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

I know who I'm phoning next time my boiler is fucked!

Ice T [blue tick mark] actually

Ice T 2020,My observation: Kids pulled outta schools, People out of their jobs, Everyone doesn't have money or enough to go for long.. Stress is at an all time high.. 'Pressure Busts Pipes' Shit could get very hectic.... Just sayin., 16 March [Twitter]. Available at

My observation: Kids pulled outta schools, People out of their jobs, Everyone doesn’t have money or enough to go for long.. Stress is at an all time high.. ‘Pressure Busts Pipes’ Shit could get very hectic…. Just sayin.

— ICE T (@FINALLEVEL) March 16, 2020

Well whaddya know

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I dooon't smoooke da reefa

My kid's school officially closed until April 3 now. Hard to imagine that won't get extended. My wife still apparently going into her retail cashiering job every day though.

Ontario schools are scheduled to reopen April 6. Simply not going to happen--they're not going to reopen when the caseload is much, much higher than when they closed them. Realistically, as you get closer to June, I can't see where the whole year isn't written off. (And the ramifications of that, I don't know.)

I'm struggling to fight off a depression due to this, I believe. Peace to you all.

It'll be at least 4 weeks for schools at the minimum. It'll take 2 weeks from now before the current quarantining even has an registered impact. After 2 weeks of mounting deaths, as clemenza said, they won't be ready to reopen. Maybe if it's under control after an additional 2 weeks they'll look into reopening some schools. I think they're just telling most of us 2 weeks because a month (and probably longer) would freak people out even more. We have to settle into our new routines.

ain't gonna be any school until September, if then

almost everywhere i regularly visit in the past eight months is closed

You may be right - or maybe there will be makeup over the summer? Israel is doing that. xp

Made a small grocery run on my way to work; all the rice was gone except for jasmine, which was fully stocked (???)

xp maybe yeah

I just ordered 3x Diary of Anne Frank for some home-schooling w/ my two girls

so is it just me or has there not been much reporting on people who have had this and lived? I'd think there'd be a lot of people saying "here's what this is like' to assuage some fears. I've seen only a few "it was like a very bad flu" but not as much as I'd like. And once you get this, do they know if you're immune to it?

Only info I've seen about acquired immunity is cautious and inconclusive, other than antibodies are detectable after the detectable virus has disappeared. Mostly they are guessing, based on other coronavirus variants from the past. Could be months or it could be years.

Re what it’s like, there was this testimony

Uh https://metro.co.uk/2020/03/16/coronavirus-survivor-becomes-good-morning-britain-hero-phone-keeps-ringing-dog-interrupts-interview-12403334/

so we had to cancel the weekly pub quiz i run due to the lockdown, so i... decided to do it online for ppl so they have something to do with their monday night? and the response has been very big so far, far bigger than i imagined, so i may have the most ppl playing ever and i am so worried about how i am gonna run it and mark it oh god lol what have i done

ok, I'm on a recorded Zoom meeting and fwiw the host had to start recording and it gave a "This is recorded, continue or leave now?" prompt in case anyone is wondering

Look the thread title does say mostly

late-stage capitalism put under even the slightest stress looks exactly what capitalists claim socialism looks like https://t.co/Hc9pGPfdhg

— agrabah strike bomber (@ChairmanSolo) March 12, 2020

And once you get this, do they know if you're immune to it?
― akm, Monday, March 16, 2020 5:54 PM (seventeen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

case in japan today of someone getting it for a second time

Those reports have been so few and far between that while there is no way to know 100% for sure just yet, they seem probably as or more likely to be testing or detection errors.

We are just assuming school's out for the rest of the year by the way.

my friend got told today she might be laid off due to this. she just wrecked her car and had to divert a bunch of next month's rent to its deposit.

her boyfriend is out of steady work. they are freaking out. i loaned them next month's rent just so they could have a week or two without that looming over their heads. granted, I can't do that again....

but this elephant in the room has to be addressed. unless we're all ready for 40% of the country or more to be homeless.

I'm struggling to fight off a depression due to this, I believe. Peace to you all.

― justice 4 CCR (Sparkle Motion), Monday, March 16, 2020 1:38 PM (twenty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

same except it's been well past "struggling" for a while now

Christ, Neanderthal, that's horrible.

I can only hope that this will help more people realize that the system just isn't working for them and that something's got to give.

i might get wfh access weds sometime

ill have to set out my productivity every day

pity they didnt ask me today i couldve written "100%: setting out a case for me and this other fella to work from home in a fucking pandemic"

This morning I tested positive for Covid 19. I feel ok, I have no symptoms so far but have been isolated since I found out about my possible exposure to the virus. Stay home people and be pragmatic. I will keep you updated on how I’m doing 👊🏾👊🏾 No panic. pic.twitter.com/Lg7HVMZglZ

— Idris Elba (@idriselba) March 16, 2020

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/16/us/nj-coronavirus-update/index.html

(CNN)New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy issued a curfew Monday that restricts travel from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. to fight the spread of coronavirus.
"All non-essential and non-emergency travel in Jersey is strongly discouraged beginning tonight at 8 p.m. until 5 a.m. each day," Murphy said. "This will remain in effect for the foreseeable future. We want everybody to be home, not out."
In doing so New Jersey becomes the first US state to take such a step. On Sunday, the US territory of Puerto Rico instituted a 9 p.m. curfew.
As of Monday morning, New Jersey had 98 confirmed cases of coronavirus and two deaths.

I would assume NYC starts a similar curfew before the end of the week.

"Shelter in Place" order issued in SF (and 6 other Bay Area counties) for next 3 weeks

Situation in San Antonio (where I live):

1. Fiesta San Antonio is postponed from its usual dates in April to November, which is highly unusual in that almost nothing gets in the way of Fiesta, not even the one mass shooting event at the Battle of Flowers parade in 1979.
2. City facilities are all closed for this week, including our public library system.
3. The one local supermarket chain (HEB) has cut its operating hours down to 8:00 AM to 8:00 PM for all its stores, including ones such as my neighborhood store which are typically open 24 hours a day. That's so that the stockers have more time to restock items and they can get more people working when they're open. The last time I was able to drop by the neighborhood location before work was Friday, when it was a complete mad house and half the shelves were completely barren.
4. The local Catholic archdiocese has suspended Sunday Masses until the end of the month, which is a big thing considering how many Catholics live here. A lot of the larger non-Catholic churches have also announced a suspension of Sunday church services.
5. The largest local electricity/natural gas provider (CPS Energy) announced an amnesty put in place to ensure that no one has their services cut during this period. This is a genuinely good thing and I wish more local/area utility providers would follow their lead.
6. The city mayor and state's governor are going to hold a press conference at 2:30 PM local time (so in about 25 minutes) to update us on the situation and any other important information we need to know. I typically hate Gov. Greg Abbott's guts but he's doing a damn better job of handling the situation than the shit-for-brains pseudo-"president" he sucks up to on the regular, and he's been standing tall with our Democratic mayor (Ron Nirenberg) on this issue at least.
7. More personally, the mood at work is almost of paranoia, with antibacterial wipes being distributed to clean our work surfaces on an almost daily basis, more people washing their hands thoroughly, the people who work in cubicles being spread out to increase the distance between them, all meetings have been cancelled, etc. There's a feeling of general unease.

One thing I keep in mind is that a COVID-19 cough is a dry one and that the virus doesn't present with sneezing. That keeps me from going off the deep end any time I hear someone sneeze or cough, as is my natural inclination as someone with severe and almost congenital anxiety issues.

BTW, since I have asthma I feel like it would be at least a little logical to be slightly paranoid, since I'm considered one of the "vulnerable".

not too sure that a curfew is a great idea? if i have to go out, i'd rather do it at odd hours rather than compressing everyone into the same timeframe

I was in my local cheap chain grocery store, which is a depressing place at the best of times, and there was no TP, eggs, bread, next to no rice, pasta, beans, lentils etc. and everyone was just in a foul mood and being shitty.

and we've only just begun!

I keep thinking about the elderly lady in front of me at the grocery store last Friday who had a cart that was 90% SnackWell cookies and a large bottle of vodka

priorities!

I'm watching Trump, and initially he looked properly mortified and ghostly, but now he's talking, and Sanders summed it up perfectly last night with his first line: "The first thing we have to do, whether or not I am president, is to shut this president up right now." When Trump just related a conversation he'd (supposedly) had with his son (presumably the 10-year-old)--"How bad is this?" "It's bad, it's bad"--I honestly wasn't sure which part came from Trump and which part came from the son.

Sorry--mixed up threads, thought I was on the politics thread.

looool

it's funny, regardless

my boss let me know that we are aiming on wfh. we're just scrambling to move in-class courses to online right now but once that's been dealt with wfh issues will be ironed out. going to be very strange to do my job in my apartment but I'm very glad. time to hunker down for a few months

my mum's eccentric thespian cousin who lives in a bothy in the middle of nowhere in the Scottish highlands with no running water or electricity looking p otm rn

I'm driving out of NYC tomorrow morning for the foreseeable. My bf thinks he's coming back next week for work but that'll depend on the extent of quarantine/shelter in/curfews/etc. Shit is gonna get mad real without income though--maybe some of those rich ppl who fled to their country houses will need refinishing?

xp och aye

bothy

Cool word I'd never encountered before. Wouldn't mind languishing in a bothy myself right now.

My uncle tested positive. He's in his 50s and generally very healthy but still worried. We're also all very concerned because he visited my 90yo grandmother last Monday.

bothy
Cool word I'd never encountered before. Wouldn't mind languishing in a bothy myself right now.

― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Monday, March 16, 2020 12:43 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

bothy ballads are interesting: the traditional songs made up and sang by the labouring men at night in the bothies. as it was just of rustic Scottish lads a lot of the songs are very puerile

not too sure that a curfew is a great idea? if i have to go out, i'd rather do it at odd hours rather than compressing everyone into the same timeframe

― mookieproof, Monday, March 16, 2020 3:16 PM (thirty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

this was my thought

could always go out at exactly 5 a.m. :/

godspeed io

of course the food stores won't be open at 5