Went for a modest run, and boy, am I already starting to see masks and gloves littered all over the place.
Went on my sixth delivery run today and my lord the # of gloves and masks littering public transit is abhorrent.
― brechtian social distancing (Simon H.), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 00:46 (four years ago) link
people are fucking pigs
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 00:54 (four years ago) link
It depends on the state of your relationship overall
unperson otm
― lefal junglist platton (wtev), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 04:34 (four years ago) link
Watdching a live stream of my dad's send off and seeing taht people in Kenya either don't get social distancing or haven't had it introduced asa restriction. They had a curfew a couple of weeks ago in Nairobi at least.Depressing to think that in a group so9 large at least one p[erson has presumably got it and may have spread it further.
Not sure what I was expecting, Dad's wife and their children? I guess he came from a reasonably large family so what counts as immediate family covers a lot of people.I was expoecting an interment and a later memorial service once the virus was gone. Now feeling powerless to see a potential disaster. Hope against hope it doesn't spread any further among these people.
Thought it odd taht commercial internal flights were still happening for the family to get half way across the country.Dad was 81, i think his wife must be something similar. & so must Dad's siblings. and other peers.
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 08:37 (four years ago) link
I went shopping on Saturday and found the car park had a load of gloves floating around it. Also the pavement on the walk up there had a number of gloves lying there.Great way to contain the spread.
Also noticing there's a load of people walking around in teh same pair of gloves for ages.So are probably thinking that's an end in itself not just that any virus contact will be spread elsewhere by the gloves. Don't like wasting so much plastic on changing pairs between every shop but think it is probably a lot safer.
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 08:53 (four years ago) link
sorry you've lost you dad stevolende
― ymo sumac (NickB), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 08:56 (four years ago) link
MY dad's ceremony has a lot of people walking around in surgical masks and now has a priest talking about Corona but it would just appear a bit wasted if people aren't keeping distance and arehugging and shaking hands freely. Or queuing up to pay tribute to the open casket or whatever.Don't want to be thinking about that at a time like this. But would have thought the safety measures would need to be pretty universal
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 08:56 (four years ago) link
Dad died of an existing condition at a time taht the virus is heavily around. I was thinking it was probably better that it was immediate than him lingering in restricted conditions.& that the funeral wasn't going to b etaht since I thought there was a larger event penciled in for later this year for precisely that reason.So really do not want to think of people having attended this taking the virus with them to allparts of Kenya and elsewhere.THought they were too intelligent to be doing something like taht.
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 08:59 (four years ago) link
Stevo I'm so sorry.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 09:12 (four years ago) link
I've now been told that in Kenya the Coronavirus has been concentrated in Nairobi , the capital city and Mombasa one of the big ports.So anybody in the area near the banks of Lake Victoria should be safe to congregate. Is that mindlessly naive, a problem that happened in the West already or is it likely to be remotely true?& if people from both of the infected areas have flown in to attend a funeral is it still true then?
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 10:29 (four years ago) link
so sorry for your loss Stevo
― Kier today, Dom tomorrow (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 10:57 (four years ago) link
sorry to hear that stevo
― ole uncle tiktok (darraghmac), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 11:01 (four years ago) link
well hoping i don't lose any more of my family after this.
Thanks
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 11:02 (four years ago) link
oh man stevolende so sorry to hear this, sending you best wishes
― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 12:36 (four years ago) link
very sorry for your loss, stevolende
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 12:42 (four years ago) link
Condolences.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 12:43 (four years ago) link
I'm now seeing that Europe is supposed to be preparing to reduce the lockdown status over the next few weeks. Think somebody is returning school to function after Easter, like the 14th.Is that premature?
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 13:22 (four years ago) link
Not sure where you've seen "Europe preparing to reduce the lockdown", measures are still very much in the extension stage, and differ per country.
― Hey, let me drunkenly animate yr boats in about 25 to 60 days! (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 13:24 (four years ago) link
Austria is the first - and so far only - country preparing to lift lockdown measures starting the 14th. I've not heard of others following suit.
― Hey, let me drunkenly animate yr boats in about 25 to 60 days! (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 13:25 (four years ago) link
‘Europe’
― Publius Covidius Naso (pomenitul), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 13:25 (four years ago) link
Well, yeah.
― Hey, let me drunkenly animate yr boats in about 25 to 60 days! (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 13:26 (four years ago) link
Just lazily and crankily agreeing with you.
― Publius Covidius Naso (pomenitul), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 13:28 (four years ago) link
Always appreciated!
OT: is everyone on slack now? Getting quieter and quieter here.
― Hey, let me drunkenly animate yr boats in about 25 to 60 days! (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 13:32 (four years ago) link
i have not been granted the keys to slack, so no
― bam! Free bees! (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 13:34 (four years ago) link
Good man.
― Hey, let me drunkenly animate yr boats in about 25 to 60 days! (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 13:35 (four years ago) link
Slack ain’t that busy either. I think people are resting or maybe even working Don’t worry both places will be jumping when Johnson spaffs off to the great wall in the sky
― Microbes oft teem (wins), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 13:38 (four years ago) link
You don't need keys, just a slack account, the URL has been posted on various threads.
Of course, understand not wanting to divert people away from here, but also appreciating the decidedly lower stakes chatter.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 13:41 (four years ago) link
I'm cool w/ slack. Just not that cool w/ having no time for it myself because of work.
Still in office four days a week (albeit a locked down one), still have a daily commute (it's nice to go out every day by car tbf). Am I missing out on the ~real lockdown experience~ or am I lucky to be able to get away? Undecided.
― Hey, let me drunkenly animate yr boats in about 25 to 60 days! (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 14:01 (four years ago) link
Same here, except it's more like 'having no time for work because of it'.
― Publius Covidius Naso (pomenitul), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 14:02 (four years ago) link
I hear you. I desperately need to avoid that scenario though so I'm steering clear. Which is not, with everyone having cool avatars and all!
― Hey, let me drunkenly animate yr boats in about 25 to 60 days! (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 14:06 (four years ago) link
not easy, that is
same. i have been checking in a bit on evenings and weekends, though
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 15:18 (four years ago) link
I'm sorry to hear about your father, Stevolende. It's a hard thing to handle under normal circumstances, I can't even imagine the difficulty of going through that now. Be well.
― Unparalleled Elegance (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 15:25 (four years ago) link
stevolende, i'm sorry. :(
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 15:26 (four years ago) link
My condolences, Stevo, and I sincerely apologize for the snark, re: Europe. I hadn't read your previous posts yet.
― Publius Covidius Naso (pomenitul), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 15:31 (four years ago) link
Major changes at our independent grocer today (nothing the rest of the world isn't already doing): caution tape outside designating a pathway to the door, someone at the door to get your cart and give instructions (she was also monitoring how many people were inside), no personal gloves allowed. They've removed a couple of aisle displays, too, and moved the stuff to shelves. Not sure what triggered this today specifically, but I'm fine with all of it.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 17:31 (four years ago) link
can i just say how (though completely necessary) COMPLETELY FUCKED this all is?? it’s..... it’s crazy!and how there appears to be no endgame? what is the next step? Who knows??
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 18:08 (four years ago) link
my dear monsieur, perhaps you have already observed that in coronavirus, human life is cheap
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 18:19 (four years ago) link
Coooooool. Just found out that someone smashed the front door of our building in the middle of the night last night and (thankfully only) stole all of the packages out of our lobby. So nice to see that these trying times aren't keeping the scumfucks from fully embracing their scumfuckery.
― Unparalleled Elegance (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 18:26 (four years ago) link
there's totally an endgame and it's the vaccine, the how long it takes to get there and what happens before we get there are the cool things we have no knowledge about
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 18:27 (four years ago) link
― Unparalleled Elegance (Old Lunch), Tuesday, April 7, 2020 11:26 AM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink
my friends had their mail stolen last week, mail thieves on are a tear
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 18:28 (four years ago) link
Remember how you used to go away on vacation and, like it was a whole thing that you had to make your house look occupied?
Lights on timers. Mail and papers stopped. Etc.
So, it follows from that that there was a whole sector of crime devoted to breaking into unoccupied houses and taking their stuff (presumably Precious Moments figurines and doilies and costume jewelry from Claire's Boutique).
And it follows from THAT that there is a whole class of criminal that is now out of options because everybody's home all the time. I guess they could go break into offices and steal, like, coffee and toner.
Or, I guess, they could steal mail.
― cuomo money, cuomo problems (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 18:34 (four years ago) link
pathetic! there are like a million cool heists you could be doing right now
― rob, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 18:38 (four years ago) link
we're being encouraged to wear masks in public ffs
― rob, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 18:39 (four years ago) link
People who decamped to their second house in the Hamptons can still be robbed
― Josefa, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 18:41 (four years ago) link
There was a pharmacy robbery near me recently where a guy broke in through the roof and stole 3,000 oxys. I'm not saying that stealing oxys is "cool", but it did cross my mind that burglars could take advantage of all these closed businesses for some pretty impressive heists.
https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/92243896_10158507035013395_7687976242770870272_o.jpg?_nc_cat=100&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=03wdx42JK5QAX_kh3HJ&_nc_ht=scontent-lga3-1.xx&oh=85b0b93135b510b66401e2fa0d7e3c40&oe=5EB37976
― ☮️ (peace, man), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 18:55 (four years ago) link
I get that there probably not a lot of brain geniuses making a living from petty theft but stealing mail is just profoundly stupid. Congrats, I hope those random articles of clothing and diapers and whatever else were worth the federal crime you just committed, friend!
― Unparalleled Elegance (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 18:59 (four years ago) link
Iirc a lot of thieves just sell the stuff online, either directly or through someone else.In good news, my wife's company implemented work from home pretty early, and out of I think well over 3000 employees has had only one report of someone testing positive.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 19:01 (four years ago) link
rob otm. That's the spirit!
There is a recent very-not-good movie about a heist that takes place during a hurricane (on the assumption that security will be lax during a national disaster.
I'm sure you're all on tenterhooks so I will reveal that the name of this movie that is about a hurricane with a heist in it is...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hurricane_Heist
― cuomo money, cuomo problems (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 19:35 (four years ago) link
the bus that couldnt slow down
― adam, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 19:40 (four years ago) link