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

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.

first day back in work after holiday today. p pointless as only around half a dozen flights and the first of them not due to depart until after my shift anyway. apparently we are open tomorrow then perhaps a day or two of mothballing the shops and then being 80 percented for at least a couple of months. more staff than customers in the shop today which was weird. think Boots is the last store standing in departures and the staff there none too happy about it.

welp. 38.3C fever and a cough. Body feels extremely weird, a combo of super tired and totally buzzed. splitting headaches that go as quickly as they arrived.

oh shit

hope this is at least manageable for you tracer

Good luck, man!

Good luck, dude.

thanks. wife has fever as well though not as high. kids fine obviously. strange that after having read approx 500000000 articles about this i now can’t remember the exact instrux for those with symptoms. stay home for 14 days iirc. but... how are we to get food? and.... I’ve read things saying that you’re contagious for three weeks after you stop displaying symptoms so shouldn’t i really be waiting till then?

prefer not to dwell on the potential seriousness of this obv. there is a very low chance it gets significantly worse.

is there a hotline you can call? since your health system is better than ours, there’s got to be someone who can clarify things for you fairly quickly

Get on facebook etc and find your community groups. This is when you'll need to ask friends for help bringing groceries etc. How's your freezer/tinned food stocks etc?

If you've been near anyone in the last week or so it's probably fair to let them know you've got symptoms if you can.
Good luck and I hope it's just something mild!

I know deliveries are probably backed up for weeks but if you can get a food delivery for a week or so you’ll probably appreciate it. Simple nutritious food you can eat a little of.

Teach the kids to make soup.

we’ve done nothing outside for the last week or so apart from go to the park and get groceries so nobody really to notify.

we’re extremely well stocked thank god. it’s just certain things like fresh fruit & veggies and milk that I’ll need to figure out. yeah all the delivery services are fucked.

weird shit!

Anybody in the "bring me soup mfers" thread that's close to you?

Sorry to hear that Tracer, hope it passes soon. Second koogs, but also, have you any corner shops near you? I hear some of them have been delivering to people who can’t go out.

Good luck Tracer!

will find out gyac, good idea

all the best to you & family, Tracer! good luck, hope it passes quickly and with a minimum of disruption

thank you :)

another symptom is that my sense of taste is completely fucked. things taste bitter. my toast this morning tasted awful.

ticking off symptoms like a champ here th

gluck

jeez man

Whereabouts are you again, Tracer?

Stratford

Arggh tracer! :(

take it easy tracer, get well soon

All the best to you and the family Tracer

Tracer, my exercise for the day was going to be cycling round the borders of Hackney - if you want to send me a shopping list and an address I could get some stuff in for you? Also can I take a minute to talk with you about the good news that is oatmilk? NB I would not actually be talking with you, if you can see my mouth making shapes then something will have gone wrong with the whole plan.

attn tracer re links for local groups: "bring me soup mfers" (thread of urgent coronavirus quarantine requests shd need arise: london local)

also omg look after yrself and be well birthday-twin

Wishing you and yours (and your taste buds) a swift recovery tracer!

All the best, Trace!

thanks all. it turns out we have a local bud with an CAR who is going to make runs for us.

nhs website says we can actually leave the house for exercise purposes! not that i feel like it at all lol

Get as much squash and lemonade etc in case you get the throat of doom

Hope you make a swift recovery TH.

For any ilxors in or around Peckham/Camberwell, a local company (Smith & Brock) who usually supply restaurant fruit and veg are doing home deliveries now with about a week's lead time and are really good, and not nearly as expensive as Natoora.

Also just ordered a slab of salt beef from Monty's Deli which is arriving on Tuesday.

neighbour in my block emailed earlier to include me in their shop, i think i have become designated OAP in the building (as the oldest resident i have earned this of course): anyway i asked from a small bunch of useful stuff and they delivered complete with careful distancing in the stairwell :)

tbf we have always got on v well and chat a lot in normaltiems™ but this was unexpected and kind

by contrast after the huge political-mentalist blow-up yesterday the local mutual aid whatsapp has been entirely silent today

london ppl shd put maybe website addresses of places that deliver in the "give me soup mfers" thread?

it is being slept on imo

Cool and good luck TH!

I've been watching "Oxford mutual aid" on twitter/FB asking for volunteers, and thinking of some people I should really have offered help to and haven't (yet), and I know I should step up, but I'm scared of offering to step up and then not being able to, or of making things worse

e.g. if I offer to get things to people but the shops don't have them (local shops have fuck all atm), or I can't get to them safely after all (I don't drive or cycle - the other half does, but rather not drag him repeatedly into my ill-thought-out promises), or if I turn out to have it and manage to infect someone vulnerable, etc

I dunno why I'm posting this, to hear how people get past that fear? or just to be made to feel OK about my laziness and inaction?

(tbh I've been incompetent and clumsy and careless at everything I've ever done, and even though mutual aid is a good and noble concept this may not be a time for chronic bungling fuck-ups to wade in)

Oh man Tracer, will be thinking of you and family. Hang in there.

<3<3 TH

Sorry, Tracer. Beaming you some support here too.

So 38.3 is ... like 100? Keep an eye on it, obviously, but covid temps seem to be running a tad higher, like 103 (or closer to 40?). How do you feel otherwise? Good luck regardless.

put that virus in a headlock my good man