Community Chat

[Porcelain]

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@kivah wrote:

Go to the site nextdoor.com. You enter ur zip code and fill out a few pieces of information and u connect with ur neighbors. I've been on this site for over 2 years - and have been helped or given great recommendations. Now - there are many neighbors offering to help seniors or people who can't out to shop.

I'm out of food too - and asked a neighbor who picked up a couple of baguettes and 10 boxes of Amy's frozen food. I have canned vegetables, rice and pasta - so I'll make that as a side.

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@kivah is there a lot of gossip on that site? I wouldn't mind joining but I don't even want to get drawn into any local drama.

[tansy]

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@suzyQ3 wrote:

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@Moonlady wrote:
Anyone who looks to China for a model to which to compare our response, has lost all credibility.

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Well, @Moonlady, they just sent 1,00 ventilators to New York, and that is a credible statement.

The governor must be thrilled to finally get some response somewhere.

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And, hopefully, the Chinese ventilators were not delivered broken and had been maintained.

[Drythe]

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@Greeneyedlady21 wrote:

@Drythe I think that's a great idea, to call the police non emergency number. It would be great if they can help.

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@Greeneyedlady21 

Thank you.  DH and I are volunteering from home with our local Emergency Operations Center.  All non-emergent City, County, and Human Services, including utilities, Animals, Wildlife, Food, Housing, Child welfare, etc. are being routed to a multiline command station and directed / followed-up with as appropriate.

We are truly blessed to have participated in the long-term planning and implementation of a quilt that will help shelter those in our area.  I know this can work; as a Public Health Professional, the disaster that has been allowed to fall on America with virtually no warning, breaks my heart.  

Be Well.

[kivah]

There's no drama on my site. If a neighbor or two says something annoying or rude - I "MUTE THEM." You just click the down arrow on the right side of their name - and click.

This site is also my life-line since most of the time, I'm alone.

Always be POSITIVE!!!!

[sunshine45]

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@Porcelain wrote:

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@kivah wrote:

Go to the site nextdoor.com. You enter ur zip code and fill out a few pieces of information and u connect with ur neighbors. I've been on this site for over 2 years - and have been helped or given great recommendations. Now - there are many neighbors offering to help seniors or people who can't out to shop.

I'm out of food too - and asked a neighbor who picked up a couple of baguettes and 10 boxes of Amy's frozen food. I have canned vegetables, rice and pasta - so I'll make that as a side.

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@kivah is there a lot of gossip on that site? I wouldn't mind joining but I don't even want to get drawn into any local drama.

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yes, @Porcelain , there CAN be lots of drama and some fighting. i would say for the most part, it is a wonderful resource and source of local helpful tips and tricks.

[Snoopp]

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@josie wrote:

I ordered 33 items through Instacart yesterday and received 5....this doesn't even begin to show the first sign of getting better, if you do find domething somewhere the cost has tripled it is starting to get to me since I'm almost 70, can't get out, retired and a widow. What are we suppose to do...should we start buying food on QVC because we can't get it in the grocery stores?

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@josie @Your town might have an office of emergency management.  Try calling them and they may be able to offer you help with shopping.  Hope this helps.

[Sooner]

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@stevieb wrote:

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@Sooner wrote:

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@stevieb wrote:

No food, no Kleenex, no toilet paper, no cleaning products, no masks... Instead of our leaders at all levels rattling on and on about the medical aspects of the situation, which clearly they, nor the supposed medical experts, have a clue how to contain or eliminate, some of them really should, by now, have turned their attention to the fact that the population needs food and essentials. Whenever I see someone waxing eloquent about this great land of ours, I feel compelled to point out that no aspect of this crisis has been or is being handled at all well and in fact, others have done a better job. When something 'unprecedented' happens, we require creative solutions and we're not seeing any. We've essentially been relegatded to living in a 3rd world country.

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@stevieb Yes.  A pandemic tends to level to playing field to what is normal life in the 3d world.  Most of the 1st world has been shut down.  And in Europe, countries are a lot smaller and populations not as scattered or as large as the US. 

Nobody expected this or planned for it.  No country that I am aware of was prepaired for it.  So I think in light of everything our infrastructure is still at work--we have water, light, electricity and food and necessities, so in light of everything we are blessed. 

Do we have what we want exactly? No.  But we are trying to help those most affected, see that nobody starves, and for the most part pull together to get things done and food to people.  

It is an unprecedented global disaster, and considering I am not going to seond guess anything. 

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Different perspectives @Sooner. We're allowed... It's an oversimplification to belittle or to imply those who see this as more than a mere 'incovenience' are somehow unreasonable... In too many instances, it's not a matter of moaning about forgoing what we 'want', which we might all agree is unreasonable right now, but of not having what we need. There's a pretty big difference and as you see here, there are people who do not have adequate food, can't seem to find it and who also don't have other necessities. I too am seeing neighbors helping neighbors, which is heartening, but what I'm not seeing is any local, regional or national authority taking control and doing much of anything except telling us to wash our hands, keep our distance and stay in 'if we can', knowing full well that for most of us, if we want to eat, we can't... Agreed, a disaster tends to level the playing field, but some of us will have to be excused for thinking the supposedly 'best and brightest' would have had some kind of a game plan for disaster. Clearly we don't... And when it gets right down to it, yes we are a large country with a large population, but other larger countries with larger populations don't appear to be quite as continually devastated as are we...

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@stevieb Really?  And what would those countries be? 

I think one of the bigget problems is that we depend too much on the government and have been going down that path a long time.  After all, there is only so much we can expect or they can do when the whole country is shut down.  Who plans for that?  I don't know of any country who does.

[BrandiDavis]

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@Sooner wrote:

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@stevieb wrote:

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@Sooner wrote:

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@stevieb wrote:

No food, no Kleenex, no toilet paper, no cleaning products, no masks... Instead of our leaders at all levels rattling on and on about the medical aspects of the situation, which clearly they, nor the supposed medical experts, have a clue how to contain or eliminate, some of them really should, by now, have turned their attention to the fact that the population needs food and essentials. Whenever I see someone waxing eloquent about this great land of ours, I feel compelled to point out that no aspect of this crisis has been or is being handled at all well and in fact, others have done a better job. When something 'unprecedented' happens, we require creative solutions and we're not seeing any. We've essentially been relegatded to living in a 3rd world country.

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@stevieb Yes.  A pandemic tends to level to playing field to what is normal life in the 3d world.  Most of the 1st world has been shut down.  And in Europe, countries are a lot smaller and populations not as scattered or as large as the US. 

Nobody expected this or planned for it.  No country that I am aware of was prepaired for it.  So I think in light of everything our infrastructure is still at work--we have water, light, electricity and food and necessities, so in light of everything we are blessed. 

Do we have what we want exactly? No.  But we are trying to help those most affected, see that nobody starves, and for the most part pull together to get things done and food to people.  

It is an unprecedented global disaster, and considering I am not going to seond guess anything. 

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Different perspectives @Sooner. We're allowed... It's an oversimplification to belittle or to imply those who see this as more than a mere 'incovenience' are somehow unreasonable... In too many instances, it's not a matter of moaning about forgoing what we 'want', which we might all agree is unreasonable right now, but of not having what we need. There's a pretty big difference and as you see here, there are people who do not have adequate food, can't seem to find it and who also don't have other necessities. I too am seeing neighbors helping neighbors, which is heartening, but what I'm not seeing is any local, regional or national authority taking control and doing much of anything except telling us to wash our hands, keep our distance and stay in 'if we can', knowing full well that for most of us, if we want to eat, we can't... Agreed, a disaster tends to level the playing field, but some of us will have to be excused for thinking the supposedly 'best and brightest' would have had some kind of a game plan for disaster. Clearly we don't... And when it gets right down to it, yes we are a large country with a large population, but other larger countries with larger populations don't appear to be quite as continually devastated as are we...

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@stevieb Really?  And what would those countries be? 

I think one of the bigget problems is that we depend too much on the government and have been going down that path a long time.  After all, there is only so much we can expect or they can do when the whole country is shut down.  Who plans for that?  I don't know of any country who does.

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@Sooner  I think you nailed it with that statement!! I truly hope this will teach us that we simply cannot do that. I mean yes to some extent they should help, but it shouldn't be entirely up to them to 'figure it out" so to speak.

[CalminHeart]

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@josie wrote:

I ordered 33 items through Instacart yesterday and received 5....this doesn't even begin to show the first sign of getting better, if you do find domething somewhere the cost has tripled it is starting to get to me since I'm almost 70, can't get out, retired and a widow. What are we suppose to do...should we start buying food on QVC because we can't get it in the grocery stores?

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Check with local grocery stores about delivery.  My grocery store is now delivering free to those of us over 60 or at higher risk.   I ordered groceries on Friday and they'll be delivered today.  I received my receipt by email this morning and they had everything I ordered.  The only exception was that they substituted the brand of toilet paper.  

[tototwo]

@CalminHeart - you have toilet paper?!?!? I don't care what brand it is, we just want some!  We are also out of paper towels. Our stores order it, but don't receive it. Yes, I've asked.

I place pick-up orders at my supermarket, but only receive a fraction of what we ordered.  .

How can this happen in the good ol' USA?