I’m grateful that some people are still taking the virus seriously. Our library was closed for a couple of months, but it opened for curbside pickup starting last Monday. You go online to find the items you want and place holds on them if they’re available. I had placed a hold on a DVD a couple of months ago, so I had a chance to try it out.
You go to the parking lot, phone the number posted on the sign to tell them your name, then wait for them to call you back. They look up your account, find the item(s), and phone you as they come out to leave your order on a table by the driveway. I went over Monday, the first day, but there were a lot of people doing it so they were jammed. I left and tried again yesterday afternoon when I was the only person in the parking lot. It’s not as much fun as browsing in the library, but it’s a lot safer, and I appreciate what they are doing.
And today we received an email from our pharmacy saying we can now order and pay for our prescriptions online and apparently pick them up at their drive-through window if we choose. We usually pick up prescriptions when we shop, and it feels fairly safe…they limit the number of people who can be inside at one time, and people are good about wearing masks and keeping their social distance.
Our local Y is open now, with social distancing, extra cleaning, etc. and yesterday the parking lot was half full. I think they’re taking reasonable precautions, but I’ll still pass and exercise at home.
How is it going where you are?
June 17, 2020
I feel so fortunate, not to have these kind of restrictions (New Zealand) but after the diabolical “should never have happened” inbound quarantined but with big mistake in protocol … got a bit more wary!
I’m avoiding certain places, i.e. the library but using e-books which I never attempted during lockdown. I didn’t feel like reading anything. I haven’t truly supported in a big way any retailer be it objects or tasty cakes. But then I wasn’t a “daily doer of that anyway…”
On the other hand today is raining +++ and I had nothing on my schedule to be out anyway…so it’s homebound. Baking again 🙂
You seem to be handling the whole thing very well! That’s good, and presumably they will get on top of the people coming back to NZ. Being on an island helps a lot, if you have competent and sane people in charge.
At the vet clinic people have to call from the parking lot tell us where they’re parked and give us their phone number and then the vet techs go out and get the pet and bring them in for exam and then we call them to tell them the total on their bill and they pay over the phone and The vet tech takes them back outside. Also since we have their phone number the vets could call and talk to them if there was anything they needed to tell them or had concerns about. If people have to pick up medication or whatever they call it take their credit card information bill them and take the receipt and the meds out to them. Except I don’t do that, the other girls do the running for me because I want the very minimal contact with everybody that I can because apparently cancer makes a persons immune system easily compromised. At my doctors appointment and going to the hospital, they all take my temperature. I’m grateful they are being so careful.
Yes, you have to be especially careful! I’m relieved that your clinic seems to be safe.
It depends on what time of day you go…I went late one evening and hardly anyone had masks…but go in the morn or early afternoon and most people have them on. We can have them bring prescriptions out, but most of ours are mail order anyway. Our county has only had 12 positive cases, and the other one I shop in has only had one positive case.
Our county has few confirmed cases too. That makes a big difference. I am relieved that most people wear masks at the grocery store.
Some of the libraries are open. The local YMCA opened for a few days, then some employees got Covid. So they had to close back down. Masks are still required in most places, and I do phone appointments with most of my doctors. Your library system sounds great!
Yes, I’m impressed with them. 🙂
Everything sounds good where you are, Jean, except for your Y being open. I know it’s “legal” now but I’m with you…. I wouldn’t trust it. We still stay home and when we need to go someplace, we wear a mask. We’re still doing curbside pickup of groceries and such. I buy my prescriptions in 90 day quantities and two of the four medications come in the mail, from Canada… so we’re good in that way. Found a stove to buy but a refrigerator is impossible to find… as are the chest freezers. And now the “new & improved” mutated version of the virus is just now shutting down parts of China… while the USA is still in the throes of ramping back up with the original version. I believe we have some mighty scary times ahead. I’m glad I have a faith in God. Love, Andrea xoxo
I actually think the Y is doing the right thing for young healthy people. They’re doing the best they can to be safe, but that doesn’t mean it’s appropriate for us old folks. As long as our grocery store, pharmacy, doctors and dentists are safe Andy and I have no complaints.
Our county is stuck in the yellow phase of reopening even though we have lower numbers and every county around is has gone to the green phase. There are a lot of people who are very upset with our governor right now.
Do they explain why? That sucks.
Everything is pretty much the same here except they did to open the bars in the beaches and now we’ve got a real upswing of the virus. But after reading all the comments that’s about what’s going on here in Florida also! We’ve been back at the Y for 2 weeks we go in the front door they take our temperature and we have to make a reservation for a lap laying in the pool which is what we do we don’t go in the exercise room. This is necessary for my husband because his swimming is the only thing that keeps him moving and keep him healthy and he really started to go down after 3 months of not swimming his lap! Our why is doing a really good job of cleaning and they only have six people in a 12 Lane pool Plus they took half the machines out of the fitness room and they’re all more than 6 feet apart. When we used to go early in the morning there were 30 people at the door now there’s 10 and we have to wear masks but not in the pool haha
I’m glad they’re open now and are being careful. Our Y doesn’t have a pool, but our aquatic center opened June 8th. One has to reserve a lane ahead of time and the showers and locker rooms are closed. People are supposed to shower at home and come wearing their swimsuits.
Our libraries here are doing the exact, same thing. For the past 20 years I’ve been a germaphobic when it comes to using the library, preferring instead to buy or download books. So all I ever do there is donate books.
Went to the dermatologist yesterday and they had us waiting in our cars and calling in when we got there. It’s really freaky all the precautions were now taking but I’m glad to do them. Just not as much fun anymore to go out and about other people.
Waiting in cars and calling when we arrive seems to be fairly standard practice. My dentist doesn’t do it, but there was only one other person in the waiting room the last time I went…we were a lot more than 6 feet apart, and we were both wearing masks.
Our fitness center is open, sort of. You must make an appointment for a specific piece of equipment only half of which are available. (The others are draped with sheets to keep you from using machines that are too close together.) You must wear a mask. You must wear a sticker from the front desk dated the same day indicating your temperature is OK. The touch points of equipment are wrapped in plastic wrap and changed between users. I went today. But, my doctor had not yet faxed back the release they require so I didn’t actually get to do anything there. Soon, I hope. My weight loss has slowed so I need to move more.
That sounds reasonably safe, which is the important thing. At our Y people don’t have to make reservations, but the number of people they let in at one time is limited.