I’m 68, with a couple of other things on the risk list. I stay home a lot of the time anyway – not necessarily in the house, but at home. (I’m in the enviable position that I could self-isolate and still have eighty acres of outdoors to play in.)
I’ve been out more than usual in the past week; and expect to take a cat to the vet. on Friday. Neither I or the vet. had better be sick by then; the cat (who showed up at my door on a cold night, and who nobody has so far claimed) needs neutering, and he’s going half crazy and driving me and a spayed female cat half crazy.
As far as I know we’ve got no cases in this county yet. If I start coughing, or if lots of other people locally do, I’ll stay home then.
60ish with no health issues… Office was closed because of Nashville tornadoes last week. One out of six weeks I work from home all week and this is the week. So, I would have been home during the day. Went shopping and restaurant last weekend. Will this weekend. As long as office is open next week I am planning on going in.
This week, no. Next week, they’re getting us all laptops and we’ll be waiting for the order to start working from home. Until then, I’m keeping my outside activities to a minimum.
70, retired, nothing different in particular. Despite my friend who suggested we should stock up on dry goods. and who insists on making this a moral issue somehow, we’re jogging along pretty much as we always do.
62, still working as a librarian. In a hospital with 2 COVID patients, but obviously I don’t have patient contact. I work from home about one day a week because I can. The rest of my life consists of going to the barn to ride my horse. She isn’t worried about getting sick, so why should I???
Not yet. Barely 60. I still go to work every day and will continue unless my office were to close down. I live in a tourist area so it is a little concerning. I still run errands and go to the grocery. At work I have a private office so not too much contact. Of course, it could all change quickly.
I’m 62 and working a 40-50 hour work week. Thing is, I work in the shipping and receiving department of a manufacturing plant. Everyday I handle things that have been handled by somebody else recently. Paperwork from truck drivers. Those electronic pads that UPS and FedEx use. Straps and load bars that secure loads in trailers. I carry my own arsenal of disinfectants in my backpack and keep my 70% alcohol hand sanitizer on my person at all times. My company has hand sanitizer stations in many locations but they dispense non-alcohol, foaming sanitizer which according to the CDC is sub-optimal. Benzalkonium chloride is the active ingredient in that.
I spray my forklift controls down with Lysol every morning and again if somebody other than me uses it. I don’t know if Lysol is effective against corona virus. Hope so! How about Clorox wipes. People are wiping stuff down with those at work. Do they work on Corona virus?
I’m 70 and emeritus so I don’t need to show up much. We’re actually in spring break now, and classes will be on line for the first couple of weeks after spring break. There are few people around at the office right now. I do worry that when the students do finally return someone will bring something uninvited with them.
I’m 58. I was already working from home most of the time, but there was a corporate directive today that all employees who can WFH are to do so for the next month or so (that most of the office staff). Other than that, I’m not varying my routine (which is mostly stay at home anyway). I went to the movies on Saturday, my riding lesson yesterday and out to lunch with a friend today. I did buy enough horse, dog, cat and bird feed for a month an a half, in case things get bad.
61 and have not changed my routine. I teach classes three evenings a week; people are still coming. So far there are only 2 confirmed cases in the state, and they are both in quarantine on Oahu (I’m on a different island) so there seems to be little point in panicking.
However, that Princess cruise ship that had 21 confirmed cases was docked here before heading off to California, and passengers disembarked and went around East Hawai’i, so it’s probably only a matter of time til there are a number of cases on island. There may already be and we just don’t know about it because they haven’t been tested.
So far, I’m not too worried about myself or anyone I care about; everyone is either young or in excellent health.
Close to 70 and we’ve suspended going to the gym. My wife does the silver sneakers, which is scary enough, it’s a very mixed-ethnic crowd. I swim, and while the elevated levels of chlorine in the pool are reassuring, I really don’t know about the sauna or steam room.
65, reasonably healthy and working 25 hours a week at a local museum, which hosts about 15-20 visitors a day, so not exactly large crowds. No particular changes to my routine; I’ll avoid large groups until I see how things shake out, but it looks like most of the sort of events I might attend are cancelled anyway, or are about to be.
I’ll be 60 this year, my wife will be 61. She still manages our store every day with dozens and on weekends hundreds of customers every day.
I’m a LEO and I figure over the years many of the homeless I’ve dealt with on a nightly basis have had worse than what’s going around now. We do have business interruption insurance on the store. Checked with our agent to confirm if we are covered if we have to close because of this hysteria.
We were planning a vacation to Europe in May. Looks like we’ll have to put that on hold, for now.
66 and have a bit of bronchitis, so staying around the house, usually going out once a day for any shopping/necessities. Haven’t changed my habits but there is no reported cases here in Alabama (being Alabama, half the state will be sick before the politicians notice) so I think I’m safe.
I’m 64 and just got back from a three-day conference in L.A. It was a small meeting of about 160, and most of us bumped fists or elbows, although maybe 10% of the time we’d forget and shake hands.
I washed my hands with soap every time I used the rest room, as did most other men, and I had the strong impression this was a change for most of us. Previously I’d usually only give them a quick rinse with water, although I have long been in the habit of washing my hands (with soap) whenever I come home from being outside.
Other than that I haven’t done anything differently. I’ve never wiped seat back tray tables, shopping carts, etc., with disinfectant wipes or used hand sanitizer, or any of that stuff, and I’m not doing it now. I never get colds or flu even though I never got flu shots until the last three or four years.
We’re early 70s, beyond employment, and moderately fit, 'way off in a woodsy mountain village. MrsRico picked up something from the Monterey Bay Aquarium crowd a couple weeks ago, bad respiratory-itis but no fever or other COVID or flu symptoms. We mostly lounge at home anyway but some interaction is needed with the outer world, like yesterday’s phlebotomy and shopping. Sanitize hands; stay apart; chant the notme-notme-notme mantra.
