Page 7 of 9 FirstFirst ... 56789 LastLast
Results 61 to 70 of 84

Thread: Coronavirus precautions in your home

  1. #61
    Senior Member bae's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jan 2011
    Location
    Offshore
    Posts
    11,477
    My daughter in Cambridge had been planning on moving out to her boyfriend's parents' place in Hertfordshire this weekend.

    She just found out late last night that Cambridge, in addition to mostly-shutting down, is kicking students, including grad students, out of their housing entirely - they are to pack up the contents and leave. By tomorrow.

    Weird, since for grad students, their apartment *is* their house, most have no place to go, especially the foreign students.

  2. #62
    Senior Member iris lilies's Avatar
    Join Date
    Mar 2013
    Location
    Always logged in
    Posts
    25,383
    Quote Originally Posted by bae View Post
    Right now, there is ferry service available still. Private boat or airplane are options of course.
    I would think then the answer is No since you have to take public transportation for this purely social, unessential event. event.

  3. #63
    Senior Member Teacher Terry's Avatar
    Join Date
    Dec 2013
    Location
    Nevada
    Posts
    12,889
    So in the more bad news department a friend said the US might shut all the borders so told my son to buy a ticket and get home. He can't because he was in the process of renewing his Vietnamese Visa so they physically have his passport and he won't get it back until the 25th or 26th. Then my middle son who is homeless and has a drug problem called and he is sick. Almost cocktail hour)

  4. #64
    Senior Member iris lilies's Avatar
    Join Date
    Mar 2013
    Location
    Always logged in
    Posts
    25,383
    Quote Originally Posted by Teacher Terry View Post
    So in the more bad news department a friend said the US might shut all the borders so told my son to buy a ticket and get home. He can't because he was in the process of renewing his Vietnamese Visa so they physically have his passport and he won't get it back until the 25th or 26th. Then my middle son who is homeless and has a drug problem called and he is sick. Almost cocktail hour)
    Have two stiff ones in a row.

  5. #65
    Senior Member JaneV2.0's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jan 2011
    Posts
    15,489
    Quote Originally Posted by iris lilies View Post
    I would think then the answer is No since you have to take public transportation for this purely social, unessential event. event.
    My experience with the ferry system here is that you can easily distance yourself from others--by staying in your car, for example, on car ferries. It might be more difficult in passenger-only ferries.

  6. #66
    Senior Member rosarugosa's Avatar
    Join Date
    Dec 2010
    Location
    Eastern Massachusetts
    Posts
    8,143
    Oh no, Terry. How stressful for you guys.

  7. #67
    Senior Member
    Join Date
    Aug 2016
    Posts
    7,454
    Oh Terry, I am so sorry. I hope your son in Vietnam can get his passport back quickly.
    It is so hard to be at a distance from your loved ones and not know how to help.

  8. #68
    Senior Member iris lilies's Avatar
    Join Date
    Mar 2013
    Location
    Always logged in
    Posts
    25,383
    Quote Originally Posted by JaneV2.0 View Post
    My experience with the ferry system here is that you can easily distance yourself from others--by staying in your car, for example, on car ferries. It might be more difficult in passenger-only ferries.
    Oh, I was thinking of a passenger ferry. Well yes car ferries – we have those here too for the Missouri and Mississippi river. So yeah a car ferry would be OK. As for meeting up each weekend, depends on how rigorous the other person is at avoiding unnecessary interaction.

  9. #69
    Senior Member bae's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jan 2011
    Location
    Offshore
    Posts
    11,477
    Quote Originally Posted by iris lilies View Post
    I would think then the answer is No since you have to take public transportation for this purely social, unessential event. event.
    It is possible to take the ferry without every leaving your vehicle or making contact with another human. Yay?

  10. #70
    Senior Member jp1's Avatar
    Join Date
    Dec 2010
    Location
    San Francisco
    Posts
    9,802
    Reading Steve’s story about big bank and big accounting and amazed at how different it is with my experience with medium insurance, which has been incredibly supportive and proactive. I’m curious what other ‘big bank’ and ‘big accounting’s are doing. If the others are handling this better they may find a flurry of resumes being sent to them once this crisis has passed, from people pissed off at the less accommodating big bank and big accounting.

Thread Information

Users Browsing this Thread

There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •