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| SiliconWizard:
--- Quote from: coppice on March 19, 2020, 03:43:24 pm --- --- Quote from: SiliconWizard on March 19, 2020, 03:29:05 pm ---Being confined looks a lot like home detention. I doubt anyone likes that. --- End quote --- That depends who you share your home with. I was working from home when we married, and my wife was a student. The flexibility that gave in how I allocated my time was just wonderful for a newly wed. If you aren't getting along well with the others in your house, or you live alone, you may find the opposite result. As with most things, one size does not fit all. --- End quote --- Of course, but that's still exactly like home detention. Sure it's not as bad if you have good company, but the rest is just the same. What does differ currently is that there are (as of yet anyway) no specific time of the day you're allowed to get out and you have no electronic device stuck to you ankle, but the rest is the same (over here at least): you can't get out for long, you must justify the reason, you can't get out too far away from you home... |
| Zero999:
--- Quote from: AndyC_772 on March 19, 2020, 10:57:05 am ---Trouble is, just sitting around the house isn't good for mental or physical health in the longer term - and all signs are that we are in this for the longer term. --- End quote --- Going back to mental health again, I'd say I'm in a fairly high risk group, as I've had mental health problems in the past and nearly ended up in hospital as a result. Exercise does help me with it, but I often find I need something to motivate me to get out of bed in the morning. I got round to mowing the lawn today, but didn't cycle and will try giving it a miss today, partly because I hope resting will help my cough. I do hope to get back to it, before I go back to work. though. |
| james_s:
I'm working from home full time now due to it being mandated by my employer and it doesn't really bother me although it has thrown my routine out of whack and now I have trouble knowing what day of the week it is without looking at my phone. Unfortunately I don't think it really does me any good since my partner manages a 24 hour animal hospital she is working even more hours than normal dealing with the fallout from the Covid panic, thus she is exposed to more people than usual and whatever she is exposed to I am virtually guaranteed to be exposed to. That's life though, the world doesn't stop turning when something happens and wait for everyone to solve the problem. |
| Zero999:
--- Quote from: EEVblog on March 11, 2020, 03:15:30 am --- --- Quote from: Sal Ammoniac on March 11, 2020, 01:47:33 am --- --- Quote from: EEVblog on March 10, 2020, 09:57:43 pm --- --- Quote from: Sal Ammoniac on March 10, 2020, 04:15:32 pm ---Do you have an "unofficial" start of autumn there in Australia like we do here? --- End quote --- Nope, 1st March is Autumn. --- End quote --- Surely that's the unofficial start of autumn there. Astronomically speaking, autumn starts when the sun reaches one of its equinoxes (crosses the celestial equator), which occur twice a year six months apart. The March equinox this year occurs on 19th March at 03:34 UTC. The September equinox happens on 22nd September at 13:15 UTC. --- End quote --- Can't say I've ever heard anyone in Australia use astronomical dates. "1st of December, summer, you bloody ripper!" "1st of June, winter, bummer" And it seems official according to our BOM: http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/glossary/seasons.shtml --- End quote --- https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/meteorological-versus-astronomical-seasons --- Quote from: EEVblog on March 10, 2020, 01:24:29 pm --- --- Quote from: Yansi on March 10, 2020, 12:26:50 pm ---Our country is not that bad yet with the number of those infected. Yet government is starting to take strict actions. All schools in our country now closed. All gatherings of 100 or more people are prohibited. Pretty hefty fines (about $150.000) for people violating quarantine laws. --- End quote --- I'm not sure at what point that is going to happen in Sydney, but I'm sure there is threshold somewhere... There is a decent chance we get away with this for now due to our warmer climate and just days out of summer here. But if that happens, winter would be open season. --- End quote --- No one knows enough to say that yet. Southern China''s climate is pretty similar to the most populated parts of Australia, so I don't think you should be too complacent. For example Sydney and Guangzhou have fairly similar mean temperatures in the coolest months. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney#Climate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangzhou#Climate Never take anything for granted. |
| rdl:
I went back to the grocery this afternoon. They had restocked a bit, but surprisingly low stock on almost everything. There was one bag of frozen chicken wings left so I bought it. I got my prescriptions refilled okay, 90 day supply. And I also got a hair cut. The lady who cuts my hair knows I like what I call a 6 week cut, which I will usually try to push out to 8 weeks before getting it cut again. Today I told her, because the way things are going, I might need a 10 week cut. She just laughed and went to work. My hair is now really short. |
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