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

yerac you could shave your head and buy a selection of reasonably priced hottt wigs

i couldn't deal with having a fucked up haircut. i'm just going to have to ride this out.

It's only sex with a monk if you go for a tonsure IMO

I'm shaving it this weekend. Like America, it will grow back stronger than ever!!!

I haven’t cut my hair in a few years what’s one more.

i couldn't deal with having a fucked up haircut. i'm just going to have to ride this out.

That's where I am. I've buzzed my hair before and it looked absolutely awful. I do not have the head shape for that. Shaggy is def preferable to what that would look like.

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xps I already have the wigs! I am prepared for anything.

If I had clippers I’d be up for trying to refresh my undercut

thank you ru paul's drag race.

99 times out of 100, i think women look great with buzzcuts
i would generally buzz my own head during the summer and might speed that up a bit if the weather gets prohibitively hot particularly fast.

i am suddenly remembering Todd Oldham from MTv's House of Style doing a how to cut your own hair segment.

I have had a beard for 10 years. When I bought my current trimmer several years ago it came with a dozen or so little plastic guides of various sizes. I just wanted to trim my beard and there were so many of them and they kept getting in the way in the box, so I threw out all of the guides except the first two sizes I needed. Boy do I feel dumb now.

I'm currently deciding between clipping my hair down (maybe leaving it a little longer on top) and growing it out. I had hair down to my shoulders when I graduated high school in 1990, but shaved it off later that summer. I remember it took 12-18 months to grow, starting from a regular short haircut.

My husband, who started going bald in his late teens and has been shaving it to a number 1 or 2 ever since, has been enjoying feeling v smug during this quarantine.

Feel like somebody earlier in the thread noticed that spam calls had dropped, that still the case? Experiencing the exact opposite here in the last week or so, suddenly cranked up to 10-15 calls per day (doubly annoying since I also have a work cell phone too).

Feel like somebody earlier in the thread noticed that spam calls had dropped, that still the case?

That was me. For a while they stopped completely, but I've gotten a few in the last week or so - no more than 1 or 2 a week, though.

Yesterday I got a spam text from the Trump campaign directing me to some shitass website about Joe Biden's alleged crimes (not sex crimes, all China bullshit) - I replied with 100 middle finger emojis.

haven't noticed a difference either way

Caring for my dad in a cramped apartment while I am single and unable to go on dates and have no room of my own makes me miss being able to wank

when there's a will there's a way

might just take a little sleight of hand

Just came from a harrowing trip to my dentist, seeing patients again for the first time since March. She's ruthlessly hygienic in normal times; today she ordered me to wear plastic eye guards and took my temperature. I waited in my car before the receptionist called and escorted me in. I wore my mask and gloves, the former, of course, not while she poked around -- I felt nude.

plastic eye guards hmm. what they is, google

like a visor but over the eyes thing?

Yeah, very 1986.

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i didn't say I didn't fap. i just had to...uhh...get creative

Dentist: I think I'd be keen not to risk death to sort out other people's tooth pain.

Haircuts: You know to do this yourself *now* rather than wait until the end of working from home, yeah? I know video conferencing ruins this slightly but still ...

Went to the grocery earlier on. For the past month or so, it's been 100% facemasks there, but sometime in the past week I guess a lot of people said fuck it because a good quarter or more of the people there had no masks, were mostly in groups, and acting like they didn't give a fuck about their or anyone else's safety. Not a good development at all.

so the store doesn't prohibit this?

I asked the lady that coordinates the check out lines if they no longer require masks, and she said they still do, but I guess they aren't doing much to stop it. I think as long as the state isn't requiring it, stores feel disempowered to really stop people.

after a grocery worker was shot to death by a customer for trying to enforce mask-wearing in the store I wouldn't be surprised if some stores reconsidered mandatory masks for customers.

Indeed

It's weird living in DeSatan's Florida yet in a county where you're not allowed to enter any enclosed public space w/out'em.

I thought that's what it was like here! It's frustrating because our case numbers have never really gotten out of control, but have just plateaued for weeks without managing to drop significantly. It feels like we were close, but now we're just throwing it away.

My university is trying to reassure employees that if we return to campus in the fall there will be strict policies about wearing masks and following social distancing rules. But all that does is fill us with dread, because we all know what happens when strict policies are put in place that depend on faculty and staff to enforce them... the policies are ignored and the employees get blamed for the failure. It's the same in grocery stores.

Am I correct in thinking you also live in Austin?

you are!

My husband finally broke and got out the clippers, buzzed his shaggy head right down. Now he wanders the house, listening to work calls in his big beats headphones, mostly silent and staring straight ahead, and I wonder why I’m suddenly living with Lobot.

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So are you having the same experience that people are giving up on safety precautions pretty quickly?

Living with Lobot coming to Disney+ this August

So are you having the same experience that people are giving up on safety precautions pretty quickly?

I go for runs every other day, and while in March the streets were almost completely empty, now you're guaranteed to pass by dozens of people, and there are lots of groups roving around. I used to go through Eastwoods Park and use the track at Caven Field on campus, but they're both way too crowded now so I avoid them entirely. Aside from that I've only been to the grocery store a couple times.

My social circle is starting to socialize in person again, like invite 1-2 people over to hang out in the backyard and drink. I haven't done it yet, but I want to... and to be fair, I understand both the loneliness overwhelming people, and also the frustration that comes from spending two months suffering alone and then realizing the government - both Texas and Federal - spent that two months fucking around and frittered away all that effort to buy us some time to take action. I'm going to keep quarantine, but I can see why people are seeing politicians (read: Republicans) dick around on TV every day and being like "well, fuck it, this is a lost cause so I'm going out to a bar".

can't get used to having to shop in chunks (twice a week in my case).

so there's nothing for tea, but, simultaneously, i have too much lettuce and milk because they had short dates on them when i bought them. and i hate throwing food out.

i've stopped jogging exactly because it was hard to avoid breathing heavily on people (there are a lot of 'amateurs' around at the moment, people who are struggling and who will just stop suddenly). there are unpopular routes besides busy main roads but...

and part of me thinks i'm never going to bother getting my hair cut professionally again

(the part of me that can't see what a hack-job i've done at the back)

probably not an option in London, but my quarantine running secret is parking garages... they're 100% empty and also shaded.

I haven't been to the grocery store lately, but my wife reported after her last trip that even here in a relatively liberal outpost the mask use has dropped dramatically.

Was talking to a friend on Zoom last night and he said the same thing. He asked a guy at one of the local grocery stores if they were still enforcing the mandatory mask rule and he essentially said that they try to, but the non mask wears get so angry and belligerent that they don't feel safe confronting them. I get it, it's gotta be hard enough with just the stress of being an essential worker right now to not want to be screamed at by a red-faced MAGA idiot on top of it all.

I don't want to jump to conclusions about the non-mask wearing customers, but I definitely detected a sense of aggressive defiance, could possibly be that I'm projecting my own anger onto them.

I was assuming that people might have a bit of expoerience of self hair cutting by the time the lockdown was through and might actually be getting to a point of some ability. & people wouldn't have to be seen in public with the initial rough stages. Or at least there would be somebody in any shared house that might be getting a little skill which they might want a bit of guidance/tuition on when they got the chance.
Also heard the hat was becoming popular in places it hadn't been as much before.

Not only are you going to have a load of people endangering their health by things reopening so early but they'll have to live down bad haircuts. Or is that why they're opening all the hair salons.

You learn real fast working retail to never ask customers to do anything. Even before COVID-19 and MAGA chuds, it was a terrible strategy for getting through the working day. They will always argue, always escalate, and management will never back you up.

the idiotic, ignorant angry non-mask wearing dumbfuck customer is always right!