New from Coronavirus: What personal measures are you taking to avoid getting infected with COVID-19 when you have to go out to buy essentials/groceries?

The guidelines here in Switzerland are perfectly clear.​ Whether people abid Coronavirus · 1.7m followers Shared knowledge and experiences regarding COVID-19 Adrienne Gomer, Sheltering-in-place in Southern CA Written 3h ago "Where I live, some smaller, village shops have a policy of no more than 5 customers to be let in at any one time. This is to respect the guideline of limiting gatherings to a maximum of 5 people, and respecting the 2 meter distancing." What personal measures are you taking to avoid getting infected with COVID-19 when you have to go out to buy essentials/groceries? The guidelines here in Switzerland are perfectly clear. Whether people abide by them is, unfortunately, a different matter, but happily, most seem to be taking this serious...  Read More »Loading… 74 upvoters5 comments Neha Agarwal (नेहा अग्रवाल), MBA Written 3h ago "This Captain threw his career away to save his men. Nothing is braver than that." What are your thoughts on the captain of the aircraft carrier USS Roosevelt being relieved of duty for "loss of trust and confidence" after ... Anybody in the military, especially the Navy, would see this dismissal like a truck coming down a desert highway. I have been dragged in an office for answering a question I...  Read More »Loading… 4.6k upvoters276 comments Clara Chagas, lives in Rio de Janeiro Written 3h ago "Already, we are seeing that the typical timeline for admissions is being pushed back. More than three dozen universities ... have already moved the deposit deadlines back by a month." How will the coronavirus affect fall 2020 college admissions? I think it will change a lot of things about college admissions. First off, many of the March SAT dates were canceled, and the May SAT exams have been scrapped entirely at ...  Read More »Loading… 307 upvoters19 comments Tammy Tseng, lives in San Francisco Bay Area Written 2h ago "Every day the dead increase and the morgues are full. You cannot attend the funeral of your loved ones, they die alone and in silence." How is life under lockdown in Italy due to Coronavirus? I have been locked for over a week now. Only one member per family can go shopping and only in the nearest supermarket. Food is not lacking. Not even toilet paper. Nobody l...  Read More »Loading… 3.7k upvoters61 comments Michael Yi, B.S. Computer Science, University of Washington (2019) Written 2h ago "Never, in my whole life, have I felt like I have more friends than during this pandemic." What are your feelings about staying at home during the coronavirus pandemic? All my life, I've been waiting to come into my own. Unfortunately, it has taken a global pandemic to finally make it happen. I am living my ideal life at the moment. Being s...  Read More »Loading… 403 upvoters40 comments Stephanie Ho, Quarantined at home during COVID Written 2h ago When shaving your beard can save lives 🧔🏻🪒 What has changed in your life due to this COVID-19 pandemic that has had the most shock value to you? The greatest shock came with something I was told today that my wife, a physician (neurologist) told me she had been afraid to bring up. There's me with my favorite person Yo...  Read More »Loading… 18.1k upvoters531 comments Alecia Li Morgan, Sheltering-in-place in SF Bay Area w/4 kids & WFH Written 3h ago "Without the DNR order on the chart, if you die, a bunch of doctors and nurses will be forced to flail around pumping on your deceased body, with no chance of making it live again, and yet exposing themselves to huge amounts of deadly virus ..." I read that hospitals in the US are considering standard "do not resuscitate" for coronavirus patients. Is that a wise policy? Is it necessa... Yes. If you are on the ventilator and you code, you are dead. Doing CPR and shock shock shock is NOT GOING TO MAKE YOU LIVE. Without the DNR order on the chart, if you die, a ...  Read More »Loading… 3.2k upvoters186 comments Jonathan Brill, Lives in Santa Clara, CA Written 3h ago "Two days ago, I received the first news of someone that I know personally having died from COVID, the mother of one of my close friends. It is with sincere gravity that I reflect that she will almost certainly not be the last loss that I feel ..." What is it like living in New York City in the age of Coronavirus? As is visible in previous answers to this question, the situation has escalated with shocking and disturbing vigor. To give a glimpse of just how rapid this escalation is, I...  Read More »Loading… 495 upvoters24 comments   Read more on q/coronavirus For health and prevention information, visit the Centers for Disease Control at CDC.gov. Follow Quora on: Get the App for iOS and Android This email was sent by Quora (605 Castro Street, Mountain View, CA 94041). If you don't want to receive this type of email in the future, please unsubscribe.https://www.quora.com/