tbh i am self-isolating just bc i have a sinus headache, which is not uncommon for me to feel when the weather suddenly changes (it was 70 degrees in new york today and it's been unusually dry all weekend). no fever, but i can work from home so why risk it
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 9 March 2020 22:51 (four years ago) link
on a busy college campus, feeling the fear. just used sanitizer.
― sleeve, Monday, 9 March 2020 22:54 (four years ago) link
All right I guess I'm cancelling the lobbying trip to Albany on Wednesday and figuring out what to do with my hands from 8-12pm. Here goes nothing.
― There's more Italy than necessary. (in orbit), Monday, 9 March 2020 22:57 (four years ago) link
You can start touching your face like the rest of us.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 9 March 2020 22:59 (four years ago) link
sew? I made a bookstore/library out of a miniature kit last year. It took me almost a day just to make and upholster the tiny armchair. I have a two story japanese house miniature kit all ready for me right now.
― Yerac, Monday, 9 March 2020 23:00 (four years ago) link
Which reminds me, I need to assemble my sake bring equipment before we go into lockdown.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 9 March 2020 23:01 (four years ago) link
I did see that on the WHO coronavirus prep guide.
― Yerac, Monday, 9 March 2020 23:03 (four years ago) link
I can run out of TP but heaven forbid I run out of Booze.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 9 March 2020 23:08 (four years ago) link
Speaking of prep, friend of mind put together a shopping list + recipes for 2-3 weeks of lockdown: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YAwdt5R0bDl-9aBqfYxzTWZYR1-vAKktO9bZZUSYoL0/edit?usp=sharing
― lukas, Monday, 9 March 2020 23:09 (four years ago) link
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I usually spend those hours reading and drinking wine, which is great but leaves my hands unoccupied and unfortunately goes really well with smoking contemplatively while turing pages. I already tried cooking elaborate meals every day since I'm not working right now, but that made us both fat so that's out. I tried to get C to take up crochet, maybe there's still a boxed kit around somewhere. I predict desperation.
― There's more Italy than necessary. (in orbit), Monday, 9 March 2020 23:09 (four years ago) link
xpost Booze. I could throw a bunch of dinner parties 10xs over OR have the supplies to do makeshift surgery here. Pick one.
― Yerac, Monday, 9 March 2020 23:11 (four years ago) link
in orbit ,caramelizing a huge batch of onions like 2 dozen takes forever, is worthwhile (it freezes well) and is meditative.
― Yerac, Monday, 9 March 2020 23:13 (four years ago) link
Or could make a lot of custard. It’s the stirring really.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 9 March 2020 23:18 (four years ago) link
surely onions kill viruses
― mookieproof, Monday, 9 March 2020 23:19 (four years ago) link
Maybe I’ll finally make some progress on some books and videogames. Tomorrow I shall quit smoking AND ilx!
― El Tomboto, Monday, 9 March 2020 23:20 (four years ago) link
I'll think of something. Crochet or some kind of hand-craft really does seem somewhat likely, kind of the way I play Candy Crush while watching White Collar. Maybe I could rediscover calligraphy.
― There's more Italy than necessary. (in orbit), Monday, 9 March 2020 23:21 (four years ago) link
I’m betting on garlic right now. My last line of defense is the Hunan takeaway.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 9 March 2020 23:21 (four years ago) link
Everyoen I know went to Golden Plains over the weekend (big 3 day hipster music fest out in the bush) and no one seemed wary. I guess I'll find out if 3/4 of Brunswick suddenly falls ill in a week's time.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 9 March 2020 23:25 (four years ago) link
i plan on listening to a lot of jazz fusion
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 9 March 2020 23:28 (four years ago) link
score match is available on the google play store
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Monday, 9 March 2020 23:50 (four years ago) link
i'm also working my way through the resident evil movies again
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 9 March 2020 23:56 (four years ago) link
Coachella postponed to October
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 10 March 2020 01:48 (four years ago) link
No cases within 100 miles that I know of but I decided against a pizza buffet for dinner. There are enough snot-nosed kids in the best of times.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Tuesday, 10 March 2020 01:50 (four years ago) link
Fuckholes:
https://news.avclub.com/defying-all-logic-and-reason-the-world-record-for-larg-1842216045?rev=1583777288023&utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=SocialMarketing&utm_content=Main&utm_campaign=SF&fbclid=IwAR2LyXaKPo4jmlOvovpIKFooAiVDLCFozGhb9NbZjeuqImndMJUTb0aCJXY
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 10 March 2020 01:59 (four years ago) link
Not sure if anyone's posted this page yet:
http://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-cases/
Seems like a good round-up of graphs. A couple of them ("Total Cases excluding mainland China") do look scary.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 10 March 2020 02:20 (four years ago) link
I was able to reserve 12 rolls of toilet paper at Target online to pick up. When I arrived, its surrounding plastic was all torn up as if someone squirreled it away among the rakes in case they needed to come back and buy even more tp for themselves later to clutch tontheir chest while sleeping. Or perhaps a poor employee had to fight off a riot to uphold the validity of the online ordering process and reserve what is rightfully mine. Either way, I made it clear to the nice person that helped me that I am not a prepper, and it's just that our normal household shitting cycle had bad timing.
― latin hypercube in shitspace (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 10 March 2020 03:56 (four years ago) link
so I'm guessing there are going to lots of people walking around unwiped in many cities in the near future?
man, my prospects on Tinder have just improved 200 fold
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 10 March 2020 04:00 (four years ago) link
Is "the human bidet" your occupation?
― latin hypercube in shitspace (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 10 March 2020 04:02 (four years ago) link
already had one friend of a friend grouse that if we let everybody work from home, that's when massive timecard fraud might occur.
it just amazes me that the first thought process is 'how can people take advantage of the system'? Like, I've been a virtual employee for 8 years, and...if you're committing timecard fraud, actually not doing work you're being paid to do....you'll be discovered. It really isn't difficult. Not to mention, if you have the type of job you can do at home, chances are, you could find a way to shirk your responsibilities in the office too.
xpost dear god no I just mean finally I'll be less grody than more than half the population
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 10 March 2020 04:02 (four years ago) link
also more timecard fraud is good
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Tuesday, 10 March 2020 04:11 (four years ago) link
I mean I'm not sayin I once worked an 8 hour shift while secretly on a Greyhound bus to Atlanta to see Megadeth with only my work phone and no laptop in tow but.....
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 10 March 2020 04:12 (four years ago) link
"I'm Too Sexy for This Job" by Time Card Fraud
― latin hypercube in shitspace (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 10 March 2020 04:16 (four years ago) link
From The Great Influenza
In Britain the War Office published recommendations for therapy in The Lancet. They were far more specific than any guidance in the United States, and likely did relieve some symptoms. For sleep, twenty grains of bromide, opiates to relax cough, and oxygen for cyanosis. The recommendations warned that venesection was seldom beneficial, that alcohol was invaluable, but that little could be gained by giving food. For headache: antipyrin and salicylic acid—aspirin. To stimulate the heart: strychnine and digitalis.
― Sanpaku, Tuesday, 10 March 2020 05:15 (four years ago) link
next, a run on white claws
― latin hypercube in shitspace (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 10 March 2020 05:48 (four years ago) link
this may be refractory anxiety from a recent health scare but this whole thing is giving me the fantods. we're prepping for an extended work from home period and I am not looking forward to that amount of isolation
― avellano medio inglés (f. hazel), Tuesday, 10 March 2020 06:18 (four years ago) link
Surely these events are only getting cancelled because the attendees are canceling and dropping below profitable levels, not because any of the promoters care about public health?― change display name (Jordan), Monday, March 9, 2020 5:28 PM (sixteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglinkreplace "attendees" with "sponsors" and i think that's it
― Garu you just posted flange (wins), Tuesday, 10 March 2020 07:12 (four years ago) link
Even if I do have to go into isolation, at least I will be able to sit on my roof and listen to the magpies and currawongs and watch the bats.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Tuesday, 10 March 2020 08:09 (four years ago) link
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1236933818654896129.html
― thomasintrouble, Tuesday, 10 March 2020 08:15 (four years ago) link
italy - entire country in lockdownfrance - time for a smurf festival https://t.co/32UpOnbp8a— the irishman* (@mrgracemugabe) March 9, 2020
"There's no risk (from coronavirus) we're Smurfs!"
― calzino, Tuesday, 10 March 2020 08:30 (four years ago) link
It could be the answer to the pandemic.
― Load up your rubber wallets (Tom D.), Tuesday, 10 March 2020 09:33 (four years ago) link
With every passing day I become more convinced this will kill me.
― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Tuesday, 10 March 2020 10:09 (four years ago) link
Have you considered coating yourself in blue from head to toes?
― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Tuesday, 10 March 2020 10:14 (four years ago) link
I saw those peoplethey were turning blueOh, I knew that soonTheir young lives were through
Smurfing while Rome burns etc.
Well wonder how long its going to be before it's France's turn
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 10 March 2020 10:16 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEl8IBv98vg
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 10 March 2020 11:58 (four years ago) link
I'm not so worried about getting this/what will happen to me if I get this, which is funny because I am usually a super-hypochondriac. But I do worry about being a vector. Selfishly, there are a couple of concerts coming up that I want to go to and I'm feeling bummed about the prospect of maybe missing them if I get sick/them getting cancelled.
― may the force leave us alone (zchyrs), Tuesday, 10 March 2020 12:18 (four years ago) link
To put it another way: if I choose to go to said concerts, I'll feel guilty about not doing my part to support public health lol
― may the force leave us alone (zchyrs), Tuesday, 10 March 2020 12:19 (four years ago) link
i have accepted that i am probably going to be a vector. there's so much we don't know about this virus. it does appear to be more than usually contagious (and less than usually lethal). everything else? how does it spread, how long does it incubate in hosts? we do, we think, have a safe and effective method of testing for it now, but don't have the logistical infrastructure to test most people for it. as far a i can tell all of the advice, and it's good advice - yes you should fucking wash your hands - for containing the pandemic is mostly effective against the secondary pandemic, the panic pandemic, the mass fear that strikes when faced with things that we don't understand and can't really control. panic, there's a topic i do know a lot about and have a lot of experience with, and i'm putting it all to use right now.
― Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 10 March 2020 13:46 (four years ago) link
I am also not that afraid of getting this per se, but am afraid of spreading it and of being an irresponsible person.I also share the more trivial/selfish fear of missing stuff I want to do due to it being canceled/closed or to being quarantined .
Then there is my workplace, which with the foresight, preparedness, and sense of priority I have come to expect, first starting implementing work-from-home procedures just last week. We were told to "test" working from home, but I'm not sure they plan to use this unless the building is actually closed or something. They also told us to stay out of the office if we feel sick, but when I asked if we could then work from home rather than charge sick time, was told "probably not."
In the past few days I've developed a cough-not dry, no other symptoms, and feels pretty identical to coughs I've had many times before (I tend to be a bit of chronic coughed) but still feel uncertainty about going out...
I think there's a thin line between paranoia and denial here.
― MrDasher, Tuesday, 10 March 2020 15:59 (four years ago) link
I also share the more trivial/selfish fear of missing stuff I want to do due to it being canceled/closed or to being quarantined.
Yep, there are several local film screenings in the next couple of months I want to see.
Then there's my mother. She lives alone; I'm not sure if she (or I, for that matter) have comorbidities; I could see her getting sick and being too independent to reach out to me and my sister before things take a turn for the worse.
― Life is a banquet and my invitation was lost in the mail (j.lu), Tuesday, 10 March 2020 16:13 (four years ago) link