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

This is interesting. Med people have been circulating care that seems to be helpful for covid patients and one thing that has come up is proning non-intubated patients improves oxygen levels. This makes sense now about why I prefer to always sleep on my stomach (asthma, I get wheezy at night).

I haven't been to our local Trader Joe's in weeks, but apparently they are having people line up outside, offering hand sanitizer and wiped down carts as people go in, and limiting shoppers inside to 15 at a time. On the plus side, apparently the store is fully stocked. Including hand sanitizer.

yeah they've been doing that here for a week. line up outside. grab a cart. one dude wipes the handle at the entrance, another dude squirts your hands.

I just found out that they appear to have closed down both the woods behind my place and the local park. Or at least there are signs up saying that they're closed.
So I'm stuck with the paradox that they seem to have closed down the one place in the area that people would go to to walk or exercise because people go there to walk and exercise. But I thought the directive from the Caretaker govt was that people were supposed to be able to exercise as long as they stayed within 2 km of where they lived. I thought it was pretty much encouraged.
So I'm wondering if this is actually true of everywhere in this country, if there is one place in an area that is amenable to exercise in so is the place that people go to going to be closed down because it is the place that people go to.So where are people supposed to go to?

& it's also a pl;ace taht I have to go across to go to the shop I get my shopping from. So it's probably true for a lot of people. So to what extent can it actually be closed, Particularly since its an open air area. Are they going to rope it off as a nogo area or something in a while?

the paradox that they seem to have closed down the one place in the area that people would go to walk or exercise because people go there to walk and exercise.

there's a lot of this going around. the authorities talk a lot about people staying mentally upbeat and healthy through taking walks, etc., but they only seem to be happy when everyone stays hunkered down inside their homes. hence, the dissonance.

Snipers, I think.

sorry Andrew - it seemed like you were saying that people sauntering around and “touching infected surfaces” wasn’t an issue

I've been going for runs in parking garages near my place because they're shaded, and empty of both cars and people. Also no cars for a week means they don't have foul air in them anymore.

Problem is that people seem unable to use restraint. First sunny day here, people flocked to all our local parks and conservation areas and parks to the point that they were more crowded than the busiest day of a summer long weekend. Cars lined up along the roads, people walking in groups, picnicking. They had no choice but to close the parks the next day.

Now people are being creative and doing stuff like circling their vehicles in empty parking lots so they can socialize from sitting in the back with the hatch up, which is a great solution, but I’m just waiting until so many people decide they need to do it every single day, in every lot in town til it’s too much, and then it won’t be allowed. People gonna people I guess.

Parks, playgrounds, dog parks, running tracks, tennis courts all closed here.

We have walking/biking trails and community gardens that are not technically closed, but "closed to groups." We are encouraged to do our exercising and gardening alone.

None of this prevents one from taking a walk/run/bike along normal streets.

Just saw a commercial for restaurants--all restaurants--about how even though dining rooms are closed, kitchens are still open and you should try to order take-out.

I was thinking about how bizarre it would be to go back three months and try to make sense of that.

Played baseball with my kids in the local park yesterday and THREE different people stooped down to pick up the ball when it had rolled away from one of us, and threw it back. WHAT ARE YOU DOING.

living la vida loco

our neighbours had another house party last night, with people streaming in and out of the building all night, even though federal and state governments said to stop doing that like a week ago. WHAT. ARE. YOU. DOING.

Did you call the cops?

should we? i don’t know whether it’s technically illegal yet

Feels like the perfect time for Wayne Cohen and Co. to revisit The Parking Lot Experiments.

don't call the cops ffs

so glad I put the mask on to go down for the mail and only got King Asswipe's 'guidelines' postcard

I get bored/feel lonely so I go to sleep. immediately dream about all the friends and family I miss and get sadder.

I hate this shit.

I wonder when the Fox Theater in oakland is going to get around to cancelling the FKA Twigs show for April 9? It's been obvious for weeks that won't happen since it was only scheduled to align with Coachella.

are there any concerts happening in the Bay Area?? isn't it shelter in place?

My sister-in-law got an invitation to a neighbourhood garden party, the guy had put them through dozens of doors in his street. Someone called the police, who popped round and had a word. Presumably "arsenole"

Just letting you all know I've unsubscribed from coronavirus, so won't be getting it after all

and my cell phone went full black screen despite obviously being "on". an hour now and I can't fix it. no cause, just happened randomly in mid-use.

with no T Mobile stores open here to fix it.

awesome.

Is it an iPhone. That happens to me every now and again

https://support.apple.com/en-au/guide/iphone/iph8903c3ee6/ios

May be the same for Android if you can find the instructions.

No falta el p..... pic.twitter.com/tpX1Fu3crr

— Faustino Asprilla (@TinoasprillaH) March 29, 2020

From Colombia

fixed it after an hour. my angry Sicilian blood started boiling and I got close to flinging it against a wall but fixed it just in time. I hate these phones that you can't take the batteries out of anymore, the auto reboot combo wasn't working, and at one point, BAd Religion's No Control album came on randomly

Just so y'all know, I am not *bleaching* my fucking *vegetables*. And neither are 5 or 6 billion other people.

The Online Perfection Squad is insane.

my dad has shared an Andy Borowitz article to me
via email

I may not survive this

Just so y'all know, I am not *bleaching* my fucking *vegetables*. And neither are 5 or 6 billion other people.

The Online Perfection Squad is insane.

― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius)

Should you choose to do so, don't before bed.

idgi

You'll go blind, like the nuns used to say.

balls

yeah I wouldn't dilute water/bleach my vegetables either. but I am washing them super well if I plan to eat them raw. My mom has been yelling at me for years to do that anyway since she thinks all the vegetables in grocery stores are trash.

i do hope everyone finally stopped wearing their shoes in the house.

and not being a control freak/moron, i'm not doing it xxxxp

The arugula in a plastic container I bought last week says "washed 3x for your protection." I'll be a trusting soul.

oh yeah, stuff that is sealed and already washed is fine.

Shoes:

Well, I don't have a house, I have a 4th-floor apartment in Brooklyn. Every time I leave it, I spray a soapy solution on em, wipe, and leave em outside for maybe 40 minutes. Then I take em in and keep em near the door, because EVENTUALLY SOMEONE WILL TAKE MY ONLY PAIR OF WALKING SHOES.

many of these universal guidelines are useless for Gothamites

no i meant taking your shoes off when you enter you abode. I don't leave my shoes outside my apt. although we did have an apt one floor down that always left their shoes outside the door and it was super annoying because it was right at the top of the stairs. Someone finally stole a pair of their shoes and they put signs up everywhere about it but dude... seriously.

the dude seriously is for the guy that had nice shoes in a size 12, that was just begging for someone to take them.

and I'm just saying that people that wear shoes in their homes have always been weird to me. outside has always been gross.

oh yeah, I have a pair of holey falling-apart slippers that I wear in the apartment. Shoulda bought that $20 pair I saw and put back in January, but didn't expect a quarantine.

i just wear socks (or barefoot). We didn't even do houseslippers growing up. bad asian.

my dad finally got a walker. he's mad. i'm happy

fucker kept falling and insisting his cane was fine and he never used it correctly

I'm about to start War and Peace!

― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 28 March 2020 18:05 (yesterday)

I *loved* that yarn. And Natasha has to be one of the most vivid characters in all of literature.

A lot of math challenged friends are spreading the false rumor that the stimulus check this year will be offset next year, meaning your tax refund will be decreased 1200 next year.

Guess they don't understand the concept of double dipping or know how a one-time refundable tax credit works. Had to explain that them not giving you the 1200 next year doesn't mean your tax liability is now 1200 dollars higher than it would have been if there was no stimulus.

They're just taking away the bonus 1200 credit because it's money they gave you a year early.

I feel like how I do when explaining why after-tax 401k loan repayments aren't double taxation.

and I'm just saying that people that wear shoes in their homes have always been weird to me. outside has always been gross.