KIP covid thread

fuckin hell really am not spending much money AT ALL

oh the airbnb thing, that could get interesting

slack is good

better at KIP than ye lot anyways, ill tell the world

zoom beers and online poker are an acceptable substitute for pints for the time being

.....nothing, lads?

I did my positivity bit on the other thread, you missed it.

But, basically, I'm thriving... pretty much.

glad to hear it!

Tell you what I did do today, went through files of papers and correspondence and statements and whatnot going back years and binned a large percentage of it - should have done it long ago.

... never had the time before!

god yes, adding to my to-do list

ive cleared up loads of hard-drive space and set up a network share

aim to tackle twenty years of digital photos next

seven gigs of graphic novels on my tablet

I was really sick but have recovered, I am so thankful for that. I haven’t ventured out of my house much yet, but I’ve been enjoying playing the piano, watching films and cooking.

good to hear recovery going well

ive been picking up the guitar a but more, im putting that in as a positive and if she wants to create a login to quibble it's a free country

:)

Theme song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4LtcagNWGk

KIP? Knowledge is Power?

I assume it’s’ ‘keeping it positive’

I’m also enjoying the peace in my neighborhood. I live on a major tourist street and there has been none of the usual constant foot traffic. I’ve been really noticing the birdsong in the mornings and evenings

all the clothes i wasn't confident enough to wear in public, i have had the chance to wear them!

Gf was making shit money pre-COVID,wasn't getting good shifts and the restaurant was quiet so tips were way down. So her getting the CERB (covid benefit from Canadian government) after getting laid off hasnt actually resulted in a huge change in our income. We usually have very different work patterns and dont get to spend as much time together as we'd like, so we are enjoying having lots of time together as I work from home and she isnt working.covid hasnt even hit that badly here in any case.extremely lucky.

xp I can relate to that rushomancy, I cleaned out my closet two days ago, I am letting go of a lot of stuff but have really been enjoying wearing some of it

xp I do envy a little all of you who have shelter in place partners

Can't play basketball (tho I did at least discover a single janky public hoop 15 minutes from me that's still open) so been hiking more. Don't feel like driving 20 miles each way to Sedona trails every day so been searching out ones closer to me. Found quite a few! On one now that winds up these foothills. High enough vantage point to see snowy peaks in the distance, in addition to the red rocks which are even redder due to the settings sun.

• not having to talk to strangers
• no small talk
• no having to look people in the eye when talking to them
• no hugs from strangers
• no handshaking (seriously, why the hell do people grip the palm of someone they’ve only just met?)
• can cross the street to avoid people without feeling rude
• all the hot people are training in the local parks since all the gyms closed

“all the hot people are training in the local parks since all the gyms closed”

didn’t know this

Feeling a little sick today, hoping it’s just the usual sinus infection/head cold that I get every few months and I am overdue for. Been enjoying the time with my family, and doing my best to make sure we stay safe and fed. Living in Florida now means lots of outside time and exercise which has been great. Work has been amazing during this time- just so proactive and supportive and caring. Couldn’t ask for a better company to work for, in the best of times as well as in times like these.

I haven't had hair long enough to go to a barbers for, oh, 15 years... acually more than 15... so, though I haven't quite got enough yet to run fingers through and definitely not enough on top to ruffle, it's a pleasant experience. Also the colours, mostly silver bordering on white with some stubborn dark bits.

spending more time at home has meant more attention to items of domestic comfort and organisation
15 hours a week commute back in my pocket
not spending *anything*
dreams seem weirdly vivid
getting Columbo villain length hair
paying more attention to cooking than i have normally had time for with consequently more enjoyable meals
more time for reading
morning coffee, lunch and post-work beer in the back yard in the sun
no work bantz
become more organised with work
starting at nine and finishing at five (generally anyway, have also found it's easy for work to bleed over if you've got a lot on, and having to do stuff with Australia and the states can mean early morning and evening calls)
peaceful neighbourhood, yes
no 4:30am Hong Kong flight into Heathrow

^ that last is not my commute, only the gentle sounds of jet engines over my house at that time each morning.

It looks like we are at the first peak here, so we will see the number of new cases and deaths drop for a little while

Cycling is great at the moment. Weather is perfect and roads are more or less free of traffic.

About the peaceful neighbourhood thing, when I woke up this morning I realized the reason it's so quiet is I'm not hearing any sirens anymore - police or ambulance but, in my case, it's predominantly ambulance. Quiet, apart from the builders next door, of course.

Have been running between 5 and 10k three times a week having been a 3k at most previously.
Been exploring my locality which is kind of edgelandy central belt scotland so farms and woodland and quite pleasant in a way.
Yep, spending nothing.
Cooking lots of good meals aye.
Also work had been driving me up the wall and I'd been desperate for time away from it, had been *this* close to walking out a couple of times (work in a v busy and understaffed restaurant) so this deadly pandemic couldn't have come at a better time for me

Air quality in London is so much better right now.

General good litmus test of the strength of a relationship/marriage is if you can spend months locked up together in stressful circumstances and still get on well and it's comfortably passing that.

Also yeah cooking, not spending money, getting enough sleep on the regular. Booze consumption down as well and only drinking really good stuff.

More or less total control over how much of my physical self to show to the outside world, and even when I do briefly go out my face is hidden behind mask & shades

*allows self to fall into ever more shocking states of dragglement* THIS TOO IS A MIXED BLESSING

Seeing a lot more of my friends back home - scheduling Jackbox game nights and groupwatchs of that Toei youtube channel.

finally tackling the jungle that is my back garden. a few hours every other day and hey presto the difference has been amazing. still some left to do mind you.

golf course shut but i found a patch of grass about the size of half a football pitch hidden behind some trees on the outskirts so have been practicing my pitching/chipping for a couple of hours a day so when the courses reopen hopefully my chipping yips will be a thing of the past.

oh and back up to being able to do 100 + keepie uppies which i haven't done since i was in my twenties

have explored every nook and cranny within 2km, including several good possibilities for buying if economy does crash

legit thought i had opened the animal crossing thread for a second

can’t read the thread title without thinking “kid n play”

so that’s a positive!

eke every drop of it in the circumstances imo

spending more time talking to family members i love

i'm getting more money than i ever have from a job

that being said i somehow got a job with the ut4h st4te 4rchives with a tentative start date of june 1, so when i run out of unemployment i'll be in a pretty cush position, credit cards paid down, etc.

today i'm going to the desert for two days to go running and buy weed

i'm "staying home and staying safe" with a hottie i love

and this isn't really covid related but i bought a really sick dark dnb release (homemade weapons, sorry ilm content) and rakka by that finnish guy to listen to out in the desert plus lots of stoner metal

It's kind of a positive that our situation isn't changing much - husband works from home most days anyway, and is now saving ££ on commute to London. I'm not working while my kids are little but was planning to start childcare for the youngest later this year. I'm glad the 5yo has had enough school to learn the very basics and can continue that at home without missing too much essential stuff, although he's missing it badly. Live on a main road which now has way less traffic, although is now 90% heavy trucks.

join us

although i know of many people who have got covid while double-vaxxed none of them had a serious case of it. 2 weeks after my second dose i feel an absolute lack of concern about getting COVID. couldn't care less about it. i wasn't overly concerned before, but now it's completely out of my mind. feels liberating. the great majority of new cases - over 2/3s - are among the unvaxxed, meaning the numbers of infections among the partially and fully vaccinated are quite low.

I've...almost reached that point. I haven't stopped masking -- I've been masked for three hours at this library -- and I'll avoid crowded indoor settings, but if "mild COVID" is "akin to the flu or a bad cold" I can make the meek adjustment.

And that's bad "mild" Covid. Most people will have little to no symptoms at all.

out of caution w/ my folks I bought a few emergency Binax COVID tests so I could periodically test myself (or them), will replenish as needed (not cheap but how many times would you test someone a week, lol).

I actually ordered a box, then cancelled my order. It took one of my kids to talk me down. I said, my nose is a little snuffy, maybe I have Covid, do you think I should get tested? She asked me, did you come into contact with anyone positive for Covid? Not that I know of. Is a slightly snuffy nose your only symptom? Yes. Then don't worry about it. And if you are worried about it, wear a mask. And if it gets worse or doesn't go away, *then* get tested.

Nose was no longer snuffy by the end of the day.

that's really the damn problem for anybody with chronic anything (allergies especially). you know it's probably just that but....some of the symptoms are soooooo similar that you feel irresponsible not checking and then wonder if you should or shouldn't check.

really wish COVID had like a signature symptom (besides the loss of taste and smell, which doesn't happen in every case anyway) like THERE WILL BE A HUGE WART ON YOUR FOREHEAD so it would be unmistakable.

Vaccinated people still have a risk of transmitting it, and every vaccinated person who catches it helps make the variants smarter. Early testing suggests the vaccines may be only 50% effective against Lambda.

that is not kip imho

This should be pretty much the height of #flu season in the southern hemisphere. Yet very little of it is being detected, @WHO reports.
Flu has been at historically low levels during the #Covid pandemic. It will return. But when? https://t.co/85xzBwlTVr pic.twitter.com/7Fig8ZjmcN

— Helen Branswell (@HelenBranswell) August 5, 2021

that is not kip imho

― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 5 August 2021 15:12 (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

Look,

https://mediad.publicbroadcasting.net/p/wlpr/files/styles/x_large/public/201912/1980s_--_mtv-era_kip_winger.jpg

fp'd sic. go to the other thread were double-vaxx people who don't leave their house are testing themselves twice a day

Early testing on Lambda efficiency is insufficient, no study has been peer-reviewed, and we should quit hyperfocusing on fucking lambda before we've managed to shed Delta. There are already 1000 cases of Lambda in the US, but people did the same thing when Beta was emerging and showing much more vaccine evasion and it hit the US and never generated many cases because it wasn't anywhere near as infectious as Alpha or Delta.

Also recent Singapore studies show vaccinated people who get infected are infectious for a shorter time frame as the body fights infection and a UK paper preprint yesterday showed that vaccinated people had lower viral load, contrary to the previous studies. Mask up indoors, yes, avoid crowds etc but jfc keep the proselytizing out of the kip thread.

citation on last part: https://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthart/2021/08/04/fully-vaccinated-half-as-likely-to-catch-delta-covid-variant-and-less-likely-to-infect-others-study-finds/

sic, take it to the other thread, where we can argue against your croaking of doom too.

When my mother was up for the football she just casually dropped that the couple who occupy the pointy thing across the road from her are vehement anti-vaxxers, I always hated that boy, he complained about the volume of my music when I lived down there, said we could find a "compromise" which apparently involved me wearing headphones and him carrying on being a dick, also I'm pretty sure it was him reported me for an ASBO, for writing "four letter words" visible from the street, yeah I wrote DOOM on my mother's wall, four letters and I stand by each one. But now he's actively trying to murder my mother and all the unvaccinated children who walk past his yard twice a day on the way to school, and also MY SISTER'S NEWBORN was visiting this weekend, I saw him stood in the yard when I was down there today but I hadn't been informed of his views at that point so I didn't know I should start shit. Apparently though he's "done his own research" and "it's his choice", well I done my research, it says he's a cunt and my choice is to walk down the road on tuesday and murder him with a clawhammer.
(I'm aware this is the KIP thread but I couldn't find the appropriate one and anyrate I shall be K this village P by ridding it of this scum. Tuesday tho, I got plans tomorrow).

Lol always good to be reminded that my life could be worse, I could have neighbors like that. So now that I found what seems to be the cheapest AirBnb in Atlanta to stay in for the time being, I’ve discovered that the main denizen to be encountered here is similarly infected with the brain worms. He seems just reasonable enough tho, so that I find myself wondering if there’s ANY way to engage in reasonable dialogue with this fruit cake but of course I’m just deceiving myself. Might as well go shout at Facebook.

That wasn’t very positive either was it. I’m not in South Carolina any more! Yay.

There are now not one but TWO rapid COVID testing sites within walking distance from my house. One of which I used in the past that at the time, did not work with insurance and required you to file a claim, but now DOES take it

Not that I need one right now but good to have options.

Covid: Vaccines '90% effective' at preventing Delta variant deaths

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-58987835

i have to say i find that article really confusing. you could read it as saying that 10% of breakthrough cases end in death and i don’t think that’s what it’s saying but it’s impossible to tell from the article.

xpost lol, that almost reads like a quote *from* Covid. "Don't worry, everyone, the vaccine will *totally* protect you from Delta, just lower your mask a little and come a little closer, I won't bite ... "

Got to be 10% of the rate of unvaxxed, right?

"No deaths have been recorded in those who have been double-vaccinated with the Moderna vaccine in Scotland, according to the data. Researchers said it is therefore not possible to estimate this particular vaccine's effectiveness in preventing Covid-related deaths."

they cant estimate its effectiveness at preventing death until they rack up some deaths? idgi

divide by zero error in spreadsheet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXGBuS7axCI

Got my booster this lunchtime (Moderna). Songs playing in the waiting room: 'Merry Christmas Everyone' by Shakin' Stevens, and 'Dancing In The Moonlight' by Toploader.

New job confirmed WFH three days

That's great!

Every time I see this thread I think it's a reference to this.
https://i.makeagif.com/media/6-11-2016/AdngMb.gif

Not bloody wrong all the same!

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thsi many waves

here is my Christmas present for all of you pic.twitter.com/3QxJfd2Gog

— your friend (@debdrens) December 24, 2021

Went into whole foods yesterday and was grabbing some chips adjacent to the only other person in the store who was masked. Asked if if she ever felt like the only one doing it. She said, "on the daily!" and said she still knows people getting COVID but she had yet to get it. I said "same all around" and we told each other to stay safe. It's a small deal and no judgement to those who threw out their masks and breathe the free air but it can be tough feeling like the only one wearing one of these facehuggers indoors while almost everyone has relaxed. So it's good to KIP with others on the same wavelength.

Got COVID just over a week ago, got better pretty fast, was sad to realize my sense of smell is gone

Today tho my boyfriend walked by. Smelled a waft of something faint. “Are you wearing Beyond Paradise?” Yes he was. Getting better already, keeping it positive

Just posted in the rona thread but I also am getting over an extremely mild case - back to myself (such as it is) in about 10 hours.

Still too stuffy to tell if I can still smell things.