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

ILX, lockdown week 1

I actually prefer Duke.

Peace, man - just want to make sure that this high-quality post doesn't get lost in the kerfuffle. I lolled.

xp lol

sorry to hear about the additional coronavirus layoffs and furloughs upthread. :(

imago I’ve been working from home for three weeks and already got tempanned once in that timeframe

I probably need to be confined further, into a very small warm box ideally

tbf I've been cooped up at home for 2 weeks but I was an Early Responder™

let's sort this one out

silby is a good guy who i would personally be happy to be friends with irl, also i find his posts frequently hilarious. this sort of venting is extremely dramatic but my attitude is less 'FP' and more 'gee whizz', if that isn't too patronising

public law enforcement service in the abstract is a good thing, but as with other forms of public service (education, transport, health, p much anything that isn't firefighting) it could stand to be completely rethought and remodelled

i don't actually think acab. scab, maybe even mcab. idk. the way cops are made to cop often makes them bastards but i can genuinely believe that many of them went into it with noble ideals of public service. this isn't about cops so much about the relationship between capital, the law and the people

whoa that didn't xpost i was expecting it to xpost and then i'd rethink it haha

and when you throw coronavirus into the equation, well, things are hard to predict

To Jesus?

― silby, Thursday, March 26, 2020 2:38 PM (twelve minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah good guy, restored an old car for me once

bunch of cop lovers here

― aaaaaeeeeeeooooooooooo (Left), Thursday, March 26, 2020 3:40 PM bookmarkflaglink

Gtfo with this you sinewy cuntwaffle. Most of us post in the anti-cop thredz

2 posts ever and already gets called a sinewy cuntwaffle. the old days are truly back :)

today was my first day working from home

i never checked my phone so rarely, not in a decade or more

i can only surmise im the only thing holding this board together tbh

tbf 2 posts both exuding v powerful berniebro energy but hey among friends here surely

VPN not working.

Brb, going to hijack a bus full of schoolchildren

the old days were good but you couldnt just get cunty and not get called on it silby, iirc

but they were good

ahhhh. just laying back thinking of a few choice threads now. nice

Neaderthal has a gift for phrase

Guys I’m not gonna lie, I’m thoroughly enjoying every moment of being cooped up inside. I’ve been spending roughly 20 hrs a day in bed except when I have to occasionally go into work and it’s tbh wonderful to feel no guilt about it but instead heroic.

Xxpost ban mickey

I do enjoy no longer having the frequent cognitive dissonance of wanting to stay in vs wanting to make plans and go out. So much easier that the decision is made for me.

Oh I guess I also go out to walk my dog but I don’t even enjoy it, that’s just necessity.

wait what are these fuckwits outside clapping for

they want us to do that here to and I'm mad

I do enjoy no longer having the frequent cognitive dissonance of wanting to stay in vs wanting to make plans and go out. So much easier that the decision is made for me.

― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal),

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZCzJRXvpCg

Guys I’m not gonna lie, I’m thoroughly enjoying every moment of being cooped up inside. I’ve been spending roughly 20 hrs a day in bed except when I have to occasionally go into work and it’s tbh wonderful to feel no guilt about it but instead heroic.

― just1n3, Thursday, March 26, 2020 2:58 PM (twenty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

girl same

ive had a great day, the novelty and the relief of finally being allowed to work from home was a very welcome all-day positive

sinewy cuntwaffle

wait is nobody gonna snap this up?

too fbpe

sinewy cuntwaffle

wait is nobody gonna snap this up?

― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII)

nah man it'll ruin my appetite

when the canned goods are gone

Advice everywhere: Please comfort your children! They are likely more worried than you are! And they'll miss seeing all their friends at school. Don't make them do too much work, they are likely very anxious, give them calming, relaxing activities to enjoy together.

My kids: they do not give a shit, being at home all day suits them fine, if anything this is like a special treat, possible an adventure, more chance to play Minecraft too.

I do think this has taken a toll on children

My girls are putting up a cheerful front but it’s gotta be working them over psychologically.

yes I think it is scarier for kids than they let on, that they worry about infecting their parents

or worry about making a parent sadder, a responsibilty they shouldn't feel but sometimes do despite my fronting

My children are cheerful and bearing up well. My daughter is Extremely Online so she's totally used to not seeing her friends irl. My son misses school but likes the free time.

Me? I am angry at much of the messaging directed parentward, which is either useless or toxic or, somehow, both.

For many children (especially smaller and special needsy) "distance learning" has exactly one meaning: more work for parents. (Which in, lots of families, mostly means moms.)

In other words, people who were already operating at capacity need to increase their capacity. Presumably using magic.

This framing also suggest that any backsliding or failures are therefore the fault of parents (again, mostly moms) not trying hard enough. You must not have downloaded enough worksheets or done enough baking-soda-and-vinegar experiments. Didn't you see all those lists of online resources we sent?

I don't have a solution in mind, and I know it's a distant dream, but just once I would love to see a problem where the solution was "less work for moms."

In the meantime, why don't you consider making another fucking marshmallow-and-toothpick suspension bridge? It's fun AND educational!

splurged on dinner delivery

also got my chain grocery delivery less than 2 hrs later

drowning in food

eat, drink and be merry, morbs!

question for parents here, partic uk parents

i'm working on a daily BBC Bitesize podcast that aims to HELP overworked / overstressed parents point their kids to some stuff online that chimes with the classwork they either would be doing, or have been handed by teachers via Google Classroom etc

so if they're supposed to write 5 paragraphs about Mayan civilisation, the podcast would tell parents about a video that explains Mayan civilisation, or a quiz etc. The idea is to provide a quick 5-10 minutes that gives you a few tools to help out

it's NOT supposed to feel like extra work or whatever. is that someone you would listen to? partic if we made it available on Voice (i.e. Alexa, etc)? in my ideal world it's like a lifeline for parents who don't want the faff of figuring out how to help their kids with bits and pieces they're supposed to be doing for homeschooling

Boris has got it

BREAKING: Prime Minister Boris Johnson has tested positive for #coronavirus.

The PM is reportedly self-isolating in Downing Street but is continuing to lead the government's response to #COVID19.

More on this story: https://t.co/Pto1iKFuZG pic.twitter.com/8UzcEkYcc1

— Sky News (@SkyNews) March 27, 2020

Wrong thread, sorry

#BREAKING Germany has boosted its #coronavirus test rate to 500,000 a week, with the early detection helping to keep the country's death toll relatively low, a virologist says pic.twitter.com/NbDmif5hld

— AFP news agency (@AFP) March 26, 2020

I'm not a parent, but Tracer does it have to be a podcast? They're a terrible format for providing resources compared to a scrollable searchable web page.

Re: cops. Having lived in both the US (discomfort around cops) and the UK (also discomfort around cops tho definitely less so), it is strange where I live now (Portugal) for the first time in my life that my guard doesn't immediately go up when I see cops. They're armed too, though they really can't be firing them very often

fwiw your guard should still go up. they're not gonna shoot you but they will vote for the far-right parties that want to deport you. and the examples of racial violence coming from them are mounting up too.

Andrew that scrollable webpage will exist! We will be telling people to go it it every day! But it will have a lot of stuff on it and maybe not what you want at 8:30 in the morning with your coffee

def see the value in a conservational/flow bitesize podcast myself, forza th

awesome. Let’s see

my cousin's got it. he lives in Brighton, is in his mid-20s I think and has had it a week or so, not doing too bad apparently. I've only met him once so don't know him really.

I'm a parent of young kids and would not be able to listen to a podcast.