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

my buddy who passed out in the ER is now doing light housework and getting caught up on work. On the plus side when you're on the other side of this plus quarantine, you guys win the get out of jail free card of presumptive immunity!

just realised i never commented on neanderthal’s ‘hooked on a feeling’: it was grate and it made me smile, thanks dude

:). anytime

best wishes, TH!

thanks. it was worth getting coronavirus just to get a post out of Lavator Shemmelpennick tbh

Haven't read all the above but ... I don't know anything much about Jenny Harries, deputy chief medical officer [in the UK] but it bothers me that it is her picture that appears at the Guardian (online) alongside the suggestion that the pressure is growing to provide PPE after doctors have died.

I went out for the first time in 10 days yesterday after shaking my probably not corona cough. Masked up* and wore gloves to go to the Chinese super market. My neighbourhood is very Vietnamese/Cantonese and it was noticeable that my Asian background neighbors are very good at keeping to one side of the path, waiting for you to come out of the grocery aisle before you go in, wearing masks and gloves, (Chinese market has both for sale); my european background neighbours, not so much.

*My wife has been sewing masks, hopefully they catch some of what I’m breathing out but definitely help with the not touching your face thing.

hi neighbor Lavator, where may I ask in the Valley r u?

rustu recber

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY3cox1-AsM&t=0s

My boyfriend's brother just called. He definitely has it (cough, fever, fatigue, loss of taste, can't sleep) and is still out working on someone's house in Fire Island. But he's an absolutely trash human so that tracks.

that won't end well.

Phew.

Get well soon, Tracer. Any idea how you caught it?

“My boyfriend's brother just called. He definitely has it (cough, fever, fatigue, loss of taste, can't sleep) and is still out working on someone's house in Fire Island. But he's an absolutely trash human so that tracks.”

Ugh. I grew up there. There’s no hospital there and there are people that live there year round. I heard from a friend that several city households had come out trying to get away but its a potential recipe for disaster. :(

tracer i started a game of civ 2 earlier this week, and after short stints as king and consul u r now my presidetn. be well!

https://i.imgur.com/g8cOJ1J.jpg

(i think i had just been reading the 'best-ever mixes' thread)

Best wishes Tracer <3

Just realising after reading mention of psychological toll on the outbreak thread.
The main local river is really high as I walk by it over last couple of weeks. There had been a pretty recent directive to watch that people weren't jumping in, I think set up towards the end of last year. Used to be that any time I walked by there was someone around in a high viz jacket or waistcoat who was part of this program. It's called Corris watch. Suicide prevention. Maybe I have the time wrong and they were only doing it at night which I'm not sure made perfect sense.
Would think that it was something that had numbers of potential jumpers going up in current situation rather than down. So shame it isn't a 24 hour service now but it does involve potential Covid catchers which may be why it isn't.
Like in the absence of quasi intelligent androids it involved somebody being present at site who would need to be exposed to the public. Haven't heard what the results so far are but since it was a recognised problem before this pandemic I can assume it will have only gotten worse in such a potentially depressing isolating time.

Corrib watch.
Dang autocorrect

Oh yeah was checking outbreak list after hearing about Sweden's response on the news yesterday. Is that actually working?

apparently they're not doing much testing

and they've banned gatherings of more than 50 people as of Friday (down from 500)

That sounds real progressive.
I thought Goodbye Sweden when i heard it.

Just before our work got closed down the Swedish woman I work with was trying to organize flights for her and her children to go to Sweden - she's from somewhere way in the North, miles away from anywhere, has lots of anecdotes about moose and freezing weather. What about your husband (he's English), I said - Oh, he'll be alright here, she said.

hahaha mookie that’s amazing. bucket list items i never knew i had??

Alba no idea. it could have been anything. last day kids were in school was about 10 days ago, i got symptoms on Saturday, so it definitely could have been that. but it also could have been a door handle or a crosswalk button or ...

washing machine looks like it might have packed in. ppl will not come in the house fit a new one "due to govt regulations"

alls you need to do reconnect the water supply and stick the waste on (there is usually a jubilee clip on it) and the water pipe usually just screws on and off. You don't need a bloody plumber for that mate!

says me who once forgot to take the transit bolts out of a new washing machine and nearly trashed the thing on its first go!

Tracer, get well soon!!!

Ogmor that's annoying - you need a washing machine! Surely you can keep 2 meters away if they come?
Our new dishwasher stopped working after one week. Bloke came to look at it before the official lockdown and it needs a new door sensor thing. Now it's the lockdown I assume there's no chance of getting it. Hope the company doesn't go bust or we've just lost several hundred quid :(

Can you MacGyver the door sensor with a paper clip or something?

My single-cup Keurig (the only coffee-making machine in our home, with which I use a refillable plastic k-cup) stopped working properly yesterday and I had a brief bout of panic until I googled my way through what is hopefully a proper fix. But goddamn, all these fragile little things that are serving as a bulwark against madness atm. They're too damn fragile!

Building work still going on next door to me, in fact it sounds like they're trying to drill through the wall to where I'm sitting.

They were playing some kind of bhangra, or something, earlier at about 2 million decibels until my downstairs neighbour complained about it.

washing machine looks like it might have packed in. ppl will not come in the house fit a new one "due to govt regulations"

Surely the techniques of old are still tolerated:

https://images.fineartamerica.com/images/artworkimages/mediumlarge/1/2-washerwomen-paul-gauguin.jpg

The past two days of waking up with massive congestion and a sinus headache have not been fun, mostly because I believe this is a result of undiagnosed allergies which I now will have problems getting diagnosed because life is now isolationist hell. (I believe this because this congestion has been off and on since early November and I have no other symptoms.)

the drain in my shower is clogged, and you'd think being trapped at home would be the perfect opportunity to fix it, but that relies on the assumption that one has any motivation left over after it barely covers work

I feel that, katherine. My overhead light in my kitchen stopped working last week and it's probably related to my own poor wiring decisions, but it mysteriously started working again when I accidentally slammed a cabinet door so I'm calling it Good For Now (tm)

For NY Residents:

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I'm struggling with the sheer arbitrariness of this all - we've been at home for two and a half weeks now so I think we're OK as long we keep up sensible social distancing, but there's sense that if we'd been to a different restaurant three weeks ago, or sat in a different seat on the train, or a different meeting room at work, then one of us could be in hospital on a ventilator right now. Obviously that's the case for everyone but it doesn't make it feel any less indiscriminate or unfair.

Well put. My wife and I 'survived' our compulsory 14 days of self-isolation but every time one of us steps out to do the groceries I subconsciously reset the clock.

Work from homers: "I think a jogger might have come within 6ft of me today"

Not work from homers: "OK"
pic.twitter.com/5ZWc9NW7IV

— Nick Dastoor (@NickyD) March 30, 2020

I think that's one of the most difficult things for people to handle. There are so many risky behaviors that people regularly do that have a low possibility of harm, and we take it for granted when bad things don't happen. And when they do happen, some will shrug it off and come up with a reason related to luck or morality as to why it happened to someone else and not them.

If I contract covid-19 and the worst happens, people could shrug and say, hey, he wasn't as active as he could have been, drank too much, guess that's what happens. But the fact is that a bunch of my peers are less physically active and have the same bad habits! It's only when there's a high incidence across the entire population that we realize how arbitrary things really are.

Most of the things that happen have some level of arbitrariness to them, it's just that the reasons are at different levels of opacity or we pretend they aren't opaque.

lol calz, touché.

wasn't intended as a swipe, pom. I'm pulling up my hood and looking the opposite way if someone gets within 12 ft of me!

I'm struggling with the sheer arbitrariness of this all - we've been at home for two and a half weeks now so I think we're OK as long we keep up sensible social distancing, but there's sense that if we'd been to a different restaurant three weeks ago, or sat in a different seat on the train, or a different meeting room at work, then one of us could be in hospital on a ventilator right now. Obviously that's the case for everyone but it doesn't make it feel any less indiscriminate or unfair.

― Matt DC, Monday, March 30, 2020 9:54 AM (eleven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Seriously. I look back a little over two weeks to the day when, if my workplace hadn't granted me WFH permission, I was planning to take extended PTO until they came to their senses. The number of covid cases in the state were in the low double digits at that point (32, I believe?), but someone just down the block from my work had already tested positive and I came to learn later that someone who was working in my office up to the day in question had tested positive. We're likely to exceed 5,000 cases in the state today, and I get a little queasy thinking about what might've happened if I hadn't been as firm with my workplace and had kept commuting in to work for several more days until they formally closed the office.

so what are people doing about haircuts?

I've been cutting/clipping my own hair for many years, had no idea I was prepping for this

i have one scheduled a few weeks from now and i will not be getting it but i'm going to pay my hairdresser in advance for the next one so she can still make money. i'm a girl though.

Didn't have you pegged as a hardcore survivalist, Simon.