[Leica] Skyping with the Grands - the New Normal

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

We are skyping with our grandchildren who live 200 metres away! We are now
opn official lock down in Chennai till 31st March....
Cheers
Jayanand

On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 1:52 AM Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote:

> Technology certainly makes the isolation more bearable. Yesterday, I
> played chess with my son on the other side of the Atlantic while chatting
> with him. All at no cost.
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> Cheers,
> Nathan
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> > On 20 Mar 2020, at 05:01, Howard Cummer via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
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> > Here is Esther skyping with the Victoria Grandkids, reading them a
> story. We are self quarantined here on Pender Island and are substituting
> skyping for face to face visits with Clementine and Eloise in Victoria.
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Canada+2020/Pender/DSC_5870.jpg.html
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Canada+2020/Pender/DSC_5870.jpg.html
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> > I am on the Board of the Pender Island Health Care Society - we own and
> maintain the building where all medical services are provided (two doctors
> and one dentist and a host of other services) and on Monday this week we
> had our last face to face Board meeting for some time. The next meeting in
> late April will be done by video conferencing. We are on the search for
> more face masks and hand sanitizer but otherwise all seems reasonably calm.
> The protocol for someone suspected of having the corona virus is to call
> the clinic ahead of time, stay in their car when they arrive and call the
> clinic again and a doctor will come out to interview them in the parking
> lot.
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> > We are an island of retirees - some quite well off - and winter cruising
> is a common past time as well as taking trailers to the southern states to
> avoid the winter.
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> > We believe it is only a matter of time until someone tests positive for
> the virus. Except for the grocery store, the liquor store (naturally) and
> the pharmacy most everywhere else on the island is closed.
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> > In our family our eldest daughter has had her upcoming play in Calgary
> cancelled and the children’s school is closed there. We were planning to go
> to Calgary to babysit Miss O and Aubrey but that is no longer necessary .
> Jenny, my middle daughter in Vancouver who is in the movie production
> business has had two Netflix features cancelled and my youngest daughter in
> Victoria is still self employed with her architectural heritage business.
> Her husband may not have classes to teach after this semester due to lack
> of overseas language students.
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> > My son and his family in Tokyo are hunkered down. Young  Charlie’s
> school is closed. They left Hong Kong permanently just a few days before
> travel restrictions came into force and their shipment of household effects
> is in 14 days quarantine at Yokohama.
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> > We sure do live in interesting times. We were living in Hong kong in
> 2003 when SARs struck the territory and managed to survive that without too
> much inconvenience. We hope (fingers crossed) to do the same this time.
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> > Wash those hands!!
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> > Howard (and Esther).
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