What are you doing during quarantine?

[StatGuy2000]

I work from home full-time as a biostatistician consulting for the pharma sector (have been continuously for the past 5 years), so in this respect nothing has changed.

In Toronto, Ontario, Canada (where I live) we're not technically under an official quarantine, but we are strongly advised by public health officials from the municipal, provincial, and federal level to practice social distancing. So I limit stepping outside to shopping at groceries or pharmacies, or going out for walks alone when the weather permits (the streets and the public parks in my neighbourhood are largely empty, so I can maintain my distance).

As for what I do when I'm at home -- when I'm not working, I've been focusing on reading from e-books, taking online courses on Coursera, watching streaming shows or movies on Netflix or Rogers on Demand (a local version of VOD), or playing with my cat.

 

[Andy Resnick]

Most people in our neighborhood have been following Governor DeWine's orders. My family and I have been on lockdown for 7 days, mostly we are trying to establish a routine- regular outdoor exercise, mealtimes, etc. Just like camping, except we aren't in a tiny tent but our house. What's interesting is that our neighborhood has gotten more social (from a distance)- families are out walking and checking in with each other.

The juxtaposition between social distancing and springtime weather is jarring- our youngest, a competitive athlete who's season just started is having a rough time- the 2020 Olympics discussion has been helpful to frame this issue. But flowers are a-blooming.

In terms of work, most of what I am doing is maintaining clear communications and information flow from upper administration to faculty and staff in our College (advising is handling communications to students) and relaying questions back up the chain, so far so good. And life goes on- papers to review, my Full Professor Dossier is due in a couple of weeks... Crises bring out both the best and worst in people, sometimes simultaneously, and fortunately my colleagues have been at their best.

Stay safe, everyone!

 

[hagopbul]

i wake up after 2 hours of sleep only then i took 4 hours of sleep should start reading after small meal

watched few movies until now that something

should prepare a reading list

 

[Mondayman]

I've eaten forty pizzas in the last thirty days.

 

[PeroK]

I've eaten forty pizzas in the last thirty days.

I haven't eaten a pizza this year!

 

[PhDeezNutz]

Working on animations of magnetic dipole and electric octupole radiation. This break from school gives me time to self-indulge.

I hope everyone is staying safe.

 

[hutchphd]

I've eaten forty pizzas in the last thirty days.

Here's the true depravity test:
How many became cold breakfast pizzas??

 

[pinball1970]

Here's the true depravity test:
How many became cold breakfast pizzas??

Absolutely nothing wrong with cold pizza, cold vindaloo also. Great hangover cures.

 

[hagopbul]

I need to go to the street to get pizza today I didn't went out

 

[Mondayman]

I was just quoting the former CEO of Papa John's fortunately, from one of his recent interviews. No way I could stomach that anymore.

When I was playing sports, eating an entire extra large pizza to oneself was not an uncommon feat. Active teenagers devour mountains of food in my experience.

 

[hagopbul]

Watched cowboy bebop: the movie
Recently
It is a classic

 

[StevieTNZ]

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LOTS OF BOOKS! What are some of your favourite topics?

 

[jrmichler]

LOTS OF BOOKS! What are some of your favourite topics?

Several shelves "belong" to my wife. She likes horror, environmental, and religion, and the relationship between the environment and the Bible. Mine are mostly science fiction, plus Eric Flint's 1632 series. I have a fairly complete selection of books by Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, Spider Robinson, David Brin, Ben Bova, Allan Dean Foster, Piers Anthony, Arthur C. Clark, James P. Hogan, Larry Niven, Dick Francis, and others. And some classics such as The Last Whole Earth Catalog and Domebook 2.

The bottom shelves in the smaller bookcase are bicycles, automotive, aeronautics, boats, firearms, and a collection of Calvin and Hobbes comics. The engineering reference books are in my home office in a different room.

 

[russ_watters]

Bought a bike yesterday so I can avoid public transport.

I bought a weight bench and some select-a-weight dumbells. When the weather warms-up I intend to hit the bike pretty hard.

 

[hagopbul]

Today I bought a pizza
Reached half my book that is something
Start putting reading list for the future with or without Corona viruses

 

[DennisN]

@kyphysics , I'm actually going to install the latest version of Cities: Skylines and play it today. And I will be very careful to not cut down on healthcare in the city I will build.

Hope you're having fun on Cities/Skylines!

I had forgotten how fun that game can be.
All is well in my virtual city, except in a suburb I created for supplying my forest industries with uneducated workers. The suburb has only got houses and shops, no schools, no police, no firefighters, no healthcare, no garbage collection. It has become a problem, since crime is now rampant, garbage is piling up, dead people are left in the apartments and people are getting sick. There's talk of a virus in town... :

My suburb experiment is failing, so I will probably bulldoze it.

 

[astrotemp]

It's day 5 (I think?) of my quarantine, and I'm mostly passing the time online, thinking about food, making food, or eating food. 3 meals a day honestly feels pretty wasteful when I'm stuck inside doing nothing. Still another ~10 days before I'm allowed out. I could try working on research stuff but it just really doesn't feel right, living in this vacuum. I find it hard to impose structure on myself.

 

[Dr. Courtney]

Thankful to be in rural Georgia rather than Baton Rouge when things went sideways. The trace below is the ballistic wave created when a 0.177" diameter steel bb impacts water. This is a bb gun from the sporting goods section of Walmart that you pump up. The horizontal scale is 200 microseconds per division. Water is in a 300 gallon stock tank from Tractor Supply. The goal of these experiments is developing a simple laboratory way to simulate under water blast waves without the excessive costs, handling requirements, and bureaucratic issues of using real high explosives. A Navy contractor reached out to us asking about a simpler way to generate underwater blast waves for calibrating and testing wearable sensors they are developing.

Put any concerns with zoning laws and the like to rest. In this neighborhood, the locals shoot deer out of the window (in season) and often are shooting Tannerite.

 

[hagopbul]

did you try bubble bursting?

 

[Auto-Didact]

Today, while turning off all computers just before leaving for home at the end of a very hectic day, I got an on-call emergency request to visit a patient at home as a favor for another primary care clinic. I literally had no information except an address, that the partner was in panic, and a warning that verbal communication was nigh impossible due to an unbreachable language barrier. Grabbed my bag, ran down the street, entered the house in full protective gear.

When I arrived I didn't even need to listen to lungs or check her oxygen levels; the only time I heard a wheeze as bad as this was on the ICU... upon measurement it was even worse than I estimated. Called the ambulance right away, when they arrived a few minutes later they seemed surprised that I had on the same gear as them. Walked back to the clinic, doused all reusable stuff in alcohol, threw the white coat in the washer and disposed of the rest. Tomorrow will be another day.

 

[Bystander]

2020 Census, took a couple minutes.

How many times does it get sent to a given address? Am I going to be "haunted/hounded" forever? Just got another copy in the mail (that makes it at least a weekly annoyance); the "tempest in the teapot/zombie apocalypse/1918 pandemic centennial flop" is bad enough without census bureau asking me weekly whether I've dropped dead.

 

[Mary Conrads Sanburn]

My husband and I took Gracie Girl (dog) to the golf course up the hill where we live. Gracie had a super-duper run and we all had fun. It was a beautiful day! No one was there but us.

 

[strangerep]

Put any concerns with zoning laws and the like to rest. In this neighborhood, the locals shoot deer out of the window (in season) and often are shooting Tannerite.

Geez, I'm so glad you guys are half a world away from me.

 

[Klystron]

Library, gym and swimming pool closures have truly impacted my lifestyle. Being retired, the shutdowns have not effected me as much except I see more of my young neighbors (from a distance .

Going back into physical therapy Thursday which will compensate for pools and gyms being closed. I exercise better under supervision, anyhow. At home I either overdo it else forget some exercises. Very relieved and happy that physical therapy businesses allowed to function normally.

My spare bicycle is mounted on a Windjammer stationery trainer so I can watch movies on widescreen while cycling. Placed some yoga mats nearby for stretches. Trying to walk outdoors on a regular basis. Weather here is sunny but cool and windy. Finally have enough strength to start spring cleaning garage.

 

[hagopbul]

Tried to watch star trek Picard but couldn't subscribe to it

Watching flightradar24
And windy.com
Sometimes

The daily number of flight is not that low it didn't reach zero

 

[DennisN]

I have taken time to refill my fridge:

 

[nuuskur]

Same old, reading papers, coming up with conjectures, trying to prove or disprove said conjectures and in some way or form write an article . Also, I'm in charge of linear algebra this semester, so with the recent developments in mind, I have to redesign the course on the fly to be electronical.

In other news, it's not nearly as bad here as somewhere like France. There's no strict curfew, we can still move about, but we can't group. Shops are open, toilet paper's a plenty, I went shopping yesterday, found all that I needed without a problem.

 

[Mondayman]

Kids in the neighborhood rearranged the letters on the church sign from something about hope, to "Hiring All Hoes".

 

[hagopbul]

the government are asking people to stay in home for more than 3 April , reading some undergraduated books , thinking dose UV effects viruses

only ate few things from the refrigerator , don't want to cook today i need to shave that is for sure

only one question remain what the official sources knows about the SARS-ncov-2 that we don't know ?

 

[osilmag]

Brushing up on my guitar and reading.