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What is your response to the virus situation?
- Thread starter Deacon
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100% telework and only venturing out for necessities.
By God's grace, my wife and I are in a better situation than many to cope with this situation. We are retired (I am 68 and she is 67), have ample finances, in relatively good health, and have a big enough piece of property to keep us busy. I am counting our blessings.
However, thinking of so, so many others who are in dire straits, is vexing. While I do not expect God to bless this sinful world, I pray He will pour out a special blessing on His elect.
However, thinking of so, so many others who are in dire straits, is vexing. While I do not expect God to bless this sinful world, I pray He will pour out a special blessing on His elect.
Humpty Dumpty
Active Member
I have my wife and kids on lock down. Only I have been going out and to work. But my work is low number of people and isolated. I also support the food industry
RighteousnessTemperance&
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Brother, God blesses this sinful world constantly, showing his great mercy, sending his rain on the just and the unjust. If God were to remove his blessings even for a moment, none would survive.
We are stuck in Odessa, Ukraine, in a hotel where we are the only guests. At 16 dollars a night it is not too bad. So far still able to walk to the grocery store. Lots of people now wearing masks. No buses or trains can leave the city so we are here for a while.
RighteousnessTemperance&
Well-Known Member
Being in an otherwise empty hotel may not be too bad. It sounds like they are taking it seriously there. Travel is precisely what has spread the virus far and wide. Are they preventing buses and trains both directions, or just those leaving the city?
I'm age 71, & my wife, who has COPD, is 70. Obviously, we're taking precautions, but, as I work in a steel mill, I'm going to work as usual. (No one works too close to anyone else, & the buildings are well-ventilated.) My wife, a schoolmarm, is off, as the school is shut. She isn't going out. Besides work, I go out only to shop for groceries. (We don't hoard) We worship inside, knowing God can see & hear us anywhere.
Humpty Dumpty
Active Member
Stuff like this is the reason why I’m not leaving the US. Unless I have to go fight a war for the country
Working more from home. Work has implemented a policy to do some interviews via telephone, use the fax more for records and documents, and is working on a video platform for primary interviews (we still do these in person). So it's about 90% at home.
Since every thing is closed we go to the lake, hike, and cook out or at home a lot more.
Since every thing is closed we go to the lake, hike, and cook out or at home a lot more.
Left Erbil just as things were getting crazy. Stuck in Kuwait now, as everybody in Centcom is basically huddling in place.
I was wondering how you'd been doing. Glad to hear you're weathering the storm so far.
There are worse places to be than here in Odessa. No reported cases here in the south Ukraine. Kiev and Lvov too I think are hit bad. So trying to keep cities sealed seems like a good thing. It may be we can fly out to a few places but the price would be really high. Cannot afford it.
We had a layover in Kuwait a couple years back. Actually wouldnt mind going there some time in the future.
Far as I know travel to and fro are both shut down. I think that it is still possible to go by shared taxis.
You’re in a country where not only are people all white, but they are all the same shade of white. You are also in the town in the off-season. Unless you take a train, you’re more likely to be shot down by a Russian missile on your way out of Ukraine than to be killed by Covid19
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So far everyone around here remains neighborly, maybe even more so than usual. The worse so far is the run on the grocery stores which shortages should be temporary.
I go to town nearly everyday to check on Dad and take him food and do other duties that a family gopher does. Everyone from Church is in good shape, my wife runs a school system food bank so she's in town as needed too.
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Correction. I should not type at bed time. I meant Qatar, not Kuwait.