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

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

btw, that David Geffen boat thing? It's a huge fucking boat, so he's got to have a big crew, which means there's still a really good chance he has a luxury yacht outbreak, isn't there?

Take it easy, Tracer Hand (and Mme Main).

Echoing what all have said there — best to you both!

get well soon, TH!

Good luck, TH!

good luck Tracer!

Aww, best of all possible wishes to Tracer

sending best wishes to everyone in the TH household.

Question for anyone that knows the answer. My wife has been nagging me to donate blood, which means she's been reading stuff or hearing from people encouraging blood donation. Now, I don't have a problem donating blood, but of course I don't like it, and would prefer not to if it's just a general call for blood. Is there a particular blood shortage now, or is the concern only that fewer people are donating because of covid/isolation and they're worried they'll at some point run low?

some types are always low so that's the start of the answer

well, mine is not rare.

well done

Good luck, TH! Lots of fluids! I think respiratory therapists have been putting some good advice online to follow at home if you start to have slight difficulty breathing.

Stay strong tracer

Josh here I was hearing that blood donations are generally down because mobile drives near workplaces are cancelled and people haven’t been going out.

Good luck Tracer and family.

team tracer! hope you feel better soon.

Sending love and wishes for good health to you, dear Tracer.

Thanks everyone.

JiC, 38.3C is 101F - that was last night. it is really wild how much it fluctuates. This morning I practically had nothing and during the day it’s been zizagging up.