Mostly Apolitical Thread for Discussing/Venting our Rational/Irrational COVID-19 Fears and Experiences in 2020

in my now-ended store-perusing days, I didn't see any Clorox/Lysol wipes. Has anyone seen them in Brooklyn this week?

Yeah sorry I was meaning self-isolating as in, not going out at all. Eating your stored food etc, or getting friends to deliver. Some friends are doing this due to 'having symptoms' ie a cough that's probably not it but playing safe.

As opposed to social distancing, which is staying home except for essential trips to groceries/doctor/meds etc and also walking/running about but keeping away from people, which is the minimum we should be doing.

I got some latex gloves today as I figured shopping trolleys would be where virus germs like to play. I try to keep my phone in my pocket and not touch it while I'm out and about, wash hands when I get in, wipe down shopping packages like milk cartons etc.

And in my 1-2 minute trip out into the wilds of my building, I passed uncomfortably close to three different people (partly because some brain genius hired movers today, so there's a new couple of potential vectors running unchecked through the building rn). So yeah basically fuck this ever leaving the apartment bullshit.

https://nypost.com/2020/03/18/chic-hamptons-food-stores-ransacked-by-the-wealthy-amid-coronavirus-pandemic/

Amazing.

^they can perish first, and i'll stick to that

> business was up 500 percent last Friday

And tomorrow? Next week? The week after?

Doesn't 'ransacked' generally mean stealing?

From a GP, quoting a patient: “I had a slight cough and temperature, so I thought I should get some food in at the supermarket before self-isolating.”

Went to the co-op this morning and the strange thing was the pre-processed sandwich section, which was full. Maybe they'd just restocked it.

I got everything I went out for except Ryvita but it took two shops. I walk past two on the way home from work so normally just buy stuff as it runs out so it's odd buying a week's worth all in one go. But I won't need to go out again until Wednesday.

My friend has cv and is isolating, his wife is beginning to feel unwell. My colleague's wife has it. My son's boss has it. I feel it closing in all around us.

I got pretty mad at a friend of mine who essentially publicly wrote "I have had a dry cough the last two days *shrug*" and then went to Disney twice before it closed with her husband.

I don't think she wound up having it but it's like....come on.

my bestie is on like day 4 of a low grade fever at this point, she's done the right thing and stayed home. and while she was working, she was going out of her way to be clean and disinfect things (she works at a dealership) and lobbying the place to take things more serious. she's angry enough that she said "when this is all over, I may be done with this place - I don't like how they handled this at all".

so proud.

Not sure if this is the best thread to ponder this but ... if someone was a qualified health care professional in the UK and their current small workplace was likely to close (temporarily but possibly for a while) due to people self-isolating but mostly childcare, what would the most useful redeployment of those still able to work be, and how would that happen? (Thinking a mixture of Occupational Therapists, Social Workers, Mental Health Nurses and case-workers).

I’ve had a cough for like a week but consistently no fever - until today it went up to 99.5 so I’m currently shitting bricks. Everything I read describes it as a “dry” cough and I’m absolutely coughing out snot which is the only thing keeping me even slightly sane.

It’s not unlike dozens of other illnessses I’ve had but it’s the worst time to get something like this especially after being locked in for a week now and all the reduced morale and joy that goes along with that.

it seems like a lot of us will get this eventually

am just idly wondering if milk is going to be available in stores again at some point

bought milk here yesterday

My small cornershops continue to have everything

A friend just posted a photo she took of some protesters outside a local Walmart here (in Tennessee). It was a church group with homemade signs and they were basically saying COVID is all made up hysteria and we just need to trust in Jesus and not listen to the government.

mine never lot milk. I was surprised at how full the dairy section was the other day.

but it definitely has lost every Lysol product known to man

xpost fuck Jesus, hope he gets it and dies too.

Fuckheads

There are these people, though

https://southernchristians.org

We did a grocery run this morning, the paper products were still running low (we were able to get a limit-one-per-customer box of Kleenex) and the produce and bread were pretty ravaged, but the milk seemed in decent supply. Pasta was cleared out, people stocking up on the nonperishables.

We bought more than usual because we're all eating all our meals at home now, but didn't do anything too crazy. We did buy a lot more cheese than usual, because c'mon. At least we can have cheese.

xpost Tracer -- and good folks they are.

Oregon report, noon: We now have a shelter in place "request" for the state

I found bleach at the second supermarket, plenty of milk it seems, no paper products or sanitizer/wipes anywhere

shelter in place only works when it's not a request, ffs government.

so I posted earlier this week jokingly about how my mom would nag me to go onto dating sites soon.

welp...happened five minutes ago.

I mean at least I don't have to worry about whether to have sex by the third date, we'll be dating in cars six car lengths apart.

I know a place where no cars go

I mean at least I don't have to worry about whether to have sex by the third date, we'll be dating in cars six car lengths apart.

While walking home from the post office this morning I had the thought that this is gonna be a gold rush for camgirls...at least until nobody has a job anymore.

welcome to our new economy, where camgirls are the new 1%

imagining the lobbyists now

all nude fast food restaurants legalized

sex offered as secondary service at normally neutral businesses like Car Washes

gamer girl bathwater is the new moët

On my mental-health walk today, I saw and heard a woman on the other side of the road literally pleading with her mom on a cell phone (she dropped to one knee at one point) not to open the door, it was a scam, and that she should call 911 immediately. The woman looked to be in her early 50s, so the mom is probably late 70s or into her 80s. Thinking of the venality that's brought out by some people in times like this, sounded grim.

:( that's awful

dear friend of mine in Santa Cruz is now looking for a new place to stay, she lives with 12 other people and has a job as a caregiver for an elderly disabled woman, others in the house are apparently not on board with social distancing despite the literal life-or-death consequences.

charming

Dating ain't what it used to be, is it Amigo?

xps

you need to play the long game with online dating now. Many months of online conversation with no pressure so when you finally meet up it'll be like a nora ephron movie.

i am sure there have to be camgirls covering themselves in hand sanitizer and then diligently cleaning doorknobs.

Link?

still kicking myself that I left a small box of Kleenex and my WFMU water bottle in the office two Friday ago, sure i'd at least be back once more. possibly going to be cut loose next week.

for the moment, I care about seeing as many films as possible b4 I die; sad but true.

otoh, my only family is about 90 miles away; uncertain if i'll ever see them again. Just too dangerous for me to travel.

https://i.ibb.co/ynGCCn4/69f6b95e-91f3-469b-84b0-fe49773eeec9-5b6c6e867bf801a93d059d689a658871c9528a47.jpg

xpost :( sorry to hear all that Morbs.

Yeah likewise Morbs, that sounds rough. I hope you get to see a lot more movies.

alas I am Irish-American and may not get my dick sucked again either xp

It does sound like you are being as cautious as can be now. I hope CT isn't completely of the question yet?

Anyway hang in, we got another b'day a month from today and I expect to e-toast you

thanks bud <3

not out of the question, but I don't see it as an improvement... today