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

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

You don't need keys, just a slack account, the URL has been posted on various threads.

Of course, understand not wanting to divert people away from here, but also appreciating the decidedly lower stakes chatter.

I'm cool w/ slack. Just not that cool w/ having no time for it myself because of work.

Still in office four days a week (albeit a locked down one), still have a daily commute (it's nice to go out every day by car tbf). Am I missing out on the ~real lockdown experience~ or am I lucky to be able to get away? Undecided.

I'm cool w/ slack. Just not that cool w/ having no time for it myself because of work.

Same here, except it's more like 'having no time for work because of it'.

I hear you. I desperately need to avoid that scenario though so I'm steering clear. Which is not, with everyone having cool avatars and all!

not easy, that is

I'm cool w/ slack. Just not that cool w/ having no time for it myself because of work.

same. i have been checking in a bit on evenings and weekends, though

I'm sorry to hear about your father, Stevolende. It's a hard thing to handle under normal circumstances, I can't even imagine the difficulty of going through that now. Be well.

stevolende, i'm sorry. :(

My condolences, Stevo, and I sincerely apologize for the snark, re: Europe. I hadn't read your previous posts yet.

Major changes at our independent grocer today (nothing the rest of the world isn't already doing): caution tape outside designating a pathway to the door, someone at the door to get your cart and give instructions (she was also monitoring how many people were inside), no personal gloves allowed. They've removed a couple of aisle displays, too, and moved the stuff to shelves. Not sure what triggered this today specifically, but I'm fine with all of it.

can i just say how (though completely necessary) COMPLETELY FUCKED this all is?? it’s..... it’s crazy!

and how there appears to be no endgame? what is the next step? Who knows??

my dear monsieur, perhaps you have already observed that in coronavirus, human life is cheap

Coooooool. Just found out that someone smashed the front door of our building in the middle of the night last night and (thankfully only) stole all of the packages out of our lobby. So nice to see that these trying times aren't keeping the scumfucks from fully embracing their scumfuckery.

there's totally an endgame and it's the vaccine, the how long it takes to get there and what happens before we get there are the cool things we have no knowledge about

Coooooool. Just found out that someone smashed the front door of our building in the middle of the night last night and (thankfully only) stole all of the packages out of our lobby. So nice to see that these trying times aren't keeping the scumfucks from fully embracing their scumfuckery.

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my friends had their mail stolen last week, mail thieves on are a tear

Remember how you used to go away on vacation and, like it was a whole thing that you had to make your house look occupied?

Lights on timers. Mail and papers stopped. Etc.

So, it follows from that that there was a whole sector of crime devoted to breaking into unoccupied houses and taking their stuff (presumably Precious Moments figurines and doilies and costume jewelry from Claire's Boutique).

And it follows from THAT that there is a whole class of criminal that is now out of options because everybody's home all the time. I guess they could go break into offices and steal, like, coffee and toner.

Or, I guess, they could steal mail.

pathetic! there are like a million cool heists you could be doing right now

we're being encouraged to wear masks in public ffs

People who decamped to their second house in the Hamptons can still be robbed

There was a pharmacy robbery near me recently where a guy broke in through the roof and stole 3,000 oxys. I'm not saying that stealing oxys is "cool", but it did cross my mind that burglars could take advantage of all these closed businesses for some pretty impressive heists.

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I get that there probably not a lot of brain geniuses making a living from petty theft but stealing mail is just profoundly stupid. Congrats, I hope those random articles of clothing and diapers and whatever else were worth the federal crime you just committed, friend!

Iirc a lot of thieves just sell the stuff online, either directly or through someone else.

In good news, my wife's company implemented work from home pretty early, and out of I think well over 3000 employees has had only one report of someone testing positive.