Coronavirus and homemade tools

[Frank S]

We normally go once a month to buy Toilet paper, paper towels and paper plates if needed once every 3 to 5 months to restock our pantry shelves. We are opportunistic buyers when it comes to frozen foods or meats if it is on a major reduced price sale and should we determine there is sufficient extra space in our freezer we will buy a few items KEY word here is few since our freezer is very nearly always near capacity. We plant every spring and harvest through out the summer canning up as much excess as possible, or trading it with some neighbors for things they have grown but we hadn't. This only leaves the things that don't last long periods of time such as bread and milk. Yes I can bake bread if need be but refuse to feed a cow just for the half gallon of milk we might consume in a weeks time.
Essentially we are self quarantined most of the time. save for the infrequent trip to town usually at least once a week but not always.
Since I am 65 and the wife is 74 we fall into that supposed vulnerable age group. In living memory or the 30 years we have been together we both have had the flu once that we remember, also we both have had only 1 flu shot in our lifetimes coincidentally that was the same year we had the flu a few weeks after getting the shot.
She has allergy congestion once in a while but I almost never catch a cold unless possibly after cleaning out an attic or under a house where there is dinosaur dust and ancient rodent feces and my mask wasn't properly sealed. I also almost never wear gloves and probably rub sweat off my face and out of my eyes several times while cleaning this stuff. In these cases I might come down with something for a couple of days. If or when I do contract something I pig out on my homemade hot sauce using chips as a medium to consume it with, consume massive quantities of things very high in vitamin C and eat a lot of honey other than that I ignore any symptoms until they go away.
The way I figure it if I were to contact the COVID-19 I might not even recognize what I have. I don't run to the DR or the ER unless something is obviously broken, leaking more blood than I can stop, or something has punctured me and I'm not sure if I have managed to remove all of it. SO I would probably be near death before I would drive myself to the hospital.