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

Surely these events are only getting cancelled because the attendees are canceling and dropping below profitable levels, not because any of the promoters care about public health?

― change display name (Jordan), Monday, March 9, 2020 5:28 PM (sixteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

replace "attendees" with "sponsors" and i think that's it

xpost, you can hold on to them and get them doled out one by one until they become so stale and unsatisfying and you can no longer trade them for nudies.

Read this:

https://tobacco.ucsf.edu/reduce-your-risk-serious-lung-disease-caused-corona-virus-quitting-smoking-and-vaping

tbh i am self-isolating just bc i have a sinus headache, which is not uncommon for me to feel when the weather suddenly changes (it was 70 degrees in new york today and it's been unusually dry all weekend). no fever, but i can work from home so why risk it

on a busy college campus, feeling the fear. just used sanitizer.

All right I guess I'm cancelling the lobbying trip to Albany on Wednesday and figuring out what to do with my hands from 8-12pm. Here goes nothing.

You can start touching your face like the rest of us.

sew? I made a bookstore/library out of a miniature kit last year. It took me almost a day just to make and upholster the tiny armchair. I have a two story japanese house miniature kit all ready for me right now.

Which reminds me, I need to assemble my sake bring equipment before we go into lockdown.

I did see that on the WHO coronavirus prep guide.

I can run out of TP but heaven forbid I run out of Booze.

Speaking of prep, friend of mind put together a shopping list + recipes for 2-3 weeks of lockdown: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YAwdt5R0bDl-9aBqfYxzTWZYR1-vAKktO9bZZUSYoL0/edit?usp=sharing

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I usually spend those hours reading and drinking wine, which is great but leaves my hands unoccupied and unfortunately goes really well with smoking contemplatively while turing pages. I already tried cooking elaborate meals every day since I'm not working right now, but that made us both fat so that's out. I tried to get C to take up crochet, maybe there's still a boxed kit around somewhere. I predict desperation.

xpost Booze. I could throw a bunch of dinner parties 10xs over OR have the supplies to do makeshift surgery here. Pick one.

in orbit ,caramelizing a huge batch of onions like 2 dozen takes forever, is worthwhile (it freezes well) and is meditative.

Or could make a lot of custard. It’s the stirring really.

surely onions kill viruses

Maybe I’ll finally make some progress on some books and videogames. Tomorrow I shall quit smoking AND ilx!

I'll think of something. Crochet or some kind of hand-craft really does seem somewhat likely, kind of the way I play Candy Crush while watching White Collar. Maybe I could rediscover calligraphy.

I’m betting on garlic right now. My last line of defense is the Hunan takeaway.

Everyoen I know went to Golden Plains over the weekend (big 3 day hipster music fest out in the bush) and no one seemed wary. I guess I'll find out if 3/4 of Brunswick suddenly falls ill in a week's time.

i plan on listening to a lot of jazz fusion

score match is available on the google play store

i'm also working my way through the resident evil movies again

Coachella postponed to October

No cases within 100 miles that I know of but I decided against a pizza buffet for dinner. There are enough snot-nosed kids in the best of times.

Fuckholes:

https://news.avclub.com/defying-all-logic-and-reason-the-world-record-for-larg-1842216045?rev=1583777288023&utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=SocialMarketing&utm_content=Main&utm_campaign=SF&fbclid=IwAR2LyXaKPo4jmlOvovpIKFooAiVDLCFozGhb9NbZjeuqImndMJUTb0aCJXY

Not sure if anyone's posted this page yet:

http://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-cases/

Seems like a good round-up of graphs. A couple of them ("Total Cases excluding mainland China") do look scary.

I was able to reserve 12 rolls of toilet paper at Target online to pick up. When I arrived, its surrounding plastic was all torn up as if someone squirreled it away among the rakes in case they needed to come back and buy even more tp for themselves later to clutch tontheir chest while sleeping. Or perhaps a poor employee had to fight off a riot to uphold the validity of the online ordering process and reserve what is rightfully mine. Either way, I made it clear to the nice person that helped me that I am not a prepper, and it's just that our normal household shitting cycle had bad timing.

so I'm guessing there are going to lots of people walking around unwiped in many cities in the near future?

man, my prospects on Tinder have just improved 200 fold

Is "the human bidet" your occupation?

already had one friend of a friend grouse that if we let everybody work from home, that's when massive timecard fraud might occur.

it just amazes me that the first thought process is 'how can people take advantage of the system'? Like, I've been a virtual employee for 8 years, and...if you're committing timecard fraud, actually not doing work you're being paid to do....you'll be discovered. It really isn't difficult. Not to mention, if you have the type of job you can do at home, chances are, you could find a way to shirk your responsibilities in the office too.

xpost dear god no I just mean finally I'll be less grody than more than half the population

also more timecard fraud is good

I mean I'm not sayin I once worked an 8 hour shift while secretly on a Greyhound bus to Atlanta to see Megadeth with only my work phone and no laptop in tow but.....

"I'm Too Sexy for This Job" by Time Card Fraud

From The Great Influenza

In Britain the War Office published recommendations for therapy in The Lancet. They were far more specific than any guidance in the United States, and likely did relieve some symptoms. For sleep, twenty grains of bromide, opiates to relax cough, and oxygen for cyanosis. The recommendations warned that venesection was seldom beneficial, that alcohol was invaluable, but that little could be gained by giving food. For headache: antipyrin and salicylic acid—aspirin. To stimulate the heart: strychnine and digitalis.

next, a run on white claws

this may be refractory anxiety from a recent health scare but this whole thing is giving me the fantods. we're prepping for an extended work from home period and I am not looking forward to that amount of isolation

Surely these events are only getting cancelled because the attendees are canceling and dropping below profitable levels, not because any of the promoters care about public health?

― change display name (Jordan), Monday, March 9, 2020 5:28 PM (sixteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

replace "attendees" with "sponsors" and i think that's it

Even if I do have to go into isolation, at least I will be able to sit on my roof and listen to the magpies and currawongs and watch the bats.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1236933818654896129.html

italy - entire country in lockdown
france - time for a smurf festival https://t.co/32UpOnbp8a

— the irishman* (@mrgracemugabe) March 9, 2020

"There's no risk (from coronavirus) we're Smurfs!"

It could be the answer to the pandemic.

With every passing day I become more convinced this will kill me.

Have you considered coating yourself in blue from head to toes?

I saw those people
they were turning blue
Oh, I knew that soon
Their young lives were through

Smurfing while Rome burns etc.

Well wonder how long its going to be before it's France's turn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEl8IBv98vg

I'm not so worried about getting this/what will happen to me if I get this, which is funny because I am usually a super-hypochondriac. But I do worry about being a vector. Selfishly, there are a couple of concerts coming up that I want to go to and I'm feeling bummed about the prospect of maybe missing them if I get sick/them getting cancelled.

To put it another way: if I choose to go to said concerts, I'll feel guilty about not doing my part to support public health lol