in chocolate soya milk (intolerant to dairy and he can't take the meds off a spoon because the taste makes him vomit). So it's just all those multiple things around something as simple as ordering a couple of bottles of something and then they send me manky bananas and wrinkly oranges as well along with a bit of limp broccoli lol, I know lots of people are going without and we're lucky to have what we've got but you'd think they'd have sorted things out better than this. Someone did point out to me that it's a Bank Holiday here tomorrow so that would be one reason for the shop being busy this afternoon. We're good now until next week anyway so we'll be home, home, home and going nowhere else :)
Good luck with the cleaning, bed bugs would give me the heebie geebies as well! Lol xx
Twoapenny:
Okay I may have found a solution to the veggie and son friendly products problem; the local farm shop can't deliver, but I can either email an order to them and they will box up for me to collect (twice a week) or I can go there and hand someone the list at the door, they'll get everything and bring it out to me. It's a bit further to walk so means leaving son home on his own for longer which I'm a bit nervous about but equally I am nervous about the close proximity to others at the supermarket so I think the farm shop is a better bet. Between that and the supermarket delivery I should be able to get everything we need, I think, without having to go to the supermarket again (which will be a blessed relief). Will have to do some meal planning over the weekend and then get a list to them on Monday, I think.
sKePTiKal:
And life is going on like normal around here; cases are low - we're a very rural state of course; neighbors separated by miles in some cases - per testing, the negative cases outnumber the positive (and I know 4 were NYS campers that brought it with them) - and the recovered cases outnumber the positives. There have been 50-51 deaths out of 1.8 million people.
Governor has a common-sense plan for getting people back to work - phased in, so that things can be halted or reversed if there is a sudden spike in illnesses/pos tests. Hospitals and clinics are back to operation for the full range of issues again. But he didn't turn the state into ghost-towns in the first place. Our farmers, orchardists, construction trades were all considered "essential" - and so are the places that supply them.
Across the mountain, it's more urban - but even so, I saw plenty of people not masked. Even store employees. There's a higher percentage of masks there to be seen - but since a mask obliterates half the facial cues for interaction and communication, people are really "over" feeling unnecessarily isolated & divided. It's very easy to misinterpret emotional information from just eyes above a mask.
Large urban areas are likely to be the last to finally get their caseloads down to a small, managable number. But that shouldn't prevent the people who AREN'T living in those areas to get back to production supplying the needs for those cities. And of course, as ever - people who want to continue to self-isolate, wear masks, maintain a bigger "personal space" - are always free to do so. There isn't the overarching public health concern about education, information or quarantine for healthy people instead of the smaller number of sick anymore. The state needs to withdraw back into it's regular boundaries and let individuals do as they like.
It's supposed to still be a free country, right?
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