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

That number, by the way, I suspect largely stems from exposure *outside* of the school. Sports, family, friends, etc.

Okay bud.

Yesterday was Thursday. The kids had their first day of school on Tuesday. Omicrom is fast, but not that fast.

Not questioning why you conjectured; conjecturing why you don’t allow that info to inform your opinions about future mitigation including e.g. temporary shutdown

Huh? They can shutdown everything as far as I'm concerned. They should have taken a break after (um) winter break and had a plan in place to deal with this rather than just let cooties run rampant.

And yet there are something like four covid threads on the go for the same people to breathlessly post updates about every related thought they have, while ilx itself is comatose, and you think this is normal?

If there's a "Fuck COVID" thread I can't find it. My Aunt Donna's health has been fragile for the last several years. Last year she moved into assisted living. I just learned that recently 1) she had a UTI, 2) was briefly hospitalized for not waking up, and 3) while at the hospital was found to be COVID-positive (despite full vaccination and booster). Her mental acuity varies from day to day. She's back in assisted living, but for hospice/palliative care. Fuck COVID, and 2022 so far has more than the RDA of shittiness.

I'm so sorry, J.lu.

Xp I’m very sorry for your aunt’s condition, but that actually underlines what I was saying, given the people in question are posting much more with much less reason.

posting much more with much less reason

"irrational" is right in the thread title. seems like an invitation.

jesus gyac, let it go. its in incredibly poor taste to use a post like that to underline your own bizarre point.

jesus gyac, let it go. its in incredibly poor taste to use a post like that to underline your own bizarre point.

No interest in popping off on anyone, I'm just tired of you beating this particular drum. I think you're wrong to be so annoyed by how people are posting itt.

If you think, gyac, LX is comatose, I direct you to the year-end music thread and the excelsior thread

here's a thing that I feel like this thread illustrates for me about ilx -- is that there seems like a big difference in how posters think of threads. Are threads more like conversations, where what to post and how often one posts is contextual in terms of other people's participation ... or, are threads more like folders, where the issue is "does my post belong in the categorical topic of this thread" and appropriateness is more related to folder-type issues like "searchability" ... from a "thread is like a folder" standpoint, yes, gyac's point is "bizarre" -- from a "thread is like a conversation" -- it is a pretty understandable and crucial point.

No interest in popping off on anyone, I'm just tired of you beating this particular drum. I think you're wrong to be so annoyed by how people are posting itt.

If you think, gyac, LX is comatose, I direct you to the year-end music thread and the excelsior thread

Get fucked, Alfred.

― mardheamac (gyac)

you're talking to a gay man, so wheeeee!

Literally read the initial post I made, if any of you are capable. Read it again and tell me I’m wrong rather than focusing on “wah wah mean!!!” or “ilx isn’t dead it’s just the same twenty people posting!” Honestly.

I've been in your corner, babycakes. If a majority of small posters "misreads" you, try another language or step awa.

*away

Fwiw I did read your complaint and I'm truly sorry about your struggles. I guess I just don't see anything THAT out of line with what people are sharing. Some of us do have to test quite frequently (I'm back to having to test weekly for work), so of course some people are going to share results far more often than others. I guess if you have a problem with people sharing their testing experiences in general, that's a different conversation I guess. And with people stuck at home, working remotely, isolated or whatever, maybe coming to this thread is one of the few outlets they have to share.

I mean, I know I did my fair share of doomposting last year that annoyed a whole lot of folks and, in retrospect, I wish I hadn't done so. But, hell, it was the reality of how (poorly) I was processing the pandemic at that point and I'll own it.

tl;dr - I'm choosing to give folks itt a ton of leeway with how they want to use it, even when it annoys. it's a still raging global pandemic and we all process it differently

I've been in your corner, babycakes. If a majority of small posters "misreads" you, try another language or step awa.

This is like Alito quoting Thurgood Marshall.

I’m not really bothered about the opinion of someone who read posts where I mentioned being suicidal and chose to focus on “ilx isn’t dead”, sorry.

the post was about a specific type of repetitive behavior, i think it was clear enough and understood it well. it wasn't a comment about individual posts being the "wrong" way to use a thread.

I apologize for using "dead" in a sentence. You made it sound in your posts, though, as if ILX's COVID posts had quashed other threads.

I don’t think you understood the point I’m making. It wasn’t your word choice that mattered.

I've reread the last day of posts a couple of times and have no idea what this argument is about, tbh. I'm just going to keep posting to this thread the way I always have. Lmk if it's out of line.

Id only weigh in to note that a retort of "where else should all the covid shitposting go, a NON-covid thread? dont be silly! !1!1!1!1!" is surely somewhat a wilful evasion of the points raised

But yis are correct ofc, nobody has to read any thread about anything, blogging vomitously in all threads is in fact good now

no posting occurs in a vacuum

Well maybe we should establish the correct number of posts per thread per user each day to give us a baseline about what is acceptable or not.

Dyson with death tbh

xp
lol r u trolling deems

But I heard a meteor just pierced the thread and may have let the protomolecule in so better put on vac suits, pronto! #onethread #xp

Dyson
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/81/A_Dyson_Swarm_Superstructure_%2821983905140%29.png

Well maybe we should establish the correct number of posts per thread per user each day to give us a baseline about what is acceptable or not.

― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 7 January 2022 19:28 (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Id happily set a maximum target per poster if that was in any way the actual point or i thought yed fuckin abide by it, but alas

Perhaps not the entire point, but it sure seems like given posters' logorrhea is the crux of the issue here.

diarrhea is in fact the word

there is a group that thinks posting in bulk about covid is healthy in a "let those frustrations out, mate" sense. another group thinks posting in bulk about covid is annoying. gyac thinks the former group is wrong because, actually, posting in bulk about covid is both unhealthy and annoying. Private Hudson says "game over, man" while picking up debris from the explosion.

I love this. Note the timestamps.

Literally read the initial post I made, if any of you are capable.

― mardheamac (gyac)... 10:46 AM

I've been in your corner, babycakes.

― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn)... 10:48 AM

(gyac quotes lagoon:) ive said it before and ill say it again, if youre going to be condescending you gotta be smart, being condescending is such an affront that you really have to bring your A game...

― mardheamac (gyac)... 10:50 AM

Oh, the irony!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mh3oxxuoC0

I must admit I haven’t really seen the problem with one or two of the posts that dmac, gyac & others have singled out with this complaint - eg taken in isolation reposting commentary on news from health experts seems to me a straightforwardly benign & on-topic use of these threads tbh (& stuff posted with the explicit purpose of countering “doomposting” being folded into “doomposting” idk)

But that’s in isolation - I def can see the argument that some posters could stand to chill a bit & not be constantly set to Transmit, & if enough ppl are saying it…

For me these threads are fine because I tend to skim over a lot of the longer posts & mainly use it for updates as I don’t follow this stuff anywhere else anymore

I am uncomfortable with “oh, we’re all virology experts now?” type scoffing because it’s a bit too close to the “hipster analysis” thing, ordinary ppl are allowed opinions on public health policy that affects them, this is a discussion board ppl discuss things, we are gonna discuss the ongoing catastrophe we are all living thru — but if a number of posters are finding it hard to use the threads for that purpose because of a sense some ppl are monologising rather than discussing that is worth considering

Also j.lu I’m so sorry to hear about your aunt Donna, fuck covid indeed

That's a reasonable post wins, maybe the answer might be gently suggesting something directly to the specific poster(s) in question instead of hoping to accomplish the result via oblique swipes?

That's a reasonable post wins, maybe the answer might be gently suggesting something directly to the specific poster(s) in question instead of hoping to accomplish the result via oblique swipes?

gyac, I apologize with every breath in me. I did read your posts. I just couldn't understand implicitly or explicitly casting shade on other posters for whom data, testing updates, and other detritus form their own ways of coping. Certainly I'm with you: sometimes I roll my eyes and don't click on the thread for a couple days, especially when I've got a WhatsApp thread with a buddy who doomposts every hour.

In any event, accept my apologies.

xpost - Fwiw the "oblique swipes" wasn't aimed at you or any other specific poster, just a general comment on how there seems to be a lot of times where someone makes a (maybe valid, maybe not) complaint about behavior in a thread in an oblique, rather than direct, way. I get that you can't always control how the other person responds to the request (ime, a problem irl too!), but it seems like if you don't address the specific behavior by any certain specific poster you are even less likely so see a change.

likely "to" see a change

i think part of gyac's concern is not the anxiety posting itself but the enabling of it from people who should know better (which applies to me, and is duly noted).

I made my point, I thought, pretty clearly and I’ve had Alfred and someone old enough to be my actual dad come up and start scoffing at me as though my point was not made in seriousness

The reference to me is plain enough. Rather than scoffing, I was chuckling. You aimed to poke Alfred in the eye and managed to poke your own at the same time.

lol, just correcting the record, inevitably my daughter was totally wrong. More like 200 or so kids sick at the school not close to 700.