We have been letting each other on this tiny road we live on know when we need to go out. So far nobody has needed anything. I am not sure what we would do out here. Most of us are older than 60.

Use my debit card to pay and wash my hands before, during (since my bladder is about the size of a walnut), and after. I only touch the stuff I will actually buy, noto being as selective as usual.

I don't know if we can get deliveries and frankly I'd rather go myself than have some unknown delivery person coming here.

Our biggest exposure is that we have construction crews every day. This weekend they are putting the new roof on. Next week they will be completing the exterior siding and trim. So really, the electrician, air conditioning installer, and the drywall people will be the most invasive, if we can get that far before stuff is shut down. Oh! I forgot about the painters.

I do stay away from the crews and so far they have all been outside. But we're not done...

I think despite our ages (I'm still 67 though only a few months behind my husband) we both have pretty good immune systems. I've had a bunch of major operations and not one infection after any of them. A few years ago what I thought was my husband with a stomach ache turned out to be a burst appendix. Even with multiple pockets of infection, he healed up quickly once they were drained. We eat healthy and are careful.

AS I said, though, there are people who rely on him and they are his biggest exposure. I think I need to sit down with him about making sure he and they wash their hands regularly. One of his friends has had several strokes and he is not sharp mentally so he may have trouble remembering.

Tomorrow I have to pick up groceries that I ordered Thursday. No one notices or cares. I'm in Mi.

If you are in NYC, don't go out, period.

So far...

Real fast.

I spent most of yesterday trying to order groceries online. It took me all day.

I do not know if I will receive my order at all.

And besides the extra delivery fee, marked up prices, etc., they want a tip on top of it. Uh huh ...

Now have to order several days ahead, ‘before’ it was same day. I have gotten anywhere between 30% of what I ordered to 70%.

Good luck! Have them leave it on the porch and wipe it all down before you put it in the. Upboard 🙂

I would take a good long look at what really is essential to your existence right now and if you decide you can stay alive without it I would do without for the time being and hope that this doesn't last too long. Also, your husband might want to consider temporarily suspending his assistance to his friends. It won't do his friends any good if your husband gets exposed to the virus. They might need to look at other ways to get assistance so your husband doesn't have to do it.

I know these are hard choices. But you and your husband should make doing what it takes to avoid this virus and potentially saving your lives your one and only priority.

If this is a decision that must be made you must ask yourself what the price may be.

If I risk it and go out and get it, my 83 year old husband will contract it and is at the highest risk to die.

It is not worth the risk so we've both decided to just forget it and do the best we can.

And there are crews here every day. I stay away from them, but in the next few weeks the electrician will have to work in the part of the house where we are living. See my message above about it.

I get less exposure going to the store.

As for our friends, at least one really gets no other support. He has a bad heart, has had several strokes, and can't get around well enough to take the bus. Plus my husband helps him financially, buying groceries, meeting copays for doctors and meds. Without my husband, that guy would be dead already without the virus.

IN will review with my husband about keeping social distance and washing hands and have him talk to the friend about those things. The friend is pretty isolated just by his situation.

The Amber alerts were driving me crazy. They were sending me alerts from the other end of the state, plus I am seldom out where I would see a suspicious vehicle and all kids look alike to me, pretty much.

Between the threatened Trump alerts and Amber Alerts, I turned off everything I could. And I still get alerts!

Someone knew we were going to need it.