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

Yeah, even a semblance of mitigation would help, but it's just delaying the inevitable.

You see? I'm really not a ball of sunshine.

There's very little we can do about a lot of these external forces, and so the real issue (to me) is how to live life in the best and most ethical way in the present, even when everything is crumbling round us.

At the same time, for those with kids and families and the economic ability to do so, I'd buy some land in the North Woods near a fresh water source. At least then, your kids will learn how to live on and with the land in a way that they will need to in the future if they want to survive.

(Also, those of us without kids or families should also do so, to pass on to future generations of queers)

I wear a size 7 3/4 fitted hat (pretty large) and the disposables plus an earsaver are the most comfortable for me.

oops

lol from Bryn Mawr college:

I have been approached by a number of people worried about those who will not comply. Some staff and faculty are focused on student compliance. I do want to remind you that Bryn Mawr students are not a random sample of 18- to 22-year-olds. In a recent survey for residential life, reading was the most popular leisure activity.

My mom went there and indeed, I grew up with babysitters who went to Bryn Mawr...and yes, that is mostly true. If they're not bookish lesbians, they're somewhat wild international students with uptight religious parents. (I had a number of babysitters from Pakistan, for example, all of whom were really into hip-hop and hitting my parents' liquor cabinet).

did the cabinet hit them back at least?

I worked at the sister school Haverford, and BM students had a bit of rep for wildness among the students there

Wow, Haverford seemed sober but not that sober! I spent a lot of time there as well, my piano teacher's husband was a music prof. Cacioppo was his name

checking back in to say i dodged a bullet and didn't get sick, whew

also to post this shot-for-shot remake of the final sequence of 2001: a space odyssey, filmed entirely in lydia cambron's apartment in brooklyn. p funny/cute

https://vimeo.com/446927270

amazing!! i am really inspired by the dedication

what WAS your obelisk? that thing is incredible

Going to try to sign up for a Phase 3 vaccine trial in my city.

Thanks for sharing the space odyssey clip, Davey!
The monolith looks like it's maybe a rowing machine on end?

everyone should watch that video, it's amazing

or wait, maybe everyone is! seems like it's been viewed about 15K times since yesterday, nice!

also i just now realized that davey didn't make it. i totally thought they did, oops! still, it's really neat

i'm used to people i know putting insane effort into things that no one cares about because they're not already famous, so i kind of figured that video was going to end up in three-digit views hell, the fate of 99% of every creative video

wish i made that video, it captures the quar zeitgeist so well, and it’s rlly funny :)

I basically hate most of the US because people's response to the pandemic has been so fucking idiotic that my visitation schedule has been obliterated. Not only have I not seen my kids since February, because I have to fly if I want to see them I am exposing myself to infection which I could pass onto them (they both have asthma) AND unless testing lines up both in my home state and in theirs, I would have to quarantine for two weeks both on their side and when coming back home, and the same holds true if they travel to me.

Oh, that is awful, so sorry.

wow. sorry dan.

Ugh, sorry to hear that, DJP.

I've been wondering about that; good at least to see you venting, and sympathies, Dan.

I was about to post that the 2001 video almost makes Covid worthwhile, but Dan's post (of course) shows otherwise, however much I would have been trying to be silly.

Dan, that's awful. My sympathies to you and yr kids! A friend is dealing with similar issues, and it sounds immensely difficult

definitely, sorry to hear that djp. i know we all try to keep in mind that covid19 is a stressor on everyone and people have stuff going on behind the scenes that they don't mention, but there's a wide range of stress, and that seems particularly awful. :(

Sorry you’re having to go through that, Dan.

Oh wow, I'm really sorry to hear that DJP. I had no idea. I can't imagine how much of struggle that must be.

that's fuckin' terrible, and a logistical nightmare to boot. I'm sorry, bud. :(

Very sorry DJP. Wish you the best in dealing with tough circumstances.

Miserable to hear that. Very sorry indeed.

yes

Sorry to hear.

Shit Dan. I can definitely relate to hating large swaths of American humanity right now , but I’d probably hate them about 10x more in that situation.

Dan <3

stopped drinking so much months ago when I realized this was gonna be a long-haul quarantine

got a 4 pack of Delerium tonight

feelin goooood

Remember to drink water! Enjoy!

ya, hydrating is the thing i always forget...

Speaking of hydration, seeing a lot more people posting stuff on social media of themselves hanging out with groups of people indoors with no masks on.

I've acquainted myself with many shitheads in my life but let's just say with the election and this, a great unfriending has begun

3 people taken by covid this week: a cousin I always looked up to, in North Carolina after 5 weeks in ICU; a work colleague in Alabama who taught me so much of what I needed to do my job after 4 weeks in ICU; the delightful guy who raised the cat I adopted last November, in Arkansas after 6 weeks in ICU. So sad and so angry.

That’s terrible, I’m sorry for you loss and I share your anger, it’s so unnecessary.

The loss is unnecessary, not the anger, that is very appropriate right now.

Also Dan, I am sorry for your situation as well.

So sorry Jaq.

Thanks Ed and table. It's horrendous this administration and so many citizens of this forsaken country are fine with letting hundreds of thousands of people die and countless others suffer long-term disabilities.

Oh, Jaq, sorry.

Not just one, but three people you care about? Damn, Jaq! The tripled sadness is more than enough to cope with. Adding anger over the injustice of the situation makes it that much harder. Take care of yourself. We don't want to lose you, too.

Miserable indeed, and condolences to you, Jaq. The stories creep closer around me in general all the time -- friends of friends like Jaq's -- and it's the not knowing where it will stop that's the horrid part.

so sorry to hear that. that is horrible. :(

one of my good friends, who has terminal Stage 4 colon cancer, just found out his mother in assisted living was diagnosed with COVID-19 yesterday. the patients are all quarantined so it's staffers who are bringing it into the community. he's...notably worried and upset.

I am afraid of just how many people will lose someone due to COVID...nobody deserves to go what you're going through, Jaq

Also thinking of yr friend, Neanderthal! Stage IV colon cancer is no joke, I should know!