How much is COVID-19 affecting your life now?

[coffeebean]

Is it safe to book any travel now? Like would you book for next winter?

Why wouldn't you book for next winter, next winter?

[Moshe123]

Isn't a mikva a very hot and humid place where the virus wouldn't survive?

[Dawie]

Costco (Lakewood):
mandatory to wipe your cart when entering with Clorox wipes handed out at the entrance

not mandatory, they were asking if you wanted to

[yesitsme]

Manhattan HS for girls Closed for a week

[yesitsme]

not mandatory, they were asking if you wanted to

and you rejected and let you by?

[Boruch999]

https://www.hpsc.ie/a-z/respiratory/coronavirus/novelcoronavirus/guidance/environmentalhealthguidance/Advice%20note%20to%20EHS%20on%20Coronavirus%20and%20Drinking%20%20Water%20and%20Swimming%20Pools_V3.pdf

Swimming Pools
With regard to swimming pools the same rationale applies for standards such as PWTAG 20162 and
EHOA6 which are intended to control microbiological hazards in swimming pools treated with
disinfectant.
Please note also that the minimum recommended free chlorine residual depends on the type of pool
or chlorination chemical used – for example spa pools (‘jacuzzis’) need a higher residual. Refer to the
relevant guides for details. The key point is that, regardless of the type of pool, adherence to the appropriate guidelines will
control risk from waterborne COVID-19 virus

[Dawie]

and you rejected and let you by?

yes

[Aaroncar]

I had a ticket and test planned in Israel in two weeks there goes my plans, א מענטש טראכט און גאט לאכט

[ltttc]

yes

Why did you reject??

[yeshivabucher]

as a travel agent, made my life a living hell

[Dawie]

Why did you reject??

Was DW, and she was like "did you disinfect all the products i'm gonna touch in five seconds" ...

[Yonah]

So as I write this, one day after purim:

I live in Westchester - my 3 kids go to two different schools and both are closed:
- My HS kids have been quarantined until 3/17
- My Middle Schooler was not initially quarantined because he was with me in Israel when his class was exposed, but they are all quarantined until 3/16.
- All 3 are virtually attending school today
- All but one of the shuls in the area are closed, without minyanim. That one that is opened, but davened outside on purim. I know of at least 1-2 people who are quarantined that are saying kaddish who've been scrambling to find people to say kaddish for them.
- My company has assigned people to work remotely as a proactive measure.

Just this morning I found out that someone on my flight to Israel on 3/1-2 was confirmed. Which means that my son and I are as well until 3/16. How did I find out? Not from Elal or the health ministry in Israel, but from reading about it on Israeli news sites.

[elazarmn]

So as I write this, one day after purim:

I live in Westchester - my 3 kids go to two different schools and both are closed:
- My HS kids have been quarantined until 3/17
- My Middle Schooler was not initially quarantined because he was with me in Israel when his class was exposed, but they are all quarantined until 3/16.
- All 3 are virtually attending school today
- All but one of the shuls in the area are closed, without minyanim. That one that is opened, but davened outside on purim. I know of at least 1-2 people who are quarantined that are saying kaddish who've been scrambling to find people to say kaddish for them.
- My company has assigned people to work remotely as a proactive measure.

Just this morning I found out that someone on my flight to Israel on 3/1-2 was confirmed. Which means that my son and I are as well until 3/16. How did I find out? Not from Elal or the health ministry in Israel, but from reading about it on Israeli news sites.

How does it work? Are your kids able to be quarantined while you are able to walk freely around the house

[Yonah]

How does it work? Are your kids able to be quarantined while you are able to walk freely around the house

Good question - right now all of the kids are working in separate rooms (their bedrooms or elsewhere). We did have a purim seudah - which might have been wrong.

I was also not quarantined until about 10am this morning. Have to think about DW and what that means for her (she is not quarantined and working at her office).

[PlatinumGuy]

Manhattan HS for girls Closed for a week

2 teachers positive and all students on self quarantine

[mmgfarb]

Anyone want to take a gander at how is this going to affect the supply chain for kosher for Pesach food?

[Yonah]

2 teachers positive and all students on self quarantine

IINM, one of those two teachers is the rebbitzin from New Rochelle

[PlatinumGuy]

IINM, one of those two teachers is the rebbitzin from New Rochelle

Yes

[Yonah]

Anyone want to take a gander at how is this going to affect the supply chain for kosher for Pesach food?

I don't know what I can say about the supply chain, but I imagine that consumer demand in some locations will go up for 2 reasons:
- Programs being canceled
- People who normally go to parents for part of pesach will now be making sedarim at home

[ejb123]

Anyone want to take a gander at how is this going to affect the supply chain for kosher for Pesach food?

Aside from Pesach, even the pre-pesach may be an issue. The bigger question is what happens if/when they expand quarantines, which would limit workers showing up for work and availability for the crush of delivery requests for people who can't go out to shop. For those who are living this now in Westchester, there has been a multitude of kosher delivery options from stores outside our immediate area, but if those communities start to face the same restrictions, it will change the dynamic.