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

I am extremely paranoid about spreading it around, I don't wanna get in a cab :(

Get a cab that is an SUX or minivan and cling to the roof.

Rental car? Zipcar? Scooter? Bikeshare?

*SUV

prediction: as mask wearing becomes more or less compulsory, people will start wearing more permanent mask structures.

this is how the portal to mortal kombat opens up.

Showing my age here but I'm hoping this is how we get to live Jack Vance's "The Moon Moth".

zchyrs, you decide what's best for you, but i haven't heard anything significant about mild exertion worsening the illness itself, especially if you have no problem walking that distance and no obvious difficulties breathing. i had a similar practical problem when i was sick, not wanting to expose any friends or public transit but not having a way to get to a doctor. i could well have walked there, since i walked home from it, 2-3 miles. it was no problem. i also had a test more recently that i walked about a mile to get to.

Showing my age here but I'm hoping this is how we get to live Jack Vance's "The Moon Moth".

if you've barely felt sick, a mile walk (and a mile back) ought to be fine. & er i guess if not you'll know it pretty quick lol

I have been in one of two hospitals since 5/8

keeps one away from COVID

Just in. United Airlines says that starting Thursday, passengers that do not wear a mask in flight will be banned—at least temporarily—from flying on the carrier, pending a “comprehensive incident review."

— Pete Muntean (@petemuntean) June 15, 2020

Everything I've ordered sent via USPS is taking at least 4-5 weeks to get here, is this still true everywhere?

i ordered something via usps from cali to tx and it took 4 days once shipped

Yeah, I haven't been experiencing delays like that at all. That said, I'm currently waiting for a package that's coming via DHL - I got the shipment confirmation email on 6/11 and it's not expected to reach me (IL -> NJ) until 6/20, which seems absurd.

I'm waiting on two things, one from New York (Woodsist) and one from Arizona. On week four for the former and week five for the latter. In both cases, I was given a specific delivery date, but then that disappeared and both are just "in transit".

JACKSONVILLE BEACH, Fla. – Erika Crisp has been short of breath for several days and has tested positive for COVID-19.

So have more than a dozen of her friends.

The one thing they all had in common: a night out at Lynch's Irish Pub on June 6 in Jacksonville Beach.

Crisp, a 40-year-old health care worker from Jacksonville, said she’s been sick for eight days, and 15 of her friends have also tested positive for COVID-19.

Lynch’s learned some of its customers had tested positive for coronavirus after visiting the pub and the general manager opted to shut down voluntarily over the weekend for a deep cleaning.

Crisp said she and her friends had been careful with social distancing and had stayed indoors for months “doing everything the right way.”

“And then the first night we go out, Murphy’s Law, I guess,” Crisp said. “The only thing we have in common is that one night at that one bar.”

Crisp said she regrets going out to celebrate after months of quarantining.

“I think we were careless and we went out into a public place when we should not have. And we were not wearing masks. I think we had a whole 'Out of sight, out of mind' mentality. The state opens back up and said everybody was fine, so we took advantage of that,” Crisp said.

She said it's a lesson for everyone.

“We should be wearing masks. We should be social distancing,” Crisp said. “It was too soon to open everything back up.”

Lynch’s general manager said the pub will reopen at 11 a.m. Tuesday.

Hell of a kicker on that one.

i seem to have had trouble recently with ups deliveries—more than one thing that's made it to town but then been held up by unaccounted 'out for delivery' adventures and blown 8 pm delivery assurances, for like 5 business days at a time. on some of them i got 'emergency or natural disaster' explanations on the tracker. i've been led to believe by the internet that their trucks don't go through areas where there's protesting, so their scheduling has been all thrown off—they've been warehousing trucks overnight in facilities and i guess making up the slack as best they can.

“I think we were careless and we went out into a public place when we should not have. And we were not wearing masks. I think we had a whole 'Out of sight, out of mind' mentality. The state opens back up and said everybody was fine, so we took advantage of that,” Crisp said.

SHE'S A HEALTH CARE WORKER FOR FUCK'S SAKE WHAT IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE'S BRAINS

Well...Florida.

and Jacksonville

is Jacksonville Florida's Florida?

Site of the president's wigwam, by the way. Hopefully conventioneers will hit Lynch's Pub and die.

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lol uly! Also what I thought of.

I should maybe save this for #tbt but does anyone have a recommendation for a thermometer that is reliable and good value? Looks like they are finally available again.

medline should be fine, run you 10-20 bucks or so? but that's in the states, they don't seem to be for sale under that name in the uk

The cheapish ones I’ve looked at over here have very mixed reviews, a lot of people claim they are wildly innacurate

i bought the Walgreens brand cos it was literally the only one on the shelf

Am also starting to wonder about travelling. My mother and tons of friends are in Portugal (won't deny that the persistently great weather also makes me pine for a swim in the ocean), and I also worry that x-mas will be cancelled this year so it's now or 2021. But travelling w/o an emergency reason feels reckless.

i think emily oster gives good advice about how to figure out when to change your behavior in covid times

https://emilyoster.substack.com/p/when-to-change-your-mind

We have immediate family in England, Australia and scattered around the US. We have our daughter's bat mitzvah coming up in September, but right now we just assume no one but that grandparents (on the east coast) will be there, plus maybe local friends, depending on phase of reopening. The Aussies and Brits ... very, very unlikely.

Middle schools but not high schools are opening here next week. It’s only for two weeks before the summer break, there will be no grades given, and students have already turned in their books for the year. We’re not sending our youngest back under these conditions.

My wife's Mom is getting remarried July 4th weekend and is still having the wedding. Supposedly the wedding is going to be socially-distanced and only 35 people in a big restaurant, but I don't trust that for one second. It is insane to me that we're going to throw away nearly 4 months of almost total quarantine for this.

merit raises for non-union staff officially not happening this year here at Flagship State University…I'll live because I got an effective raise b/c my housemate got a job.

Substantial merit raise given then immediately put on indefinite hold in early March at Stupidly Large Corp. And now I qualify for a "voluntary retirement incentive package" (aka lay off the olds so they can't sue for age discrimination) which shit yeah I'm taking. Grandbaby being born in August. In a state a 6 hour flight away that is apparently proud of its record-breaking new cases and daily deaths - huge dilemma.

The Aussies and Brits ... very, very unlikely.

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 18 June 2020 4:25 AM (eight hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Today, Our PM re-emphasised no overseas tourism in or out this year. Brits are all gonna die IIRC

I didn't realize Australia's borders are closed and will remain closed--that is really smart.

Most of the world is closed to me, except Portugal, so I am fantasizing about a trip there. This is purely a fantasy though--for the near future (and however long after) I doubt I will even leave my state.

I am perversely pleased that Americans are being barred from so many countries after so many years of Trump trying to ban "shithole countries" from coming to the U.S. I feel like this is justice in some way.

if you're sick of quarantine hangouts with friends feeling like meetings because zoom then check out http://rambly.app

i cannot begin to imagine how badly it would go if we set one of these up for ILX

I didn't realize Australia's borders are closed and will remain closed--that is really smart.

Exceptions apply if you're rich, or the US military.

i cannot begin to imagine how badly it would go if we set one of these up for ILX

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 18 June 2020 4:10 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

Poxyfule slack will test this.

Yeah, my SIL's September Qantas flight to Chicago was officially cancelled the other day.

In other news, very in line with the thread title, I had applied to do some census work back in February or so, and now ... I really don't want to go door to door, masked and gathering information from stragglers.

Orange County FINALLY imposed a mask order....for 10 days.

not looking forward to the douches who are likely to picket this shit or raise hell outside supermarkets, but it's long overdue.

but...if they don't enforce, it is fucking useless.

The governor of TX found a loophole in his order that barred local communities from enforcing masks, so now the mayor of Austin can impose mask rules for businesses and the governor can still look like a good bootlicker for daddy Trump. What a stupid situation.

xp is that OC FL or OC CA?

OC CA is a mask shitshow too. the director of public health there received death threats/nazi imagery, etc. after she ordered mask in the usual public places and so she quit and now they have a very permissive mask law. but just today it's been superseded by a pretty strict state law.

FL

I donated blood today, and everything went smoothly. I think (if they haven't already) that given the circumstances they've loosened some of the more onerous restrictions. For example, my wife lived in Germany for a while and was therefore forbidden from donating, but I think finally she can (because they need her bloooooooooood). Everyone I talked with complemented me on my sugar skull mask, too, so it was a win for the Covid era.

Neanderthal, cheers. I cannot IMAGINE what MDC would be like w/out our mask ordinance, which no one has really protested. It might help that even the Trump-loving viejos don't wanna die.

Anyway, they're a psychological boost.

first day of mask order and our local grocery isn't doing shit to enforce it, this was the most lax it's been there in a long time. I'm trying to give them the benefit of the doubt because the city is giving businesses a few more days to have their plans in place, but they have signs on the doors saying masks are required and that's about it.