Nand

Are you going to get tested? It sounds like the symptoms they have listed.

Jerseygirl

unless you have been near someone who is infected or just returned from certain countries you will not be tested. Even then you need to display certain symptoms...high temp and dry cough are the key symptoms. At least that’s the case in Ontario.

magnumpi

How many had temps coughs and sickness Dec to Feb, I had a cold in Feb, first week, it cleared, also I have had a dry cough for months now, seen doc this week and changed my ACE inhibitors to ARBs as it’s a ACE cough, common when taking heart meds

is tricky to know what’s what I guess

dbd33

It's Canada in the winter. If you're not a bit sick then you're a snowbird.

BristolUK

Maybe check temperature - but without drinking a cup of tea first
(depending where you stick the thermometer of course )

magnumpi

No temp, (except for when I had a cold and I sweated that out) and when I lie down my ACE cough goes away. I have had it since August and a dry nose for over a year. Time to change meds. Takes time tho for the change over to work.

dave_j

My parents lived in the UK through two world wars, a depression, a land without social health care for much of their younger lives and little or no social services.
Most of us have lived without major threats to life and limb and see overseas events like wars and famine as something that happens elsewhere.
Well, today there's a threat out there that doesn't discriminate between wealth, sex, race or religion, and it's a novel experience for me and I've come to realise that times have changed and behaviour will need to change as a result.
Very likely we won't like it and unforeseen events will take their toll.
Will we rise to the challenge as well as our parents did? Time will tell.
Best of good fortune to everyone out there.

Jerseygirl

Well said.

Times will be tough for a while, no doubt extremely tough, but society will bounce back eventually. Hubby and I were talking earlier - this is our new normal life now. Find lots of jobs to do around the place, take your time doing them, have a cuppa every hour and think of all the good things in your life.

dbd33

The threat may not discriminate, as the threat of a hurricane or earthquake does not directly discriminate, but the unequal circumstances of the threatened certainly make a difference. If there are limited supplies; of food, of test kits, of hospital beds then money will decide who gets them. In trying times, one should avoid being poor.

dbd33

Also, while the market and the price of toys is down, buy a Ferrari.

Gozit

For me, college classes are cancelled this week, moved online for the 2 weeks after that, and we are supposed to go back to school when the kids go back to public school. We will see if that actually happens or if they keep classes online.

Other then that, life is mostly normal for me still, other then not booking any international travel. I am mostly staying at home, but have plans to go to Ikea this week and buy a table, have been helping friends move into their new home, and will keep up with my studies.

Still going to the gym, shopping, out for walks and appointments as necessary.

I am an uber driver but have elected to stop doing that until this blows over so that people who may have come into contact with COVID aren't going in and out of my car.

I don't have any ultra-recent international travel and am not feeling sick so at this time, i'm not fully isolating.

Jerseygirl

I would have thought gyms were a breeding ground for the virus. I think many have closed.

Pulaski

Viruses cannot "breed" outside of a host. I agree that the risk of transmission of the virus at a gym would be greater, but it is the bodies visiting the gym that are the "breeding grounds".
That reminds me of the joke about "being a little bit pregnant".

IMO your decision is at best misguided, and arguably selfish - you are both putting yourself at risk of catching the virus and also of being a vector, passing it to others. Fetching food is understandable, but non-essential activities that put you into close contact with others, such as visiting a gym, or going anywhere where people gather, would be best avoided even if not for your own safety, then for the safety of others.

Siouxie

Ontario have limited testing as they are conserving the swabs needed https://www.theglobeandmail.com/cana...-symptoms-but/

My step daughter, her husband and 3 kids are all sick, fever, coughing their lungs out... and have been told they won't be tested despite recently coming back from Mexico. Never mind that they have been in contact with probably hundreds of people in their day-to-day lives over the past 10 days...

scrubbedexpat091

If it gets to a point there are food shortages, and I end up homeless (which is a very real possibility for a lot of people if their income stops) I think I'll throw in the towel and call it a day,

I am not feeling any worse than last night, but body aches, a mild dry cough, and only a slight fever 99.9, so just gonna stay inside and wait it out.

I will need to consider cancelling my training myself at this point, sucks but its not feasible at this point, bad timing out of anyone's control.

My biggest concern is maintaining housing long term, one of many downsides to renting, in times of crises your left in a more precarious positions, banks may defer mortgages, but you can't defer rent like a loan can be, can tack payments onto the back of a loan and extend it a bit, not possible with rent. So no idea what the future holds at this point.