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

i am a person with teens who is able to do a home TA job by circumstance. but based upon the difficulty i had with last spring's 8th grade level job and what i see now, i truly don't know how many parents are coping. i am hopeful that many are compensating, but the difficulty and cost to the kids is so high. stay strong, be supportive as you are able, and keep demanding better is all i have to recommend, but i will.

My teacher friend has suspended giving his kids homework because he feels they're in front of a computer screen too long already

I think a decision is being made as to whether there will be a local lockdown tomorrow at a meeting today.
I thought it was odd that I didn't seem to be seeing the social distancing notices taht had been up around town for the last few months. Used to be some freestanding signs made of wood that had been stuck up in the corners of the field sin the park around the corner fro where I live. I'm only just seeing they aren't there any more. I thought I would have noticed them being gone before but definitely not seeing them now.
& couldn't see equivalents anywhere across town as i went in by bus for the first time in a few weeks. Been able to get by with visits to local supermarkets etc since feeling fluey a couple of weeks ago. I think it probably is a flu or similar since i tend to get them or heavy colds around this time of year anyway. Had the vid test to make sure and it came up negative.

Didn't see wind damage to signs though maybe it was that.
Seems like numbers of new cases are on he rise again anyway.

Missed seeing exhibitions etc in the recent arts festival cos i wasn't going to town. Also another exhibition i would have definitely got to in a different situation, didn't hear it was on. Exhibition of end of year for the local art school they're normally quite fun.

I know there is flou going around which is probably goingto help the spread.

People are being outraged locally because students have come in before the start of term to try to ensure tehy get accomodation i a town where there is a lot of competition for it and are congregating in large groups at night. Think its happening in a couple of places across town. Think they might normally be going to pubs but can't at the moment so are hanging out at the old hangout points, Spanish Arch which was where people always went to drink on the hot summer days for decades. I think in the woods behind me too.
People are on social media condemning them and saying that the army should be called in to stop them gathering. In fact there are other money making cincerns taht should be acting more responsibly and you wouldn't have the problem, University charging student fees and wanting students to physically be around. Landlords facilitating the competition over places. Not sure what teh story is on teh AirB'n'B problem that was heavily contributing to that too. If the same locations are now open for long term rent etc.

Oh well another month , I'm sure ther ewill be further developments. Time doesn't stand still even if it sometimes feels like it.

i got turned down from a test today because i wasn't in a car. this was at a pharmacy that is a 10 minute walk from my house

🤦

Things are going off in my school district, where classes are all-virtual until after Thanksgiving at least. My wife started a FB group for parents of incoming kindergartners at our school to meet some other parents. Of course people started arguing immediately about whether their kids Should have to stay at home, and more groups were started, both pro and anti return to in-person learning. People will join one group as a spy and send screenshots of discussions to the other group. One of anti-virtual groups organized a protest at the school board building to try to get the board to reverse their decision. My wife’s friend showed up to counter-protest. And even though she was the only counter protestor at the rally a local news crew covered the event and interviewed her. This angered the ‘return to school’ group and there are screen shots of local business owners threatening violence against my wife’s friend.

This is going to be a Lifetime movie in six months

my partner's (nyc charter) school has shut down the possibility of hybrid learning until end of January, which was a great relief for both of us but also means we're stuck together 24/7 for at least another four months.

so much pottery

you laugh, but it's what's keeping me sane right now!

http://i.imgur.com/hPEE3q1.png
http://i.imgur.com/uaw4H41.png
http://i.imgur.com/Jwuq7uF.png

FWIW I figured my gf and I would surely have murder-suicided each other by now but we're pretty much seven months into 24/7-ing it (since I went full-time WFH and she got laid off) and weathering it well. Witnessing the sturdiness of our relationship under duress is one of a very few positives to come out of this mess.

xp those are lovely

and i never laugh

those pottery pieces are really beautiful

really dig them, they look fantastic

cool forks!

Yeah!

Thanks folks! I recommend working with clay highly. It will help with anxiety, i have seen it over and over.

those are great

holy smokes! beautiful!

I recommend working with clay highly

(Insert Patrick Swayze gif here)

great pots

Booming pots

ha

pots vmic

xp :D

my partner's (nyc charter) school has shut down the possibility of hybrid learning until end of January, which was a great relief for both of us but also means we're stuck together 24/7 for at least another four months.

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I honestly thought the DOE would have shut down in-person schooling by now, but I'm going to have to move back to Brooklyn and quarantine my boyfriend for like 10 days bc his kids are coming to visit and they're both going to (private Catholic) hybrid schools and I'm not having it.

Neanderthal, how's your vaccine trial going?

Our son has to move back in with us for reasons. He's young, has a girlfriend and has been out with his mates over the last few weeks.
Kinda stuck in terms of keeping the rest of us safe and have to just hope he isn't infected.
I have stuff going on medically atm and if I end up infected it could prevent me getting scheduled tests and treatment (as well and potentially kill me...)

*as well as

damn onimo best wishes, that’s a tough situation

Yeah, seconded.

VMIC, but this anti-vaxxer/masker I went to high school with (they were ok then) was just boasting about going to church today with no masks and no social distancing, but lots of Bible-based theology.

I kind of hope they all die.

Boasting on Facebook, I mean. I have no further contact with them.

test came back negative

great!!

Good news!

awesome!

this is me
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/04/nyregion/nyc-covid-shutdown-zip-codes.html

http://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2020/10/04/nyc-covid-lockdown/b4d62b770d757301b2a89abec7717eb0786748d4/nyc-covid-lockdown-720.png

red is closed schools and "inessential businesses" shut down, orange is no indoor dining and "let's see"?

I dodged this bullet, did take any earlier one although I see a nearby zip code and also my sister's.

i know at first it was just a few neighborhoods that were highly infected; have yet to see if they will spread it or if the Orthodox communities will remain insulated

similar stuff with measles up in Rockland last year sadly

bars & cafés shutting down in Paris again, & my daughter's university has to cut their classes in half so they're just having half of students attend one week, the other half the next week, which seems like a weird way to do it but whatever. I work in a different region now where the rona is not so bad but that means weekly train rides between there & Paris so I might be a super spreader. but I dunno, I tested negative again last week, will test again next week again if it's offered again on campus, etc

Sorry to hear that, just make you sure that you get your "Mats ballot in before the deadline!

I did!

Euler, are you still planning on moving to Nancy? I’ve no doubt you’d feel a lot safer there.

yeah next summer prolly, for now the kids are finishing important years of school here

Makes sense. In the meantime, stay safe.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/05/nyregion/cuomo-shutdown-coronavirus.html

we're all gonna die because diblasio and cuomo refuse to agree as to who has the bigger dick.

It makes no sense - restaurants stay open, schools get closed? Why not just open or close both?

someone, somewhere in my building is hacking up a storm :))))))))

I had a crazy squirrel shrieking outside my window for quite a while this morning.