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[Jeanne]

Hi, John G

Good night, John G.

[Jane]

Speaking of which, whiplash was a new waltz step I learned today. 

[Jeanne]

The supermarkets will still be open, but that's not much help if there's little on the shelves. The restaurants I've talked to have plenty of food--no one is grabbing their supplies. Buying from restaurants may be the only way to purchase food.

[Jeanne]

Jane, you and Keith were making your own hand sanitizer, weren't you?

[Jeanne]

Good night.

[Jane]

I may be hungry by then.

I hope you are joking about this.  Can you do a drive through pick up at the market?

[bk]

Not even the governor was shutting restaurants down completely.  I think Garcetti is a complete idiot and is just fueling this crap even more.  Half capacity for most places I frequent would be fifty and that seems to be the magic number.  Guess it's Taco Bell for me, but doing what he just did is now just going to add to the panic and hysteria and now take out food and fast food will all be what markets are.  I wish social media would basically just stop and I do mean STOP.  I'm gonna have to take a Facebook vacation because I cannot stand what's happening there with everyone there.  So, I'll just get updates right here at haineshisway.com

[Jane]

I just got a call from my dad asking if I could come over and help set up his phone.  He is hard of hearing and was able to get a special voice-to-text phone that displays on a screen what callers say to him.  Hopefully, I'll be able to understand the instructions.

Have a good rest of the day, all!

The Vixter works at a place where they handle this type of call.  She is  in between the hearing challenged person and the other caller and converts the spoken word to text

Cool.  Does she like her work?

She does, very much so.  She says she’ll be very busy at work the next few weeks because she is considered an essential service and with people staying home there will be a lot more phone calls

I am happy for her. 

[Jane]

Yes DR VIXMOM that is the way it works.....as far as I know it is NOT voice recognition software, but person placing the call will call the service to make the call and then type the words so that it will be transmitted to the receiver on the screen.

BUT - it may have been improved and work in more technical way now.

The Vixter tells me that she uses voice recognition software, she repeats what the other person is saying but she sees it on a screen and can make corrections before it is forwarded to the deaf person

Considering what my transcribed voicemail looks like I expect she makes many corrections.

[Jane]

My buying  on sale and sticking in the basement also worked out since I have three large bottles and 6 small (pocket size)  bottles of hand sanitizer

Unfortunately I was about to reorder my large size of hand sanitizer and my next trip to Costco would have included TP & paper towels.

[Jane]

We did purchase paper towels at the market.  The only extras were a small bottle of Clorox and the ingredients to make hand sanitizer.  Oh I did get some extra hand wipes but not a lot as I already had them on my shopping list.

[Jane]

Back from a terrific final show - bigger audience today, not huge, but decent.  No one really had to sit near anyone so that was good.  And Doug personally used his own wipes to wipe down every surface in the place, including each and every arm rest. 

That was nice of him.  I am glad the show went well and you had an audience.

[Jane]

In certain cities they've now closed restaurants.  Good job - what do you think THAT will do to panic shopping - way to shut down the panic by creating more.  And are they limiting the number of shoppers to fifty?  Noooooo.  Thankfully, here the restaurants can stay open and operate at half capacity.

Um, I thought they could only do takeout after 9:00 tonight.

[Jane]

The group that does Restaurant Week here is sponsoring a Restaurant Week to go. Three courses fir $30 all wrapped and ready to go to help get some business to the restaurants.

Great idea.

[Jane]

Jane, you and Keith were making your own hand sanitizer, weren't you?

Yes.  I will be glad when the first batch is gone as it isn't very good

[Jane]

Washington is closing bars and restaurants.

[George]

Washington is closing bars and restaurants.

What??  ALL bars and restaurants??  I hadn't heard that.

[George]

I just got a call from my dad asking if I could come over and help set up his phone.  He is hard of hearing and was able to get a special voice-to-text phone that displays on a screen what callers say to him.  Hopefully, I'll be able to understand the instructions.

Have a good rest of the day, all!

The Vixter works at a place where they handle this type of call.  She is  in between the hearing challenged person and the other caller and converts the spoken word to text

Well, it turns out that this isn't a new phone.  He's had it since late last year, but my sister's boyfriend must've set it up, so I didn't really know about it.  It also has its own built-in answering machine, even though my parents have voice mail through their phone provider (Comcast...they have the phone, Internet, cable bundle). 

[George]

This phone actually has voice recognition software built in.  It displays what is said by the other person on the line, and also displays voice mail messages.  It turns out that that's what my dad wanted me to look at. 

[George]

The phone was displaying a message that there were unheard voice mail messages and he couldn't quite understand what it meant.  I listened to all 42 of them, and only a few from January were legitimate messages.  Those were actualy duplicates of what my mom remembers listening to from their Comcast voice mail.  The rest were robocalls that hung up after 5 seconds.

[George]

I then turned off that phone's internal answering machine so there won't be anymore duplicating of voice mail messages.

[George]

I have a question.  Is anyone panic  shopping?

My theory is a few people panicked, then the gougers emptied the shelves forcing everyone else to shop.

Not I.  I have enough TP for me.

[George]

I just got a call from my dad asking if I could come over and help set up his phone.  He is hard of hearing and was able to get a special voice-to-text phone that displays on a screen what callers say to him.  Hopefully, I'll be able to understand the instructions.

Have a good rest of the day, all!

I like my iPhone that puts the sound directly into my ears.  Still reading would be easier at times.

Unless the voice recognition software can't understand the person calling.  One displayed voice mail message was almost half [unintelligible].  I couldn't even understand a lot of what the guy was saying!

[George]

The panic and hysteria here is palpable.  Don't know about anywhere else.  It isn't a question of whether people are being calm, they're panicked and that's why everything is so packed, market-wise and a lot of that panic is directly relatable to Facebook and the media.  You think the same people need to go every day and clean out the shelves?  They are.  I've seen it.  You think people need to have THREE carts filled to the brim?  That is insanity.  It will abate this week, I think, if people will just calm the HELL down.  Nobody's shoving or grabbing, so that's good.  And yes, I'm glad it's finally come to light that some of this or even much of this are these profiteers, who, in my opinion, should all be arrested and fined and what they've been gouging the public with should be taken away from them.

It's terrible what's been happening.  Fortunately, most people that I've seen in stores have been pretty calm (and I haven't seen anyone with more than one cart), but toilet paper is still gone from every store that I've gone to. 

[George]

Also fortunately, I have more than enough for myself.

[George]

Back from a terrific final show - bigger audience today, not huge, but decent.  No one really had to sit near anyone so that was good.  And Doug personally used his own wipes to wipe down every surface in the place, including each and every arm rest.

That's great, BK!  But you'd think that the theater would've been sanitizing all the surfaces instead of Doug having to do it himself.

[bk]

In certain cities they've now closed restaurants.  Good job - what do you think THAT will do to panic shopping - way to shut down the panic by creating more.  And are they limiting the number of shoppers to fifty?  Noooooo.  Thankfully, here the restaurants can stay open and operate at half capacity.

Um, I thought they could only do takeout after 9:00 tonight.

Thanks to the mayor, that is now the case.  The governor said half-capacity, and that seemed fair.  Garcetti is an idiot and has just made it a certainty that if you thought the panic shopping was bad for the last three days, just wait until tomorrow.  And now fast food places will be jammed with people - why is THAT not being banned - they're small places but as far as I know they'll be open.  Thankfully, I can make pasta all week, I think, although that will become very boring.  I think if I go to Taco Bell at off hours it should be fine.  Same with other fast-food jernts, and one could always order from the car. 

[George]

Washington is closing bars and restaurants.

What??  ALL bars and restaurants??  I hadn't heard that.

I just found this article:  Restaurants, bars ordered closed temporarily in Washington state over coronavirus concerns.

[Jane]

I have a question.  Is anyone panic  shopping?

My theory is a few people panicked, then the gougers emptied the shelves forcing everyone else to shop.

Not I.  I have enough TP for me.

😊

[Jane]

I just got a call from my dad asking if I could come over and help set up his phone.  He is hard of hearing and was able to get a special voice-to-text phone that displays on a screen what callers say to him.  Hopefully, I'll be able to understand the instructions.

Have a good rest of the day, all!

I like my iPhone that puts the sound directly into my ears.  Still reading would be easier at times.

Unless the voice recognition software can't understand the person calling.  One displayed voice mail message was almost half [unintelligible].  I couldn't even understand a lot of what the guy was saying!

I have had a few of those.