Exactly the same issues we’re having in the U.S. – the state just put up a link on their site for essential companies that are hiring. The Instacart sections shows they want to hire 12,000 new shoppers. Local grocery stores that have their own delivery systems are also on this list. I think it’s going to be the new normal for many people
I’m grateful that I’m healthy and cautious enough to go to the store ~once a week, but for many, especially seniors and those who have health concerns, this is often the only option.
Yes, that’s the problem here as well. I tried a few local markets, but there’s nothing available for weeks. Maybe now that the US had 3+ million unemployment claims just last week the supermarkets can hire the pickers and drivers they need.
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There is something of that going on in the UK. But it’s slow.
I think much of the answer may lie in expanding “Click & Collect” services rather than home delivery. I’d be quite happy driving to the supermarket and have them load it into the car. I could still maintain the 2 metre distance.
The TV guru on Boston Public Radio is a media professor from Syracuse University. His streaming recommendation for the quarantine is St. Elsewhere. It recently became available on Hulu, the first time it has been available since it ran, in the 1980’s, other than a single season that was on video. It was my must-watch drama in its TV era, and I rewatched the whole thing a couple of months ago. Other than a sometimes blasé attitude toward sexual harassment, which was commonplace back then, it still holds up beautifully and many of its well-made points are still as relevant as they were at the time. Also, there were cookies before cookies had a name. You’ll hear the names of producers and other fictional doctors being paged in the background. On the hundredth episode, they have a patient named Cynthia Kaishen, who has had a hundred episodes of angina and whose doctor hopes she lives forever. “Cindy Kaishen” = syndication…
And for my money, although I am not and have never wanted to be a parent, one of the best series ever is Call the Midwife, which is on PBS in the U.S. It is beautifully written and acted, and suitable for family viewing for children over age 10.
Good old St. Elsewhere! I was in medical school in DC then, and we had our very own St. E’s.
From Wikipedia, although I did not know this at the time;
“The hospital’s nickname, “St. Elsewhere”, is a slang term used in the medical field to refer to lesser-equipped hospitals that serve patients turned away by more prestigious institutions; it is also used in medical academia to refer to teaching hospitals in general.”
And of course there is Denzel! And HIV.
I’m going to check it out,
ETA I’m listening to opening music and having…some kind of thing.
Was that the best cast ever? George Clooney and Denzel Washington? I watched every episode when it aired (in the pre-historic days of no dvrs, let alone streaming).
No George Clooney. That was E.R. But better acting, overall, in St. Elsewhere. And the pathos of knowing that the star suffered from major depression, committing suicide a few years later. There was more of Dr. Westphal in Ed Flanders than we ever could have suspected.
The main reason we have the cable package we do is Turner Classic Movies. (Well, and baseball and professional wrestling ). We look through the schedule and DVR what looks interesting (since our schedules don’t allow us to watch together as much we’d like) and when Mr Rat is at work I usually keep it in on in the background, usually with the sound off, just to have something wonderful on the TV 24 hours a day.
I entered 15 years of Cook’s Illustrated magazine’s in to Cook My Books WHICH I didn’t even realize I had a subscription to.
I am also dividing and replanting some perennials.
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Here’s a non-food job for those who are the custodians of the big bag full of family photos. Most familiers have one - usually inherited from a parent. So, go through them and write on the back who the people are. Future generations will thank you. My mother did this and I’ve done more of them. It means that about two thirds of the photo’s can be assigned to either the maternal or paternal side of my family. But it’s still left a third of them completely unidentified - and now lost to history.
I’m about as quarantined as you can get. I’m on a five day delivery from DC to Newport RI (ish). Crew went into isolation two weeks ahead and we’ve all been taking temps twice a day. One of my crew is a professional chef and a culinary instructor - he did a lot of cooking ahead and prep. We are eating very well. There are just three of us on board and zero contact. I laugh at your two meter separation. The closest we’ll come to another person before end of week is a mile.
We each stand two four hour watches per day and mostly sleep in between. Movies. I have navigation and weather forecasting to do. Usually I’m an ocean offshore guy but we’re staying coastal this trip for coronavirus reasons: on a straight line from Cape Henlopen in DE to Newport RI, Bermuda would be our bailout in the event of a major failure or injury and their borders are closed. sigh So we’re heading up the NJ coast, the East River, and out Long Island Sound. That means I’ll mostly have Internet and y’all are stuck with me. grin
We’re finishing up the Chesapeake Bay and should be through the C&D Canal tonight. I expect to be through the Delaware Bay early tomorrow and headed up the NJ coast. NY East River and Hell Gate late Monday. Mystic CT late Tuesday.
It’s working! So now…how can I combine YOUR location with the Ocearch Shark Tracker? Hehe
Seriously, this is really neat–I’ll certainly check to see where you are tomorrow morning and wave as you go past my part of NJ!
Great! Happy to provide some entertainment value to those stuck at home. I’m something to do!
I expect to bet rounding Cape May around dark. We’ll stop in Atlantic City for fuel - 24/7 self serve fuel dock. Head up the coast and should be past Sandy Hook by Monday morning.
the supermarkets can hire the pickers and drivers they need.
). We look through the schedule and DVR what looks interesting (since our schedules don’t allow us to watch together as much we’d like) and when Mr Rat is at work I usually keep it in on in the background, usually with the sound off, just to have something wonderful on the TV 24 hours a day.
