How are you dealing with Covid-19 (Novel Coronavirus) ?

[Jhn]

@addy1 Took me a second to realize the puppy was real on the first pic. Cute little guy.

 

[addy1]

He is a cutie, won't keep the color. Yorkies change their colors about every 3 years.

At 16 weeks or so

recent

 

[sissy]

he is so darn cute ,i know what you mean as when I got peanut .He kept getting under the sofa and to this day having a black chihuahua is hard as heck since it is hard to see or find him in the dark .He has gotten bigger so can't get under the sofa but can get uder the recliners yet .He will hide and when you sit down he will put his paw out and touch your feet and scare you .Never had a yorkie but funny how missy has gotten more grey than the white she was when you first got her .More of her brown has sort of left her also .Be interesting to see what happens with the new puppies colors .Have you picked out a name yet or are you waiting to see what his personality is like to give him a name .

 

[Tula]

So excited! Got a notice my plants from Trickers will be delivered tomorrow !!!!!!

 

[CometKeith]

I'm sorry for your friends @sissy - there's no question this is a very real virus that is very hard on some people. Who knows why? I was just talking to my husband the other night about the number of related people who we hear react badly to the virus - like your friend and her twin sons which is just too much for any mother to have to bear. I wonder if there's a genetic component to how your body handles getting COVID. Maybe someday, when the dust settles, that will all become clear.

Is it political to say that I'm afraid I may lose my job? Is it political to say I fear that will happen because the governor of my state is a tyrant who is acting in his own self interest and that of his party? Is it political for @CometKeith to say he hopes he doesn't lose his investments? I don't know how you can discuss this issue without discussing the politics behind these decisions that are being made, when ALL the decisions are being made by politicians. We have health people making policy decisions and politicians making health decisions. That’s upside down.

There should be middle ground. There should be those who say "I'll stay home because I can't risk getting this" and those who say "I need to work, I'm ready to go back". But the narratives have become those who want to stay isolated are cry babies and those who want to go to work just want to see more people dead. And they take it a step further and claim "oh you just want to get a hair cut or go out to eat" - not go to work to support your family.

It doesn't have to be either/or. I don't want to see anyone dead - but I also don't want to lose my home that I've worked to pay for for 30 years, my income, my health insurance, my savings, a future for my own kids and grandkids... we aren't going to have a country left if this continues.

And @CometKeith i know you’re suggesting that my niece wasn’t reporting tips, which is common but not true in her case. She worked for a major chain and they are very clear on their reporting rules. People don’t seem to understand that the support systems aren’t working like they normally do. My co-worker has parents who own and drive a cab for a living for 30 years - she drives days, him nights. They raised their family in Chicago driving a cab. They both applied for unemployment and were told their benefit was zero. Nothing. The money just isn’t there.

Hi Lisa. I agree of course there has to be a middle ground. People need to work and receive income and also we don't want the whole economy to got to pot either from which point it would be either impossible or a long time to recover. My wife and I have been thinking that I could retire soon if I wanted and that's why I mentioned our investments. We would be devastated to lose 30-50% of everything we have saved if the economy took a serious downturn. Then retirement would be off the table for a much longer time. Everyone has an economic stake in this thing as well as concern for safety. I understand that some young people like your niece are suffering too and may be digging an financial hole that will be tough to recover from. I'm sorry for that and hopefully she will get through this okay. I myself suffered a lot when the housing crises happened in 2008-09 and it was very tough to stay positive and come back from that. There was no government assistance for real estate developers and builders and it was an unbelievably tough situation. The only things we received back then were letters from attorneys for banks and investors demanding they get paid. Having lost so much once already already I couldn't bear to see that happen again. I think the thing people may be forgetting is actually how bad Covid 19 was both in Italy and New York. Thank God it wasn't that bad anywhere else in the US, but it could have happened. Maybe some governors overreacted but they tried to error on the side of caution so those situations wouldn't get repeated. From what I understand almost all the States will be starting to open up more within the next week. Hopefully that goes smoothly and things get better for everyone as quickly as possible.

 

[addy1]

Never had a yorkie but funny how missy has gotten more grey than the white she was when you first got her .More of her brown has sort of left her also .Be interesting to see what happens with the new puppies colors .Have you picked out a name yet or are you waiting to see what his personality is like to give him a name .

The breeder likes having names for the pups, she likes to call them by their name the entire time she has them. We named him lil bear. he acts like a tough lil bear when we watch him play with his sister.
We bought a baby play pen for him, it will be his home if we can't have eyes on him. Missy never chewed anything, we got her at 16 weeks. We had a crib for her whenever we had to leave her alone. She spelt with us from the first night we brought her home.
Quite often we have to leave i.e. to work the bees, a very seldom shopping trip, so for his safety he will have a space to be in.

Her skin went from pink (when she was white as a puppy) to gray/black spotted,

Then her skin started turning gray, which started blending in the black gray spots. And the gray black on her face has turned browner.
I had a yorkie in AZ born coal black, when I got her at 18 months she was pure white. She stayed pure white her entire life.

 

[addy1]

We would be devastated to lose 30-50% of everything we have saved if the economy took a serious downturn.

I can totally understand that! Been there done that.

That happened to me in 08 my 403/401 went down the hole, more than 50% gone. My house value went down by 75%, it took 6 years to come back to around 60% of the value before the crash. The condo some dummy bought in FL, loss 80% of its value, just now came up to 2/3's of what I paid for it, the tenants just bought it loss of 130k.
The rentals my hubby bought, before me, all crashed in 08, one we had to pay to sale, one we broke even.
Our properties were in the worse hit states. We have great tax write offs!

I had to learn to let it go, between hubbies retirement, my financial advisor (he put what I had left in very safe funds) we are doing ok. Luckily our funds we have are in non stock market driven safe for old farts funds.

 

[bagsmom]

@addy1 - THAT DOGGY!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[addy1]

@addy1 - THAT DOGGY!!!!!!!!!!!

She is the boss............... bosses us around a lot. She has a very strong personality. Will come over stand on my knees and stare over the top of the lappy until I move it so she can lay down. Demands interaction if we are busy and have not paid enough attention to her. on and on she bosses with her eyes , soft barks , her ears say a lot.

 

[sissy]

my pickles at first bossed and bullied the puppy but now peanut gets even since he got bigger and bullies pickles .Puddles and peewee could care less about peanut and if he gets out of hand one growl from them and peanut backs down .I never knew yorkies changed color like that .Peanut wants love all the time and wants to go with me everywhere ,but has to learn he can't .For some strange reason dogs boss us around but win our hearts over .My hubby was mad I got peanut but now spoils him rotten and when he gets up in the morning peanut goes crazy for him .Peanut adores him also

 

[addy1]

The breeder is giving us some pointers on acceptance of the puppy. This has been Missy's house since 13 so we will take our time and introduce them correctly. She did ok with my nieces dog, but that dog was huge compared to her. A poodle, lab mix. She does growl at every dog we see, driving walking etc.

Getting a pup was hubbies idea, of course I jumped on it! Looked for rescues first, but the ones I found all needed a only dog home. He is not cheap, but with yorkies your best bet is a good breeder, they ow can have a lot of genetic issues. Mainly from inbreeding to make them smaller, craigslist type breeders.

 

[Lisak1]

@CometKeith While all the other states are working toward re-opening, our governor passed another extension to his emergency order last Friday which the legislature (finally back in session today - for a whopping THREE DAYS) will now try to pass into law. We will remain on lockdown for an additional 150 days if it doesn't get blocked by the JCAR - a committee of 12. He has included wording that will allow the health department to impose fines and/or jail time up to 364 days for anyone who defies his orders and opens a business. He included the ability to impose fines or jail time for anyone who posts anything on social media that he finds goes counter to anything he determines to be true in his edict. So I may need to start a Go Fund Me to raise bail money here soon.

As of yesterday, here's where we stand in relation to the rest of the US. We are even more locked down than NY - and we all know what happened there. Good thing our state is in such great financial state. Oh, but it'll all be fixed in November when he gets his graduated income tax plan passed. Although I don't know who he thinks will be PAYING taxes, if no one is working.

 

[addy1]

That sucks lisa. Our governor has been reasonable about all this mess. We still have a few counties on lock down but they are hot spots. I just hope people practice some safety. So far pictures of bars, restaurants, beaches, not seeing a lot of common sense.

He included the ability to impose fines or jail time for anyone who posts anything on social media that he finds goes counter to anything he determines to be true in his edict. So I may need to start a Go Fund Me to raise bail money here soon.

We won't tell!

 

[Lisak1]

It's incredibly hard on my town - we are an easy drive to the WI border. Our local merchants struggle to entice people to shop locally as it is, because our sales tax is higher. But now, between online shopping and Wisconsin being open for business, they are dying on the vine. But we have a Menards and a Walmart in town that are both open and bustling - hundreds of people pass through their doors daily. Where are all the infections that should be happening as a result of all that human interaction? Not a single one.

And even more ironic - our schools have been shut down since March 13 for the "safety of our students" but I can walk through those same stores and see dozens of our students who now work there every day. So they can't go to school... but they can go to work where they see hundreds of people daily. Got it. Makes ZERO sense.

I said from the beginning - if this was really about public safety, they would have shut down ALL the stores. You would have heard an outcry from the Targets and the Costcos of the world then. But Walmart workers can continue to go to work, while our state legislature can only meet for three days out of concern for THEIR safety. Sorry. I don't buy it.

 

[sissy]

seems this virus thrives in colder temperatures so that could be the reason some states are holding back .look at VA we are not reopening all the way because the northern part of VA near Washington DC cases are increasing because so many work in DC .NJ because of the people that commute to NY but live in NJ .I saw where they are using tube tables at a bar to social distance in Ocean City, I think