Ah, okay I see what you’re saying. I suppose that’s the benefit of scheduling a ton of appointments at a specific clinic, the people come to the supply and not the other way around.
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Stuff like this kinda makes me want to loiter where they’re doing vaccines. Not seriously, but fun to day dream about since I’m going to be in the last group (not that my state is even doing groups really).
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I haven’t even heard how Iowa is doing distribution at all.
I assume healthcare workers are first.
I admit I haven’t paid attention since no matter what the list is, I will be at the bottom of it, but I have no clue how the distribution is happening.
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A good reminder that covid is always lurking close by. We’re even (relative to the rest of the US…) doing pretty well here. But we just found out one of SirBs coworkers, who he was supposed to be on a scene with Tuesday until she cancelled, has covid. Not to mention she lives down the street from us and her whole family is sick. (He would have masked around her and driven separate, but still, same smallish building together for 8 hours wouldn’t have been great, even with the roof burned off lol).
Even if it fucks his utilization numbers, I might have him push to refuse contracts he has to fly for until he can get vaccinated.
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I have been in my little bubble of “there is no virus here” for so long that I don’t really know what has changed.
No more. We are going into a three day lockdown and have mandated masks from 6pm tonight.
This is in response to one known case outside of hotel quarantine. I’m not sure if excessive measures or not but I’d rather not find out we needed to do it after we didn’t so let’s go with it.
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I do like the speed they’ve acted at. Time to panic shop. If I remember correctly from the first time:
- toilet paper
- flour
- seeds
- gym equipment
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Excellent. My bi-annual (It was annual until three year old!) who gives a crap order ships on Monday 
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omg it’s a little hard to wrap my head around that kind of reaction when we have waves hand this kind of reaction. There’s been that many cases in my apartment building.
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Us too. We have 3 cotton masks and I realised I should maybe have filters to go inside them but I don’t know what to buy? I might measure our faces and order some more or check with my mum how to make them, since I have cotton and the ability to sew again?
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OMG, this.
You can also use a coffee filter in the meantime. I used to have a piece of a fancy furnace filter but I lost it.
Not that the US is good at this…but most doctors I know wear 2 layer cotton with no filter when on regular daily activities.
We ended up ordering some, as I just didn’t like my hand sewn ones, but they are super easy to sew and I know my mom prefers the handmade ones. I just pleated an 8x9 rectangle
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And the panic shopping has begun. Ironically or moronically, nary a mask to be seen because the mask rules start at 6pm…
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Yeh apparently it’s over an hour wait at my local supermarket. I can’t. We have masks from when I was in hospital and had to wear them so I’ll just shop after 6pm I guess.
We definitely don’t have enough food here for three days unless we eat plain rice 
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I keep being confused how you don’t all have a bazillion masks already, like we have designated hooks by the door for ours and different ones for different activities. Then I remember…
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It’s one case but it’s the highly infectious variant and I’m guessing the plan is to use the three days to contact trace, test and isolate all contacts, and plan next steps. Australia has managed so far 
to isolate the new variant to hotel quarantine.
And the vaccine is a little way off here as well.
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It truly is wild. There is definitely some push back against the lock downs and slightly differing approaches between states, but on the whole Australia has been very lucky and done a reasonable job at managing it.
I think we’re fairly obedient and trusting of our leaders.
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Yeh we are kind of screwed when it comes to groceries. My plan yesterday was to go to the shops before lunch today but yeh.
I’ve seen the photos of the supermarkets. We aren’t going there today.
We have plenty of long life stuff but no fresh food.
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