Re: [FunBBGroup] Getting bad

by Crime Time Tamil on March 16, 2020

I am one of thoseepeople who live paycheck to paycheck.

My manager informed me on FridaY that because of the schools closing we can stay home if we need to with our children but we won't be paid for it.

Karen

On Sun, Mar 15, 2020 at 5:09 PM Carrie Courter carriecourter@gmail.com [FunBBGroup] <FunBBGroup@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

But doing so will create a huge family homelessness problem, as many who work in non essential jobs are barely making it paycheck to paycheck. Plus people would starve as many can only buy groceries weekly, and can't afford to stock up.

This is a truly horrible situation with no good answers :(

Carrie Courter

On Mar 15, 2020, at 4:03 PM, Natalieav2@aol.com [FunBBGroup] <FunBBGroup@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

What we need to do really is only allow essential people to do what they have to do (police, doctors etc) and the rest of us need to stay home and quarantine for a few weeks to stop the spreading. That's truly the only way. Stop people from going out to bars and places...close everything non essential and everyone needs to stay home. It's bad for the economy but the alternative is much much worse. We need to do it before Italy did it and it is too late.

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We have enough food to last until next weekend. But will not have money to buy any until Friday. I'm worried grocery stores will shut down. Or we can't get an Uber to the store. Amazon Fresh states they can't guarantee delivery. Or what you order, as so many are panic ordering. Local stores are out of meat and poultry. To my sons hope and my dismay we may be filling our freezer with TV dinners for meals on Friday :(

I'm torn.. I'd prefer COVID-19 not spread. But it is, and I don't think there is a lot we can do to stop it... And I read what Boris Johnson in the UK is doing, and think it may not be a bad thing. He's decided to try to get the UK infected as much as possible, to get immunity, because apparently experts fear a second wave, like what happened in 1918, will come through, and will cause way more deaths than the first wave, like what happened in 1918.

It's scary. That's for darn sure. This country can not handle a true full blown pandemic. Yet it's going to be here, ready or not.

Carrie Courter

On Mar 15, 2020, at 3:46 PM, Natalieav2@aol.com [FunBBGroup] <FunBBGroup@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Well now we are almost up to 100 cases in NJ and Bergen county has 29 of them...... My county has the most....i'm getting so worried. Everything is starting to close...movie theaters..i'm sure restaurants will be next. I think they have to close everything non esential federally for the next few weeks..it's the only way to stop the spreading.

Governor Phil Murphy

@GovMurphy

New Jersey now has 98 positive cases of #COVID19: • Bergen: 29 • Burlington: 4 • Camden: 2 • Essex: 11 • Hudson: 11 • Mercer: 1 • Middlesex: 12 • Monmouth: 12 • Morris: 4 • Ocean: 2 • Passaic: 5 • Somerset: 1 • Union: 4