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

I went into my dark classroom at my closed school to empty out my little mini refrigerator. I ran into one of my students, who was cleaning his locker. We stood ten feet apart from each other and said “be good!” and it rang really hollow. The biggest source of my happiness is my students, and... I can’t do anything for/about them right now. Feels super helpless.

sweet innocent phone SMS dictionary that still knows not the word "coronavirus"

TS: coughing into your sleeve vs opening door handles with your sleeve

I feel it's unwise to do both

Need sleeve's opinion on this obv

maybe door handle will have an opinion too

I told my spouse there is no way i am doing the cheek kiss or hug or dancing with anyone other than him at this wedding we have to go to on saturday. He was like "what will you do if they try." I told him I would give them the shaka in front of their face and then do the ps4 spiderman off the wall attack.

yes, agree soda!!
i haven't been feeling despair -- in fact, I feel like my pandemic personality is weirdly lighthearted and my sense of humor seems alive and well. if I can make people lol my existence isn't entirely pointless. I'm anticipating at least a few bouts of loneliness though.

my partner already works from home so nothing has changed for him; I'm sure I will annoy him more than once.

LOL so I have on-off problems with insomnia during normal times anyway but I am now running on about > 3 hours of sleep in as many days. I haven't been up all night spinning doomsday scenarios in my head, it's more just like my body/mind is just on general High Alert. Of course I end up thinking about how lack of sleep depresses your immune system, and the spiral continues...ugh. Just glad I can work from home.

Xpost to yerac
Williamsburg Brooklyn

oh yeah, i was in williamsburg near graham during sandy. I think everyone will be staying away from each other though. Some people are just bad dog owners and will totally invade your space even if you have no desire to talk to them or their dog and are slowly backing away the entire time. Dogs can catch covid supposedly, so I would be careful.

i would probably even wear a mask while walking the dog just to signal to stay away.

so has anyone spoken to Purell or their parent company to find out exactly wtf is the deal with the shortage? I get that there was a run on these products for a week or so but do they have any idea when they're going to be able to stock back up?

Dogs can catch covid supposedly

― Yerac, Friday, March 13, 2020 8:08 AM (nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

i thought the who just confirmed the other day that they can't

! did they disprove it? I am looking again and still only see reports of a dog with a "low level infection" from someone who had it.

i have no idea what is true here, all i saw is some meme going around. gist was 'WHO let the dogs out'

Ok I see the WHO thing from a couple of days ago, but I mean I would assume dogs could get the virus (like in the case that was reported in multiple places) but won't be "sick". But it's more that when you walk your dog people want to come over because their dog wants to "say hi." and just...no.

LOL so I have on-off problems with insomnia during normal times anyway but I am now running on about > 3 hours of sleep in as many days. I haven't been up all night spinning doomsday scenarios in my head, it's more just like my body/mind is just on general High Alert. Of course I end up thinking about how lack of sleep depresses your immune system, and the spiral continues...ugh. Just glad I can work from home.

― may the force leave us alone (zchyrs), Friday, March 13, 2020 3:04 PM (seventeen minutes ago)

hi, are you me? because this is also me lately... I'm really looking forward to resuming my practice of tai chi and meditation once there is nothing else to do.

this would probably the best about using sound judgement with pets based upon what they know.

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/03/quarantine-cat-disinfect-dog-latest-advice-about-coronavirus-and-your-pets

besides going to work i barely leave the house or have interactions with other people anyway but just idly toted up how much of my home time is usually spent watching sports and.......probably time to find a hobby or start duolingo or something

here is my grocery report: i'm off today so i decided to torture myself unnecessarily. i have enough food in my house to survive for a while but i just got salt fat acid heat and i want to make a bunch of the recipes this weekend and next week. i didn't realize it was quite this bad but things just accelerated yesterday. i want ground lamb and a whole chicken.

store 1: i figured i would just go to wegmans first thing in the morning and assumed they would have restocked overnight. i was very wrong. there was almost no meat. i got 2 packages of chicken/turkey sausage because it was the only thing left. i wasn't expecting ground lamb to be something people buy in emergencies but people apparently wanted everything last night. there were full stocks of pretty random produce. i was able to get a good cabbage, cilantro and parsley, a bag of apples, and limes. there were no jalapeños and all the big bags of onions were gone. the small bags were there. there was no yogurt (there was some yogurt but i wanted the 2 pack of plain nonfat greek yogurt) but adequate milk and eggs. i got a gallon of milk to make my own yogurt. i got an extra 18 eggs for the future.

store 1.1: i wanted to try costco so i could get coffee and test the yogurt supply but it was too early and they weren't open yet.

store 2: whole foods is on the way home from wegmans. google indicated "more busy than usual" or whatever. it was kind of bad and weird. greek yogurt is obv more expensive there but i got 2 qts of store brand plus a fage for recipes. plus coffee. few remaining jalapeños were very sad-looking.

store 3: indian/halal store. incredible success! only two other customers in the store, normal for that store. fully stocked of every imaginable legume and rice. i got 2 big bags of chick peas, a bag of lentils, and 4 lbs of basmati. i have never bought meat there but i got 2 lbs of ground lamb and a small very fresh-looking whole chicken from the butcher. plus fresh green chiles and more cilantro.

The World Health Organization has announced that dogs cannot contract Covid-19. Dogs previously held in quarantine can now be released. To be clear, WHO let the dogs out.

— Liam Hackett (@DiageoLiam) March 12, 2020

Just got back from a store (we had to get a few things, regardless; I've got two tiny girls, but I feel for parents of multiple hungry boys), and things weren't that bad. Plenty of everything, people working, restocking, and so on. A few people clearly stocking up on a few things, and by that I mean a few very select things. I passed one guy with a cart full of water, pasta and giant cans of Ragu. I mean, if that's your favorite food ...

Our cat has responded to the crisis by going to sleep for the day.

Hope the dogs do a better job of running the world than we did.

Per that article, who the fuck is testing their pet for Covid, and why would you do that? Like, of all the vectors, why would you waste the time on that unless you're, like, Barbra Streisand.

Pro tip for others in Williamsburg or bushwick etc
Go to the supermarkets in Spanish neighborhoods
The Associated which caters more Spanish is exactly one block further from me than the key food which caters yuppie and they have plentiful toilet paper, plentiful everything except bottled water and disinfectant

You know, one of those "I was feeling a bit down, running a low fever, I assume I caught it from the dog" situations that we hear about every year.

i haven't told my cat yet what's going on out there

In a year everyone is going to be overweight and nursing newborns. And Hostess is going to buy Amazon.

If we don't tell our pets the truth, who will?

oh yeah also 90% of the frozen section was bare. you could still get a big bag of frozen chicken nuggets.

【パンツをマスクにしました】
Turned briefs into masks#lifehack pic.twitter.com/SJmMdzy5aJ

— ウエスP(Wes-P／Mr Uekusa) BGT2018&AGT2018 (@uespiiiiii) March 2, 2020

I am just confused now because that joke tweet links to something from WHO that doesn't even mention dogs??? The WHO thing I saw was just that it was unlikely a dog could pass it to a human. but you guys all have the internet you can see the recent mainstream articles about the dog still under quarantine.

Is Food Bazaar in wburg near the JMZ.

Just to be safe, I would not eat your dog.

ugh, that should've said go to the Food Bazaar.

my dog is dead. I probably would not eat him either. although I did use to nibble on his ears.

first Bolsonaro, now the dog. RIP

can't log into Ocado to edit an order, everything is ruined!

Just because these anecdotes are useful and full of practical information, my wife heard an interview with a 37-year old Seattle woman with Covid. She said she apparently caught it at a house party where several others caught it. All had similar stories: after a couple of days they started to feel wiped out and came down with a fever, which soon spiked to maybe 103 and stayed up there. In her case, at least, she said she never got any other symptoms, no cough or anything, just felt bad and had a fever. So a PSA that yeah, fever and fatigue/feel bad seem like the most common symptoms, at least for young or healthier people, followed by a dry cough, though apparently not always the latter. Fortunately (for potential impact) and unfortunately (for diagnosis) for a lot of folks, fever and fatigue are both pretty mild symptoms but also pretty common among all illnesses.

The woman interviewed, by the way, said her mom broke down in tears when she told her. Her own reaction to that was "hey, mom's gonna mom."

i think it was this woman.

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/12/health/coronavirus-survivor-elizabeth-schneider/index.html

Yeah, I think so!

Just saw an ambulance pull up and double-park on my street. My heart sank, and then I saw that the EMTs were just stopping to pick up donuts

Did they have their flashing lights and siren on? Because if so, I understand.

xpost These are the exact stories that I find helpful. Not the worst case scenarios, which we should all be aware of even if not necessarily personally anticipating, but the most common scenarios for many people, those not at risk. Because it helps them/us ( those generally not in a high risk group) get a better bead on whether we ourselves may be ill or should self-isolate even if we don't need to go to the hospital.

New data from @CopernicusEU #Sentinel5P reveal decline of air pollution, specifically NO2 emissions, over Italy. This reduction is particularly visible in northern Italy which coincides with its nationwide lockdown to prevent spread of the #coronavirus 👉https://t.co/4BQX4vD6P3 pic.twitter.com/7SDN8XB2vH

— ESA (@esa) March 13, 2020

i have no idea what is true here, all i saw is some meme going around. gist was 'WHO let the dogs out'

― ooga booga-ing for the bourgeoisie (voodoo chili)

woof.

xpost My wife mentioned there was a apparently big reduction of pollution in China, too. Silver linings ...

xpost These are the exact stories that I find helpful. Not the worst case scenarios, which we should all be aware of even if not necessarily personally anticipating, but the most common scenarios for many people, those not at risk. Because it helps them/us ( those generally not in a high risk group) get a better bead on whether we ourselves may be ill or should self-isolate even if we don't need to go to the hospital.

― Josh in Chicago

it's a good story but who decided to use the word "survivor" in the url?

xps they didn't but I'm sleep-deprived rn and not really thinking about obvious stuff

I'm sitting here and suddenly realizing, omg, all of my muscles ache, holy shit, it's the cov, oh no wait, that would be because I made like a prepper's pack mule last night and schlepped 50 lbs. of food halfway across the city.

My gf's school is now closed effective Monday and through at least the rest of the month. Whereas I and my coworkers have literally heard not one single solitary peep from anyone in management today about anything. It sure feels like an abdication of responsibility to me, like they're deciding not to decide. If they need me to decide for them, I'm happy to oblige.

New data from @CopernicusEU #Sentinel5P reveal decline of air pollution, specifically NO2 emissions, over Italy. This reduction is particularly visible in northern Italy which coincides with its nationwide lockdown to prevent spread of the #coronavirus 👉https://t.co/4BQX4vD6P3 pic.twitter.com/7SDN8XB2vH
— ESA (@esa) March 13, 2020

― mark s, Friday, March 13, 2020 11:31 AM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

OMG, what if the cov is nature's way of solving global warming, what a wonderful world

gaia sez HALLO