Lostin76

Ha, just one quart. Tomorrow we might order two!

I have all of my staff and faculty working remotely from home. We are now approaching 4,000 cases in NYC. It's not safe for them to commute, even though the subs are much less crowded. Some of my staff are fairly young - in their 20s - and this is really freaking them out. I have one research assistant who has asked if he can return to his parents house in Iowa and work remotely from there. Poor kid, he just moved to NYC 6 months ago and thought he was living the dream. On a positive note, my wife and I walked to our local Mexican place last night after placing a carryout order. It was a beautiful spring evening - the trees are starting to bloom here. When we got there, the staff already had our order together and we were all happy to see each other. They are now selling quarts of their frozen margaritas and man did they taste good! We left them a 50% tip, b/c I consider what they are doing hazard pay worthy.

I know you have to be freaking out and I certainly would be too. The one thing that kids have as an advantage is that they don't seem to get sick from it, but I do remember reading that your son has some immunity issues. It sounds like you guys are doing everything you can to protect Ayden on your end. That's the one thing you have some control over. My thoughts are with you and your family. Can't imagine the fear coursing through your veins. Thinking of you guys.

Those little things on our part can make a big difference for a delivery person when they add their tips up at the end of the night. Our local taco/margarita place is now allowing people to carryout quarts of their famous margaritas. We are ordering tacos and margs tonight at the end of the workday. And will be tipping very generously for the people busting their butts at the restaurant. All research seems to show that food heated up is safe, but to still be careful handling plastic containers.

No panic here, but definitely concern for our neighbors and business owners. One of the things that makes Brooklyn so great (as compared to all the chain stores in Manhattan) is that we are a collection of smallish neighborhoods with vital small business owners - shops, restaurants, and bars. Picture a bunch of small Indiana towns all pushed up against each other, so that you can comfortably walk from town to town to sample the best that each has to offer. I do worry that our local businesses won't survive this.

I wish I could stop checking these numbers, as we now have 1,871 cases in NYC as of the end of the work day. If you do the math for the next week or month, it does not look good.

I listened to it and it was brutal to hear how they were having to just let people die. I don't envy small business owners right now, no matter where you are. Best of luck to you in the coming months.

We have 923 cases in NYC as of earlier this morning. They had predicted 1,000 by end of week, but we'll top that by the end of the day. Ugh, there are going to be so many of these types of stories. My Dad was saing he only comes into close contact with 6-8 people each day on his job. He was silent when I asked him how many people those 6-8 people came into close contact with each day. And then how many people those people came into contact with. And so on...

Am seeing that now. I trust Cuomo over DeBlasio. DeBlasio is not exactly projecting strength or inspiring confidence.

Dang, didn't expect that many in IN. We just passed 650 cases here in NYC this morning. Expecting over 1,000 before Friday. But, I think that's being conservative. On the plus side, leave it to NYC to figure this stuff out. Our local wine shop has an app that no one used before, but now they have a sign on the door directing people to order/pay on app. I downloaded the app and 5 minutes later they opened the door and put our wine/booze on the ground for us pick up. It was all very orderly and someone else already there walked us through the procedure. We walked our dog the one and half blocks and then walked home with a month's worth of prosecco for the wife. I already have rye, gin, and sweet vermouth. It looks like NYC will have a shelter in place order in the next few days. Shouldn't affect us too much as we are already hunkering down. We could leave the city and stay at our place on Maryland Eastern Shore, but Brooklyn is our home. All the people and businesses around us are important to us. Our bodegas an grocery stores are staying open and just asking people to limit the number of people going in at one time. There's a sense that we know that the city will be hit really hard, but also a sense that we are all in this together, even if it means keeping our distance from each other. Last night, I smoked a big fat joint and instead of listening to music I watched the 2002 IU/Duke tourney game that @dbmhoosier posted in another thread. I give that dude lots of attitude for his negative posting, but he gave me Moye stuffing Boozer and a lot of Jared Jeffries being a badass. So, I thank him for that! Stay safe everyone.

Our local vet here in Brooklyn is instituting "curbside service." We are lucky though, b/c our vet lives on our floor of our building.