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Working From Home - Impacts of Coronavirus
Nusa:
--- Quote from: Bud on March 17, 2020, 06:12:05 am ---Flushing the toilet, washing the dishes, hands and body washing, cooking, all takes water.
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Now you're confusing emergency life with normal life. Water is mostly reserved for drinking until the emergency is resolved. One should go into camping mode for an extended outage.
First flush is in the tank, but flushing can often be delayed. It also doesn't require using potable water. Pond/lake/ocean/stream/waterbed water is fine. There are also alternative toilets entirely, such as bucket and plastic bags.
Washing dishes...not important. Let them pile up for the duration or use paper products.
Hand sanitizer where required, some sponge bathing, but forget about regular baths or showers or hair washing. You may not feel as clean as you like, but you won't die.
Cooking is optional, but if one does one saves leftover water for a second use.
rcbuck:
--- Quote ---You take city water supply for granted
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Being over 70 years old and never having seen city water cut off I guess I do take it for granted. And the chances of it being cut off are probably 0.000001%. I don't understand the bottled water syndrome. Tap water is perfectly drinkable and 100% lower in cost. I think the people who buy bottled water have the same mindset as people who pay $5 for a cup of coffee at Starbucks that you can get for $1 at the Circle K store.
If you don't like the taste of tap water, buy a water pitcher that has a replaceable charcoal filter. It is still close to 100% cheaper than bottled water and environmentally friendly. The biggest pollution problem we have is disposable water bottles.
Edit: If tap water is shut off I will just take a couple of 10 gallon jugs over to Lake Pleasant and fill them up.
Sal Ammoniac:
All of Silicon Valley is now officially on lock-down. No one is allowed to travel except for "essential activities", which are narrowly defined to include visits to healthcare services, grocery shopping, and a few other things. All restaurants are closed except for take-out and home delivery. All other non-essential businesses are shut down for the duration. This runs through at least April 7th.
My company is shut down, but the nature of our work means that everyone took home whatever boards and equipment they need to do their jobs and will continue working from home.
Anyone interested in reading the text of the order can find it here: https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/03/16/read-shelter-in-place-order-from-six-bay-area-counties/
rgarito:
All of Florida: ALL bars and nightclubs closed for 30 days. That is gonna be a metric shit-ton of people out of work.
Apparently the feds are talking about a $1000 check being mailed to most Americans, but that wont last long and by the time it gets through all the red tape, it'll be amazing if much is left.
bd139:
SFA here. Business bail outs and direct loans to stop laying people off but absolutely fuck all for anyone else really.
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