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

what's the best way to put together a will quickly? i know there are do-it-yourself options but any that are better than others?

That's tough to hear Karl, and I don't know what the answer is. I do know that pushing back on this stuff never works, the only way in is to sort of agree with them and try and build on that and finesse them ("what if its a chinese bio weapon designed to take out lots of people?") but even thats unlikely to work. I don't know, but I think any answer has to be something along the lines of completely agreeing with them and saying the logical conclusion to that is physical distancing? Or asking them if what they're saying means you should physical distance

I've tried countless times now to explain my elderly mum the gravity of this situation and it hasn't worked. You can only do your best, which is exactly what she keeps saying to me when I say why the hell aren't you taking self-isolation seriously? She thinks it will all be over in a month at which time I'll look like a rather silly alarmist windbag and be embarrassed for making such a big fuss over nothing. I'm ready for the worst news because up until a couple of days ago her partner (who lives in a separate house) has been going to pubs, peak time buses, a casino and the public library just about every day and says i talk a load of bollocks because I said he should be barred from her house for being such an irresponsibly reckless spreading renegade. He really ought to know better and he nearly died of pneumonia himself a decade ago.

Mordy this is explicitly not the thread for it but the “economic loss” visited upon a country will be differently distributed according to how fucked or not its safety net is, which to my mind is very definitely part of “the system”, the entire web of precarious work, poor health care, no sick leave, derisory unemployment money etc and the failure of that system is being revealed just as inexorably by this crisis as the casino banking system was revealed by the collapse of the housing market in 2007/8; i reckon this one touches more people and will be harder to “fix” as technical solutions are largely unavailable. the only proper solutions involve confrontations on an ideological scale not seen since the 1930s

in other news I’m feeling healthy and have only thought about throwing my kids out the window twice today so far

Tracer otm

On the economy, not on the kids

My father-in-law, a mathematician but also an evangelical Christian, has gone snowflake on this, whining about the overreaction and saying that if his dumb university locks him out of his office then he’ll just quit teaching his courses. He’s also afraid that the Dems might win because of this and make public universities free, threatening his dumb private university’s continued viability. He’s happy to see people out shopping (this is west Michigan which explains a lot) rather staying home like sheep. He is normally extremely quiet and mild, so this is all quite alarming. We’ve know he’s right-wing (writes in Colin Powell for president every election) but...well, boomer.

Does this spread worse in rain or shine?
Does every heatwave mean more people automatically congregating in a virocentric manner?

Lost my shit yesterday at the news of my mother's neighbour deciding that yesterday was the day to invade her personal space with some complete next-door-neighbour bullshit. The neighbour in question came back off a cruise a few days ago (!!!) and is by all accounts one of the people who thinks this is all blown out of proportion.

Have generally been keeping it together pretty well and the social distancing thing has been going as best it can, probably, but that was the first everyday thing to have made me genuinely furious.

xpost - it's going to be a problem when the sun really comes out, yes. Especially in Britain where people go crazy at the sight of the sun.

Would've thought rain would wash it out of the air and make it harder for droplets from coughing etc to stay airbourne outside. And it would also probably encourage people to stay home xp

Wondered if it would stay infectious and just be spread to more surfaces if it was being washed around places.
BUT yeah would think there would be less social contact in the rain

THis POdcast Will Kill You have a new edition out about the Covid virus so hopefully learn a lot more about it and its roots from that.
Do like taht show, you even get a dedicated drink in every episode
https://open.spotify.com/episode/7EzIZ0RGki7tXiJAwVywry?si=8WM2LkWuRqGygg-FqHQ5dQ
is it on Spotify, I think it's probably carried by other services.

they should use crop dusters to spray everywhere with bath crystals so that when it rains it would give everything and everyone a nice wash down and smell lovely too

you could leave stashes of kitchen towels in places so that people could dry their hands afterwards and avoid using hot air dryers.

Have been surprised tahtthis didn't seem to have caught on in a number of teh public toilets I used since teh start of the outbreak since I think the hot air dryers just spread whatever diseases further

death by airblade

People who have just come back from cruises should be rounded up and sent back on cruises.

Cpost to mattDC

I think I will have forgotten what an egg looks like by the end of all this.

indeed, when will it be ova?

guys come on, look on the sunny side

Beat it

are we doing a compilation albumen tho

Look on the bright side: we can now use that F. Scott Fitzgerald quarantine meme as a Turing test for morons.

NPR saying this morning "well of course ppl can't stay home for 18 months"

I AM, COME GET ME

This is v good

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0877mb2

I hate to go back to toilet rolls but they are disappearing instantly, en masse, every single day, are there new people buying toilet rolls or, as I suspect, is it people who already have more than enough toilet rolls buying even more?

I hope it's because there are fewer deliveries of bog roll because the trucks are full of actual food and cleaning shit.

No, I'm pretty sure it's not that.

Also has the ibuprofen thing been settled one way or another? There are shelves full of ibuprofen lying, unsold, and there is not a paracetamol tablet to be seen anywhere.

Not to imply that bog roll is food of any sort, actual or otherwise. xp @ me.

People are buying them to resell. Groupon in my area is 90% toilet roll and has been for three weeks.

I just went on the nhs 111 site for guidance and one of the things they say is that it hasn’t been established that ibuprofen exacerbates it but not to take it just in case, stick to paracetamol

Why is there no paracetamol in the shops?

Because the paras 'ete 'em all.

Thanks. I'm here all week. Literally.

One day I did make sure I was at my local Boots when it opened at 8 in the morning so I could buy some paracetamol and, of course, the locusts descended and everyone was stuck in a queue 2 inches apart, restricted to one packet per person.

I suspect the prices in the Turkish shop I was in today were bumped up from a week ago too.

I noticed another shop was selling 6 eggs for, like, £2.50.

A friend delivered enough t.p. to me yesterday to last a couple months

I do take meds than can (but haven't) lead to 'problems'

Also has the ibuprofen thing been settled one way or another? There are shelves full of ibuprofen lying, unsold, and there is not a paracetamol tablet to be seen anywhere.

I've managed to find quite a few boxes of flu/cold tablets which all contain paracetamol

All the healthcare people I know in real life are saying to err on the side of caution and do paracetamol. But if you are already being prescribed something, to consult your doctor.

I found all this old acetaminophen + codeine and another high dose brand of paracetamol that I was prescribed, filled and never took. I figure that is the backup plan if I run out of regular stuff.

Typical that just as there's an opportunity to really dig into that Tangerine Dream box set you can't get any DXM.

I found a load of cocodamol that was my wife's from before they upgraded her to morphine, so I guess that's what I'll take if I do get the 'vid. Think there might still be a box of regular paracetamol somewhere.

I actually managed to get an Ocado delivery slot tomorrow, dunno how much will actually be in stock though I did manage to add some TP!

I just put in our very first Instacart order ever this morning (after trying and failing all day yesterday to get an available delivery time) and couldn't schedule anything earlier than Saturday. We're pretty well set on essentials so no worries on that front, but I'm starting to fret about how I'm going to make three beers last until then. Intoxicants are a must in these trying times.

The eggs thing makes no sense at all, we aren't going to run out of eggs at any time soon unless this thing starts killing chickens.

I dunno, I heard they blew up the chicken man in Philly last night.

what's the best way to put together a will quickly? i know there are do-it-yourself options but any that are better than others?

― buzza, Monday, 23 March 2020 04:30 (nine hours ago)

I am not a lawyer (are you in the US?) but the templates they have online are totally fine if your estate is simple. The important part is having the 2? witnesses to sign all copies.

Ha josh

lol josh

The problem isn't the chickens, it's the distribution chains

I’ve had more eggs this week than any week in years probably, sorry Tom

The other day I was once again tempted by a beer52 “we miss youuuu” coupon so I signed up again and have a case of 10 craft beers for £10 on its way. Before anyone starts I am obviously not going to have them now, but I’m hoping they are gonna be tasting great a week or so from now

The one thing that we subscribe to and have delivered to our door once a month is some eco toilet paper made from bamboo pulp and I have no idea why we started doing this but not complaining rn tbh