 Okay, we're back for live in the two o'clock clock. I'm Jay Fidel. This is sync tech. This is community matters on think tech. This is an analysis of our sync tech may survey, which was locked down snapshots of snapshots of life in lockdown. That's the COVID lock down. And Catherine nor and myself, we do this every, every month I guess we do this to analyze the answers here so you can get a handle, you can learn as we learn from the survey reports I really like doing these I think it's very important that we sort of stay in touch with people and then develop this kind of anonymous testing of how people feel. Welcome to the show Catherine. Aloha Jay. Thank you for having me. It's great to be talking about what people are doing. Um, snap snapshots of life during the lockdown is, you know, it's actually during a defined period, you know, in the, in the history of the COVID. Because I, you know, this is this is what was happening before the reopening really got traction. But I think it's very interesting because we may go back to locked up soon enough. So this is useful in terms of appreciating how people, how people treated the lockdown at least at that time. So the first question is simple question. Are you working? Why don't you tell me what the answers were. Well, it looks like it looks like the majority are working at home. 59.57 are working from home and 14.89% are working in their regular place of work. There has been those responding only about 1% were terminated or furloughed and other was around 24%. Yeah, I want to tell you what was in the other. These are the comments that was in the other. One is fellow said, he was retired, stopped working three years ago, but it says he retired in December. The other said I'm working at home and occasionally at a place of work and said I'm retired, retired, retired, retired, a lot of people were retired. And so you have to take that in conjunction with the question in general, but I think the lesson, the lesson here is the people who were working, working at home. And maybe they need to keep their, their home office in place because they may not be returning to the office for a very long time, if this continues. Okay, let's go let's go to the next one. This question is, how are you spending your time at home. And there's a bunch of, you know, a possibility that you could check more than one here. So what kind of response that we get on this one Catherine. Well, we've got working remotely is 70.70% doing volunteer work 34% exercising 63% those are people that are probably working and exercising. And then there's some pursuing resources or government benefits those are about close to 11%. There's only about 4% looking for work. And there's close to 40% taking care of their family, only about 11% are homeschooling. And then there's about 60% going online I think everyone does that but you know, that's where that's only 60% and watching broadcast online, about 50% for online entertainment. And on the phone, 41%, maybe that's for work or for other things and about 40% are doing creative things. Okay, let's look at the individual comments on that. Okay. Yard work, gardening, planting lots of flowers and veggies, home maintenance, yard work, victory gardening, updating my business website, creating new businesses that's interesting. So those were the, you know, the open comments. Okay. So what that tells us I guess that a lot of people were working at home working remotely at home, and that they're good for them. They were doing volunteer work and exercise. They spent a lot of time on going online and I guess that's not working but just, you know, reading and communicating. And a lot of people were watching TV. And family. So this is actually tells us that it was, it was a healthy time in the, in the, you know, in the context of COVID. This was a pretty healthy time people were doing a mix of things and the right things. The next question is what broadcast or online entertainment. Are you watching here at home in our snapshots of your life and lockdown. You want to tell us the answers. Well, the vast majority are watching news and documentaries and movies and entertainment. We only have a little bit watching religion and a very small portion watching sports. Even fewer that are not watching at all. Yeah, I find what's interesting about the bar is that bar graph is that news and documentaries is more. That's what 82 and change. Then movies and entertainment. So I have this vision in like in my house that when the news comes on in the evening or sometimes in the afternoon, depending everybody's focused on learning what's going on in our in our crazy country. You know, this may change. I can tell you personally that I was very interested in the news early on and I was glued to it but I've kind of gotten tired of it and I'm not watching it much anymore. I'm in the same place Kath is so interesting. And maybe you know I say to myself why am I not watching the news as much as I was watching it earlier and the answer is something like, you know, I've already heard it. Totally. Yeah, yeah, it's news but it's just like it was before. Yeah, it's not changing much so I'm seeking out entertainment more than I was before and not worried if I miss a day or two of news. I can look at, you know, today on Twitter I just look before we came on. They've, they've identified a possible new virus from pigs in China that could end up being another pandemic so you know it. I don't know if I want to hear that. That's another factor who wants to watch news it's always bad news. Exactly, you know I want some good news. Okay, I want to have kittens and puppies. Okay, those are. Okay, I want to tell you the open comments now. Somebody said, he or she watches me TV and start TV that's interesting. YouTube, interesting, at least one person. And he always another one YouTube for kids. And here's a third one, YouTube topics of interest on YouTube. You can learn an awful lot on YouTube, and you can watch all of think deck on YouTube. Cooking shows my wife does that a lot of cooking shows. Here's one, mostly free cultural live stream. I guess that's on on the web opera dance music and lessons. We're having a we're having a dance show, an India Bollywood dance show this afternoon at 4pm. Anyway, culture is good. It goes on positivity and mediation workshops, one person said, strike back I don't know what that means. You know what means strike back. No idea. How to videos and indeed, we know that we know from Google and YouTube that how to videos are the most popular videos on on YouTube. Ah, here's one guy said think tech away good for him. All right, here's another one that said Stephen Colbert podcasts. Here's another one that said think tech away. Wow. We got a lot of stuff on there and it's, it's all useful. And some of it is really cutting edge to. Okay. And so what do we learn here we learned that movies and entertainment and news and documentaries are the way people watch, not so much religion. That's interesting. And maybe it's a, it's a sample of the viewing audience. Anyway, you know, right. Okay, what do you, this is question for what are you doing online. And here again people could select all that apply can you give us the answers. Okay, well, obviously, as you see here vast majority are email and video conferencing I believe many people learned all about zoom during this period of time. email was 95% approximately and video conferencing about 85% social media about 53% 3% working remotely 68% applying for benefits about 9% and shopping about 45% newspapers and newsletters about 88% and education about 38% magazines and books 19% and games 17% research. So interesting research. It's a it's an open category but you can research anything. Maybe that's the same thing as no it's not the same thing is shopping. It's, it's like, it's, what's the word it's just, it's surfing the net. It's what it is. Or maybe asking questions about COVID. Oh, actually, that's probably it. Yeah, I'm sure that people are there checking on things like the other day I researched the where all the cases were in the world, and the percentage verse, you know, of cases versus population and all of that and I'm sure others are doing similar that they can make decisions on their own, rather than relying on news sources. Yeah. And actually, I find this interesting is that newspapers and newsletters are less than social media. And less way less than research. So, I guess what that tells us, let me jump to a conclusion here is that newspapers and newsletters are losing ground against other ways people spend their time getting news. And then you shouldn't wonder why newspapers are firing staff and some closing. Sure. And you know, when I get my daily newspaper it's pretty thin. I would say that what I can get online and and on, you know, news channels is a little bit more significant. Well, I guess my my general view with this is that people have a diversity of interests and they are doing lots of different things online. Some of them maybe more than they should and other other things maybe less than they should but every every one of the alternatives that we gave them on the survey had some response. Yeah, but applying for benefits was was probably the smallest category. I think that's reflective of our audience to and who responded to the survey because we do have a large unemployment rate and I don't think that the results do necessarily reflect that. But at least we know that there are some that are, you know, that do respond that are actually within that category and providing information about what they're doing. I would have expected, maybe it's more efficient than I think I would have expected more on shopping, although we have a healthy, healthy percentage is 45% or so on shopping. And, you know, as time goes by, we have all found that shopping is pretty efficient when you buy from a, you know, incredible source, and, you know, you don't really have to leave your house to check. But, you know, they're delivering everything now. Long stroke store delivers safe way delivers. I keep hearing about these stores that are delivering that, you know, and of course best buy delivers. So you can sit at home and order things online and live your whole life that way. That's where it's coming to. I think some of these things will survive the coven time. Although some people want to get out of their house and the only way they can really do that is go to the store so I, you know, it's kind of a mixed and sometimes it takes during the coven period, the, you know, some of the period of time it was very lengthy getting something delivered from a farther place. And sometimes the weights were much longer if it wasn't something essential. Yeah, true. And the stores have gotten into it now. And they, they're more efficient at it as quicker. Here's some of the comment responses. Thank you for talent. I'm not sure what kind of talent upgrading my website. It sounds like the last answer. YouTube submitting articles to magazines, news channels, etc. Oh, this, this tells you a lot update on coven. That's what, that's what a thinking user thinking online user would do he would, he would check out the latest he would see what's what's going on. Although the truth is, when you're talking about therapeutics and vaccines, there's a lot of noise out there but no hard copy. Oh, this is interesting in one person. He checks out the US Department of Education and the Hawaii DOE. I don't fully understand that but that's, that's what he was, or she was spending time at. Okay, good. Very interest. Okay, our next question. Who are, who are you video conferencing with. The vast majority are friends family and co workers friends and co workers are at about 59% equal family about 48% and healthcare professionals, about 15% and then tech support professionals which sort of cracks me up is about 9%. And then what was interesting about that is zero said no one I don't like to video conference so that tells you something and then another and the other one is no one I don't have the equipment to video conference that was about 3%. Yet they were able to respond to the survey, and then other is a very large amount and that's 38%. Yeah. I'm looking at the no one I don't like the video conference actually that was zero zero point zero zero you see it. Okay, now individual responses some, you know, comment type responses was a lot of my needle point guild members this person said to needle point conducting a workshop. Business business whatever that means. Students, I teach college. Rory club. And be an eye chapter. Be an eye. I actually attended a B and I meeting as a guest it's a kind of a referral network type of thing and it's kind of an, they do a pretty slick zoom conference. One community organizations is one, my Hawaii Hawaiian language class, and then this one industry associations and groups. So that really tells us a lot. It tells us is an awful lot of video conferencing going on with an awful lot of people it's actually, although it looks like coworkers and they're about the same within a very small tolerance of each other and family of course. But there's a lot of other going on and that's, that's interesting. I think people are getting into the habit of using zoom, where they might be using a phone before you. And I do Zumba on zoom and exercise on zoom. So that's a big part of what I do on zoom. Yeah, my wife does hula lessons. I'm not kidding on zoom with a class. Great. And she does ukulele lessons. Okay, how are you getting your food select all that apply. So what kind of answers did we get the majority are going to food stores. And then, second, that was take out and 84% are going to food stores 60% going to take out restaurants on 15.96% are getting food from family and friends, and then only about 14% are having groceries and others about 12% and then 11% is shopping online and picking groceries up 10% is getting deliveries from take out restaurants and zero are getting food from a food bank or charity however I'm thinking that the reason for that response is because those people are not answering the survey. They're not in the, in the, the covered crowd that's what it is. And I guess, let me look at the individual comments here. Second. There are no individual wait, yes, there are. Okay, here we go. Gardening. I'm going to prepare meals with fresh and some frozen produce and meats Costco, depleting the emergency supplies in my pantry and freezer. Well, well prepared farmers markets to support local farmers. We're going to market and home cooking. Living with daughter, an excellent cook with three very young kids. Going to food store with limited frequency. Pick and shovel in the garden. Informal bordering, bordering of cooked and baked foods with a neighbor, we have that farm to car is one, and wife shops at food stores. Sure, because some people they're responding based on themselves and maybe someone else in their family is doing that, going to the store, whatever. I really, I really like in my neighborhood, by the way, people come around, they actually come around. And this is old style, why style yeah. And they, and they give you food. And it's, it's not because, you know, you actually have to have the food, but they just want to be a loa. And they are. I really love that about people in Hawaii. That's fantastic and I'm just hoping someone will knock on my door with chocolate chip cookies. Make a note of that. Okay, here, this is an easy one. How well are you eating. Well, what are the answers on that one Catherine. Okay, people are saying that they're eating right that's the vast majority. And that's 78% only 19% are eating too much or claim they're eating too much and 2% I'm not eating enough and zero said I don't have enough to eat and I think that we have a lot of respondents who are very, they, they perceive that they're eating right and don't think that they're eating too much. It's self interested isn't it there's a conflict going on. You know, if you if you believe that you're eating right then you'll say you're eating right, but you may not in fact be eating right. I'd really like to know what they're eating I think they're having probably too many Oreos. This actually reminds me of one of those delivery services was a neighbor of mine. They, they go online. And they go on the Safeway website and they order every little thing from Safeway, every little thing like they would spend an hour in the store doing this, and then Safeway delivers every little thing. That's really and the delivery charges like minimal. Yeah, this this I think that's coming. If that is a safe way can continue to do it. I live in a safe way so if I did that it would be a real cop out. It would be you wouldn't even walking down the block. Okay how much exercise are you getting what are the answers we got on that one. Okay, most people are exercising every day or every few days so the exercise every day. Almost 44% those exercising every few days or 36% so that adds up to about 80% so most people are exercising, then you've got about 6% exercising every week and about 6% exercising less than weekly which is not really that much. Only 5% are not getting any exercise and and none were not able to exercise and other is 2%. So you've got a vast majority that are exercising and this tells me that people understand that it's important to exercise and are getting out or exercising at home. I'm not wondering if they're telling the truth. You know what I think a lot of them are walking, because if you're stuck at home. What are you going to do you're going to go out and take a walk and maybe you really didn't do that that much before but you got to get out of your house and you can safely go for a walk so I think a large portion of that 80% are walking. And that's the magic thing walking, because everybody can well listen to everybody but most people can walk and it's easy to do and it has such benefits for you, even slowly. Indeed, the other comments, the two of them. One says, just walking right on point. And the other one says, got injured so exercise only a little as much as I can, because of the industry, but only as can do to injury. Right. Well, I think we I think we have some, some good numbers on this one. People are exercising I think they all know that they have to, as a matter of health. It doesn't cost anything. And so this is this is good we have a way you want to call it a healthy minded community. Anyway, the weather is good and people want to get outside you probably have people going to the beach and getting in the water to, you know, but there's probably others that are actually lifting weights with weights to have at home, those kind of things or, or bicycling. Right we have one called are you wearing face masks. Can you talk about the answers to that. Okay, on this one. Okay. The, I wear a face mask only when I'm outdoors away from home, that's 34%. I wear a face mask when I'm indoors, or outdoors away from home 31%. I wear a face mask away from home, only when I think I'm at risk. 19% other 12%. I don't think face masks are necessary only 2%. I wear a face mask, both at home and away from home 1%. And I have a face mask but I do not wear them zero. I wear a face mask, but I don't know where I would wear a face mask but I don't know where to get them zero. Yeah. Most people are wearing face masks. And in Hawaii we do have good compliance with that. Okay, here are the comments. I wear a mask when I go to stores. I wear a face mask when I go into stores or public areas with other people. Since the mass protects others from me I stay home to reduce my risk. Good. Stores and outdoors. And finally, I wear a face mask when shopping and when volunteering at a church office. Good. I want to know how many wear them properly and not wear them under their nose or under their chin. That's a really good question. There are a lot of people who who wear them as as throat masks. It doesn't cover their nose or their mouth. Really, really they should use them properly. It's obvious that you want to cover your mouth and nose both. Otherwise, you're not getting nobody's getting the benefit, not you or the people around you for sure. Okay, we're getting closer to the end now. Next question. Have you been ill? Very interesting, because if you're if you're holed up in a lockdown, theoretically, hopefully, you shouldn't be ill too much because you're not trafficking with any antigens. So what were the answers on this one? The vast majority, no. They haven't been ill 91%. There is 5% who have had an illness other than COVID. I've been hospitalized with an illness other than coronavirus zero. I've been ill with coronavirus zero. I've been hospitalized with coronavirus zero. I've been ill, but I don't know if it's coronavirus 1%. I've been hospitalized, but I don't know if it was coronavirus zero other 2%. Okay, and other is, you know, there's two responses here worth mentioning. One is I did go to the emergency room in February with breathing issue and congestion. We don't know if that was COVID, but I doubt it because if it had been COVID, that person wouldn't said so. This is an anonymous survey. One said he was, she was sick with flu-like symptoms in January, in January. Again, no reference to whether it was COVID. I doubt it was. Okay, next one. Has someone in your household been ill? Same question, but now we're asking about anyone else in the household. What are the answers to that one, Catherine? The last majority, no. No one has been ill in their household. That's 89%. Only 5% said someone in the household has had an illness other than coronavirus. And then 1%, someone in the household had been hospitalized with an illness other than coronavirus. 1% said that someone in their household had been ill with coronavirus. And then zero for someone in my household has been hospitalized with coronavirus. Zero for someone in my household has been ill, but I don't know if it was coronavirus. And 3% was other. So we've got mostly no one had been ill. Now we have one of those comments. He or she says, so I mentioned this is probably the person who answered the previous question with a comment. So I mentioned I was ill in February for five weeks, but no one else in my household has been sick. That's one. I am the only one in my household. Okay, well, then that question doesn't really apply. And the last one is I live alone. Same thing. Okay, let's go a little further here. Question 12, have you been tested for coronavirus? What are the answers on that one Catherine. Okay, the vast majority was, I have no symptoms and have not been tested that was 86%. Those who were tested and found negative were 4%. Those who were tested and found positive zero. And then those who were had symptoms and had not been tested were 4.3%. Those who were tested and don't know how to get tested 1%. And only 2%. I don't want to be tested. Other was 2%. So the people who don't want to be tested, that's very interesting. And just a fraction I want to be tested but I don't know how to get tested. You know, you don't notice the moment you're born it's not intuitive. You actually have to do some research and make some calls and call health providers that's how you find out. I wonder what do you think with this the answer to this question, be the same today. What the government tells us is a greater and easier access to testing. I could get tested half a block from where I live because there's a testing center. I don't know I don't think it's that hard but I don't know if they test everyone. I think you have to have a basis for being tested like anything if you want an MRI of your of any part of your body you have to have something that warrants, or justifies the MRI same with x-rays you can't just get tested for anything for no reason. It costs money costs money. It's also not appropriately it's not reasonably medically appropriate. I mean there's there standards in medicine and it doesn't fit the standard if you don't have the symptoms. There may not be the case everywhere I think there are many places in the world where if you if you're anxious, you can go get tested. Okay, the comments I have been I have been tested for antibodies, and I'm awaiting results that's that's very avant garde. Another one is I have not been tested, but would like to. That's interesting. I want to go to find out more about it. There was a piece on television the other day about the antibody test was it's on 60 minutes just yesterday. There was a, you know, there are a lot of scams in the antibody testing everybody wants them. If you have the antibodies that are generated by the virus as a result of the virus, and they're not reliable, some very small percentage of them are reliable, but most of them are not quite reliable. It was very interesting piece. It left you with said, do I really need this? Sure. Because you can't be sure. It doesn't tell you with any great degree of accuracy way, whether you have the disease, it only tells you whether you have the antibodies that would have resulted from the disease. And you don't know how long those antibodies would work. Okay, we have. Oh yeah, I have some comments on that one. Handling it but increasingly frustrated over irrational and inflexible restrictions. I guess this person really wants. Okay, sorry, wrong question. Okay, let me ask the question first. The question we're dealing with is, how is your state of mind. Can you give, can you give us the answers on that Catherine. 20% are feeling fine 20 about 29% say I'm handling it. Only 12% say I'm troubled but I'm still okay. Zero said that I think I need to talk to a professional and only 2% said other so most people are either feeling fine or handling it. Another one said handling it but increasingly frustrated over irrational and inflexible restrictions. I guess he's talking about government or maybe business restrictions and another one said this is interesting being very candid with us. He said I've been depressed and frustrated, not able to see family on mainland. And, and I can't read the word and old friends depressed. That makes sense. I sympathize with that. Yeah. So, you know, one of the issues is, okay, maybe it's better maybe it's worse your state of mind, but 100% should say it's different. My way of looking at the world is different. It's better or worse. Okay, question 14 I think we're almost we have 15 all together so let's let's be let's finish them 14 do you have enough money to continue to shelter in place. What are the answers on that one. Okay, those who have enough for one month or more 7% those who have enough for two months or more or 6%. Those who have enough money for three months or more 12%. Those who have enough for more than three months or 54%. Those who run out of money when they're lost their job or zero and those who haven't had money for some time or zero other is about 19%. I think the vast majority are people that are working and can continue to get money. And so this doesn't reflect more savings but the fact that they. They're working and they can continue to live off of what their income is. Okay, here are the comments. I still have my job, as you suspected. I'm receiving a paycheck as an essential business. Same thing. I limit my spending in general. That's very interesting. So, tighten your belt, a common approach. And here, I'm on social security. I periodically sell a domain. I guess that means a domain name. I just sold micro segmentation.com for $4,000. Wow. Wow. What you should be doing. Interesting. It's like money in the bank, I suppose. People have interesting, you know, what do they say necessity breeds invention. Okay, how is this question 15 how has your life changed since you started sheltering in place. Can you give us the answers. The vast majority of surprising it is my life is pretty much the same. That's 44%. My life has gotten worse is 21.5%. My life has gotten much worse, only 1%. My life has gotten better. Those are those introverts that we've talked about before that's close to 10%. My life has gotten much better. That's 7.5%. And other is 16%. I miss the comments combination of pretty much the same but a little worse since we are home since we are homebound. And my life is better in some ways and worse in others. And I miss my coworkers. I miss my aeronomically correct workstation. I'm going to relate to that. So get one for home. Okay. I have been inconvenienced by having to leave the house to shop for groceries instead of shopping on the way home from work. That's interesting. This person would shop on the way home from work. Okay. And finally, and I go with this one. I'm much busier with work. That's where I am. Yeah, well, it's, it's changed our lives. And for people who enjoy being at home, it's, there's a lot of benefits for those who are can't wait to get away from home and get out. It's more difficult, I think. Catherine, our next survey starts on the 1st of July. And again, last for 15 days. So if anybody listening has a chance, please go to our daily email advisories or our websites, click on the link. You'll be able to take the survey. It's called reopening realities. And it's about the reopening such as it is, and it'll take you like two or three minutes to finish it. And it's well worth it. So if there's no other reason that Catherine and I can discuss it in our next show together, which will be next month. Thank you so much, Catherine. All right. Thank you, Jay.