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

Depends on what material it's made out of. I have cotton washable masks, I assume whatever their effectiveness is isn't diminished by washing.

100% cotton. I'm still not getting on a bus to go to and from work.

The best, most practical guidance I've found for washing your (reusable/cotton) masks is not the more extreme omg, wash them everyday at high water temperatures and then dry them at high heat, it's to actually treat them the same way you would treat your underwear. That is, if you wear your underwear for a full day, it's probably a good idea to put on a clean pair the next day. But if you only wear your underwear for half an hour or an hour a day, you probably don't need to wash that underwear everyday, barring exceptions that would probably be pretty obvious at the time.

so like your dinner underwear

people out there with some weird underwear protocols I have never heard of before

also the best Mission Impossible movie

you don't change your underwear every half hour?

xp

underrated INXS song

if it's a sunny day, hanging your mask outdoors will dry out any droplets.

A skidmark a day keeps...well... everybody away

if you only wear your underwear for half an hour or an hour a day

great, not going to be able to sleep tonight because this image is now haunting my every waking thought

i think i'd wear it immediately after using the toilet - catch some of those tiny pee dribbles

If you wear your underwear for only half an hour a day, and then you use that same pair of underwear as a face covering half an hour of day, then taken in tandem you only have to do the wash half as much. That's just science.

if you shit in your mask, make sure you wash it before putting it back on your face

ah, so that’s what i’ve been doing wrong

sales of brown masks are up

that's why I change my underwear once every 30 mins. yes I do have a high fibre diet thanks for asking

This thread has taken a disturbingly scatological turn.

https://wmmr.com/2020/05/26/woman-protests-lockdown-bikini-made-of-masks/

If you stay in bed in your dressing gown all day, you don't even need underwear.

"performance art"

lol I went into the comments on that performance artist's posts and one of my friends had already ripped her apart a month ago

My rona test came back negative 6 hours after I had the swab but I didn’t know for 6 days because I missed the text message.

Doesn’t really matter, we’re back in lockdown from tomorrow anyway.

if it's like most text messages from a hospital, it was like

31304 PATIENT, Ed TRANSACTION ID 3242DA NEGATIVE
DO YOU WANT TO SUBSCRIBE TO THIS TEXT
ANSWER NO FOR MORE OPTIONS

RESPONSE CODE 92SAPOLOGY TEXT
WAS INVENTED BY FUTURE
REPLY YES TO SUBSCRIBE
ANSWER NOW FOR NO MORE OPTIONS
ANSWER NO FOR MORE OPTIONS NOW

My wife and I got back Sunday from our weekend trip to my mother-in-law's wedding, presumably without COVID-19 in tow. After originally cancelling a week ago, we finally agreed to be there. We stayed outside for the picnic the night before, wore masks mostly, and socially distanced always, going inside to use the bathroom for two minutes one time each. Sunday we went inside the restaurant with masks for the ceremony for about twenty minutes, then stayed outside and socially distanced for another forty minutes, then got the hell out of there.

Everyone wore masks and socially distanced for the most part, but there was some sloppy mask (i.e mask on but off nose). I am glad the entire experience is over.

*sloppy mask usage*

Oh cool, my boss just says the WHO says don’t wear masks, just stand 1 meter apart.

Just got an email from my work asking me to read and accept a return-to-work document, so looks like we're good to go!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PU5xxh5UX4U

h cool, my boss just says the WHO says don’t wear masks, just stand 1 meter apart.

― Notes on Scampo (tokyo rosemary), Tuesday, July 7, 2020

usually good advice if Roger Daltrey is shirtless in a room

loools. did you know. there is the owl. FUCK. sometimes i am a guitar string. and it sings like the blood of a muppet. AEROSM(scene missing)ITH? are you now the cried. HARMLESS?!

lol rong thread

really want to read the right thread now

haha same, trying to imagine the thread where that clicks into sense

it’s the secret sloppy mask borad

We're wise to your #onethread schemes, Neanderthal.

first person I knew with Covid just died. My ex's mother in AZ.

:(. Sorry to hear that

Sorry, Prez.

Sorry PK

https://www.dropbox.com/s/4cx2fw646x8srdp/File%202020-07-08%207%2007%2013.jpeg?raw=1

As you can see someone trying to sell me cat food can put their name on the text, the result (in the middle) looks like some random marketing email.

Very much hoping that is also the right thread.

for venting our irrational Cat Food Fears and Experiences in 2020

Hurry!

Pretty sure Austin, TX is going to shut down businesses again some time in the next week.

I’ve been hearing oregon will shut down in restaurant dining and bars for like two weeks now, nothing

https://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/crime/2020/07/07/knoxville-man-pulled-box-cutter-bus-driver-after-asked-wear-mask-warrants-state/5390345002/

Mugshots are getting a little too polished if you ask me

Everybody wants to be Mugshot BAE.

I suppose it was inevitable, but even though things are seemingly on track here, my older daughter's high school will be remote learning again for 2020-2021. There are just too many students and not enough space to ... space out. (I think they did the math and it would take an hour just to take 300 temperatures each day.) I believe the plan is divide all the students into A and B groups, each "going" to their virtual classes twice a week for an entire school day, with Wednesdays off. This is all understandable but less than ideal, of course, and even though they have built in time and resources for the kids who need the most help to get that help, I wonder what longterm effect this will have on learning for everyone. I was talking to a teacher some months back about two siblings she had in class, one with special needs and the other on gifted and talented track. She was worried more about the former, but that student apparently did ok with the remote system, whereas the gifted and talented student's grades took a huge hit (maybe because she knew the work didn't count, or not the same way?). I just heard from a friend whose son had a similarly topsy-turvy experience, apparently writing and doing his best on a paper at the end of last year because he *didn't* have to deal with the distractions and tedious structure of classroom instructions. I have no idea what this means for seniors, many of whom are readying themselves for colleges that similarly may or may not happen, at least not traditionally. I can only hope that they've devised a superior solution to the ad hoc instruction they tossed together at the start of this mess, which admittedly could have been worse.

If there's any silver lining to this school stuff it's that, ironically, we may find ourselves in a situation where the kids can't go to school because the schools can't make it safe for everyone, but kid may finally be allowed to hang out with groups of friends outside of school, which could assuage some concerns about their emotional growth and health.