Coronavirus Parties-Immunity Building or Deadly? Years ago some parents had what was called pox parties. Thinking that because the chicken pox are more dangerous to adults than to children that they were immunizing their children from a more dangerous case of the illness. Back then there was not a vaccination for the chicken pox. I …
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Quaranteaming to Beat Isolation Blues
Quaranteaming to Beat Isolation Blues What is “quaranteaming”? It’s now the name for what folks are doing to prevent themselves and/or family and friends from having to hunker down alone. How it’s done and a bit about those that are doing it is discussed in our featured article linked below. Here on the Homefront we …
How (and When) to Prepare for Another Possible Lockdown
How (and When) to Prepare for Another Possible Lockdown This featured article is not about whether there will be nor whether there should be another pandemic lockdown. It’s not about the politics of any said lockdown nor your personal views on where the virus came from or even how well your government reacted. It’s about how …
Safely Doing Laundry During a Pandemic, Especially as we Begin to Re-Open
Safely Doing Laundry During a Pandemic, Especially as we Begin to Re-Open Or During and After Any Airborne Crisis Recently our world was hit with a viral pandemic. Passed through the air and upon surfaces from one person to the next and in sadly too many cases particularly among our vulnerable population deadly. Most of …
Dogs, Cats, and Covid-19
Some posts may contain affiliate links. Dogs, Cats, and Covid-19 This virus is not gone now that the lock downs are over. We now just have a leg up on how to treat those who contract it and become very very ill. But it’s mutating constantly. So what about our pets? It’s been said that …
Caring For a Pandemic or Other Compromised Patient at Home
Caring For a Pandemic or Other Compromised Patient at Home Many people are riding out illnesses at home these days both those stricken with covid-19 and other less serious illnesses. Factually it doesn’t really matter what your patient is suffering from, with the advent of the pandemic you need to be protected from them if …
Covid-19 Conspiracy Theories
Covid-19 Conspiracy Theories In every crisis scenario conspiracy theories crop up. Some are utterly ridiculous, while others make you go “hmmm”. Mostly they are made of bits of truth mixed with the ideology of the teller, but there are those that appear to come right out of the blue. It’s hard to know what to …
Will the second wave of coronavirus be even more devastating ?
Will the second wave of coronavirus be even more devastating? The current pandemic of covid-19 a coronavirus has put us all in a crisis. Whether you have lost someone to it or not. If you don’t have the virus, you still need to worry that you will become infected, are an asymptomatic carrier and could …
Is Your Cell Phone Tracking Your “Stay at Home” Compliance?
Is Your Cell Phone Tracking Your “Stay at Home” Compliance? We live in the information age and many of us wouldn’t want to be without our cell phone for even a single day! Even I am pretty attached to my phone and it is an oldie without all the new fangled apps. It’s those new …
A California County Fining Residents $1,000 For Not Wearing Face Masks in Public: Updated
A California County Fining Residents $1,000 For Not Wearing Face Masks in Public Updated Across the globe, there have been several governments that have instituted a “wear a mask” in public policy in response to this pandemic. Some as premediate as the country’s leadership and some as small as your local mayor. What was a …