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

and also people don't un-get sick once a vaccine arrives

so, my sister has it. she showed some symptoms on Friday, went to get tested and got the results today. her symptoms are mild and she doesn't seem worried. from what i can tell, if it's going to get worse it'll happen 5-10 days from onset, so tomorrow through Saturday.

she has an infant and a toddler and seems fatalistic about being able to isolate from her husband when they're already just barely functioning. i tried to convince her that anything she does will reduce his viral load and is worth doing, even if it's not perfect.

time to call my parents ...

So sorry to hear it, lukas! What a rough spot for them to be in. Hoping for the best.

so sorry lukas.

Best to you and yours, Lukas.

Now it's becoming real again with over half of my daughter's year group isolating at home as contacts of positive cases.

― here we go, ten in a rona (onimo), Friday, 6 November 2020 15:23 (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink

since discovered that my daughter's friend (tested +ve), her sister (also +ve) and their mother (you guessed it) were all spotted in the local shopping mall catching up on a bit of Christmas shopping while everyone else is isolating because of them and I could just fucking

To be perfectly honest, if it wasn't the election, it would be the pandemic that is proof that Americans are too selfish to live.

xp call the cops on 'em imo.

In the words of big patso

@Tesco am no a grass

— Patso Perpète (@big_patso) March 23, 2015

but yes, tempted

To be perfectly honest, if it wasn't the election, it would be the pandemic that is proof that Americans are too selfish to live.

No reason to give a pass to onimo's neighbours imo.

Shit, Lukas, that sounds like a lot. At the very least I hope there is some comfort for them in knowing they have someone like you advocating for them and helping them out however you can. Sending good vibes your way.

All th best, Lukas.

Onimo, you need to call that shot in or at least publicly shame these arseholes. These jokers are putting people’s health, safety, lives at risk in an act of pure selfishness.

Man, I just really hate how I feel tonight. I’ve essentially just given up hope that things are ever going to get better. Fuck this pandemic, fuck the lack of competent leadership in this shitty country and most importantly, fuck the selfish people who refuse to take even the most basic steps to mitigate this disaster - thanks to you, we may never see the end of this.

Feeling you my man

I’m dreading this winter, it’s going to be a real challenge. But it’ll turn around. There’s something better on the other side of this shit.

If you survive enough disasters, then even if you aren't sure you'll survive another, you no longer feel like disasters are not survivable. That's about where I am now. I always have my eye out for the flying monkeys to come and trounce me, but I figure there are way too many of us for the flying monkeys to destroy.

My uncle, who is 89, was just diagnosed positive

Uh, sorry.

sorry Dan, best wishes to him

Sorry Dan, sending good thoughts to you and your family.

So sorry, Dan. Best wishes for his health.

best wishes for your uncle, Dan.

He was not hospitalized and his daughter/granddaughter are monitoring his oxygen levels, which have been pretty steady even though he's been physically weak. He fell twice a week and a half ago and they took him to the ER thinking he'd had another stroke.

best wishes to you and lukas; fuck this pandemic

ugh. what hell that would be on anybody's psyche. glad to hear his oxygen has been steady

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sorry Dan sending positive thoughts

Sending love to you and your uncle xx

Sorry, DJP. Best to your uncle.

That sucks Dan, sorry.

I'm sorry, Dan. Hoping the best for you and your family.

Sending well wishes to you and him, Dan

So sorry to hear that Dan.

<3 DJP and family

Best wishes DJP

Rough stuff Dan. Hang tough.

Best of all possible thoughts to people in the Daniverse.

Best to your uncle, Dan.

I'm going to read through the thread, but ...

Guess just want to ask, for those who may (also) have high school age children who have to learn from home, how are they weathering this nightmare emotionally and academically?

I have an 8th grader and it sux

My daughters, 18 and 14, were due to return to me yesterday. Both of them, and their mom, are sick, each w/ different symptoms—nausea, headache, cough, fatigue.

They've been tested at three different places the past two days and we're still awaiting results. That this still takes days to find out is maddening.

I don't have kids but a super-sweet couple moved next door to us from NYC and have a fifteen month-old. They say he is super-fascinated when he sees another young kid. Just imagining him not being able to hang out with other kids bums me out.

Raymond, my younger daugter has been managing but I see it taking its toll now—not academically but emotionally. It's a grind, sitting there all day w/ only short breaks and then for some reason way too much homework on top of that. She's been in therapy for several months and we are bracing for the winter months.

My older daughter has a different schedule, is taking several college-level courses. She's also applying to schools which I think is exciting for her and somewhat distracting. She seems to be managing better.

Trying to come to terms with the second-best scenario, that they are positive but come through, and I won't be able to see them for a couple of weeks...

Sorry to hear that Hadrian

xxxp 1-2 year olds for the most part are self-contained, they are focused on parents and they play alone for the most part. parents like to pair them with other 1-2 year olds and they may be momentarily fascinated, but for the most part it's "parallel play" and they don't interact directly that much.

didn't express that very well, but if I were to be a parent during this pandemic I would want to have a kid who was 1-2-3 years old, it seems like it would have the least negative impact on their life

I was just imagining socialization effects later from not having those experiences in formative years, but if that's not the case that is good.

i agree w dan. first four years of my life were spent in a house in the absolute middle of nowhere, tennessee. i can still remember visitors from then, it was so rare. (one woman gave me a stick of gum - unimaginably exotic). and look at me n--- oh shit

Hadrian and YMP, I feel that. Thanks for sharing.

This whole thing - which started in March - has not been great for my son on either level. Absolutely the worst way to start high school, among other things. This is hell on young people.

Best wishes, Dan.

Raymond C., I wish you and your peeps peace and strength.

We came into this with generally sweet, decently happy, reasonably well-adjusted children.

Eldest had been, at times, stressed by middle school - but mostly bearing up okay. Plenty of strong friends plus fulfilling, sustaining interests that included chorus, dance, and musical theater.

Adolescence can be rough under the best of circumstances (my own teendom was not exactly a picnic, despite buckets of privilege). My child has had to navigate much of this stuff during the weirdest year imaginable.

We've been on a bit of a roller-coaster with sexuality and gender happenings, plus all the other "normal" stressors, plus current events being a freaking shiteshow.

Navigating remote school is plenty tough, but it's like fifteenth on my list of concerns right now tbh.