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

(xpost) I was somewhat annoyed by the postal clerk today who made me get out my wallet and show ID to pick up a package. Under normal circumstances, they sometimes ask and sometimes don't--you've already got the delivery notice out of your PO Box, so unless you physically terrorized someone else into handing over their notice for a package the contents of which are unknown to you, the notice is yours. For a $20 CD, you need ID in the middle of a pandemic?

I know anyone still out there working is going through a lot, so I didn't say anything.

I ordered beer with a restaurant delivery last week, dude dropped everything at the door and took off before I could even come down with ID. Works for me.

scored some tp

in a weird turn of events i have started (remotely) dating someone in the last two weeks and it's going ludicrously well, which is wonderful, a reason to look forward to the future and all that, but also EXCRUCIATING

amazing to have any sort of dating success via the awkward-by-default medium of video chat

Uh, wha?

idk i guess this isn't an irrational fear but it's an irrational experience

I have been predicting for a while that this would be overall bad for marriages and overall good for online/remote dating so glad to see at least the good part of that is maybe anecdotally panning out

Congrats Brad!

this would be overall bad for marriages

Why, pray tell?

I believe it can, in some cases, be bad for marriages (too much forced time together?) but I refuse to believe in any kind of golden era for video dating

xp - close confinement exacerbating frictions, I expect

So spending time apart is overall better than not for married couples? Sounds vaguely ideological.

Bit of a stretch there Pom :)

Why, pray tell?

ime when you live with someone you need a balance of time together and apart for optimal results

Sorry, I'll take it to the uncool conservative beliefs thread.

i would think internet dating now has a lot less pressure/more fun. Like how those pandas just smashed after 10 years of not smashing.

exactly like that

ime when you live with someone you need a balance of time together and apart for optimal results

It depends on the state of your relationship overall. If there are large external factors keeping the marriage together (mortgage, kid/kids, etc.) then sure, you might need a break. But if you're two people with no larger obligations in/to the world, who are just married because you enjoy each other's company, then this situation can represent either no change or a change for the better.

relatedly

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/06/world/coronavirus-domestic-violence.html

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Went for a modest run, and boy, am I already starting to see masks and gloves littered all over the place.

kudos to the old dude in the supermarket this morning who LICKED HIS FINGERS to pick up a pack of toilet paper

Well, you don't want the packs to stick together now, do you

Went for a modest run, and boy, am I already starting to see masks and gloves littered all over the place.

Went on my sixth delivery run today and my lord the # of gloves and masks littering public transit is abhorrent.

people are fucking pigs

It depends on the state of your relationship overall

unperson otm

Watdching a live stream of my dad's send off and seeing taht people in Kenya either don't get social distancing or haven't had it introduced asa restriction. They had a curfew a couple of weeks ago in Nairobi at least.
Depressing to think that in a group so9 large at least one p[erson has presumably got it and may have spread it further.

Not sure what I was expecting, Dad's wife and their children? I guess he came from a reasonably large family so what counts as immediate family covers a lot of people.
I was expoecting an interment and a later memorial service once the virus was gone.
Now feeling powerless to see a potential disaster. Hope against hope it doesn't spread any further among these people.

Thought it odd taht commercial internal flights were still happening for the family to get half way across the country.
Dad was 81, i think his wife must be something similar. & so must Dad's siblings. and other peers.

I went shopping on Saturday and found the car park had a load of gloves floating around it. Also the pavement on the walk up there had a number of gloves lying there.
Great way to contain the spread.

Also noticing there's a load of people walking around in teh same pair of gloves for ages.So are probably thinking that's an end in itself not just that any virus contact will be spread elsewhere by the gloves. Don't like wasting so much plastic on changing pairs between every shop but think it is probably a lot safer.

sorry you've lost you dad stevolende

MY dad's ceremony has a lot of people walking around in surgical masks and now has a priest talking about Corona but it would just appear a bit wasted if people aren't keeping distance and arehugging and shaking hands freely. Or queuing up to pay tribute to the open casket or whatever.
Don't want to be thinking about that at a time like this. But would have thought the safety measures would need to be pretty universal

Dad died of an existing condition at a time taht the virus is heavily around. I was thinking it was probably better that it was immediate than him lingering in restricted conditions.
& that the funeral wasn't going to b etaht since I thought there was a larger event penciled in for later this year for precisely that reason.
So really do not want to think of people having attended this taking the virus with them to allparts of Kenya and elsewhere.
THought they were too intelligent to be doing something like taht.

Stevo I'm so sorry.

I've now been told that in Kenya the Coronavirus has been concentrated in Nairobi , the capital city and Mombasa one of the big ports.
So anybody in the area near the banks of Lake Victoria should be safe to congregate. Is that mindlessly naive, a problem that happened in the West already or is it likely to be remotely true?
& if people from both of the infected areas have flown in to attend a funeral is it still true then?

so sorry for your loss Stevo

sorry to hear that stevo

well hoping i don't lose any more of my family after this.

Thanks

oh man stevolende so sorry to hear this, sending you best wishes

very sorry for your loss, stevolende

Condolences.

I'm now seeing that Europe is supposed to be preparing to reduce the lockdown status over the next few weeks.
Think somebody is returning school to function after Easter, like the 14th.
Is that premature?

Not sure where you've seen "Europe preparing to reduce the lockdown", measures are still very much in the extension stage, and differ per country.

Austria is the first - and so far only - country preparing to lift lockdown measures starting the 14th. I've not heard of others following suit.

‘Europe’

Well, yeah.

Just lazily and crankily agreeing with you.

Always appreciated!

OT: is everyone on slack now? Getting quieter and quieter here.

i have not been granted the keys to slack, so no

Good man.

Slack ain’t that busy either. I think people are resting or maybe even working

Don’t worry both places will be jumping when Johnson spaffs off to the great wall in the sky