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

anyone gone to the pub yet? feels a bit mad tbh

probably bcz it is mad?

"You have a child", said a random woman in town today, "would you like a leaflet about the vaccine and the blundemic?" I surmised that this might not be a reliable source of information and said "absolutely not". "Good luck" she said.

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blundemic???

oh wait did she say "plandemic"?

Probably plandemic. Blundemic is pretty good though.

As far as vaccine names goes, I think Russia win this; 'Sputnik' remains a great word.

Blundemic more apt yeah

pretty sure it was blundemic, maybe I should have taken a leaflet! and a free book from another guy telling us all about the new world order.

Unbelievably, there are no google results for 'blundemic'

Almost a bit too unbelievable

#googledemic

Feels weird now that we've all been told we can now go maskless everywhere cept crowded stores/public transport. Social shaming is suprisingly powerful in this country and everyone got onboard with masks/staying home real fast - people are still waering them a lot!

Now theyre allowing overseas flights to Melbourne again so I hope it doesnt go pear shaped. 2 months in severe lockdown has given me agoraphobia and Ive become so isolated and unfit.

I will miss occasionally shouting at the dicknoses and the maskless.

This weekend I saw my first bunnings sausage sizzle since February, which is surely a sign that everyone thinks everything is back to normal and will be back in lockdown well before we get a sniff of the vaccine.

https://www.theregister.com/2020/12/07/on_the_uk_governments_covid19related/

"IT workers join elite sports stars, fat cat biz execs, celebs and posties for special treatment under England's COVID-19 travel isolation rules"

woot!

well done, headline writer

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Does the entire Register aesthetic strike you as deeply fucking irritating?

i have always liked their headlines

Looking forward to my post-vaccine transformation into a cyborg for socialism!

I just got back from a run of the mill supermarket. Most people were wearing masks, but - and I know correlation is not causation - literally everyone I saw wearing a mask improperly was in a high risk group, or some combination high risk groups.

the olds, or the sicks?

Elderly, obese, or African-American. Or two or three of those categories. I just don't get it. If you know to wear a mask, how can you still not know how to wear it properly? Especially if you are in a higher risk group.

My uncle's funeral service was webcast on Saturday. I mostly held it together until the photo montage, at which point I wept a little when I saw pictures of him together with my mom.

So sorry, Dan.

JiC, a lot of older people don't have masks that fit them properly, and surprise surprise, the messaging about masks in my majority minority city is not being broadcast to the poorer, Blacker neighborhoods.

If there was any sort of coordinated, national effort to get people to wear masks and wear them properly, we wouldn't be having these problems.

It would be nice if the uncoordinated national effort to spread disinformation, fear, uncertainty and doubt was tamped down to a quiet murmur, too.

Sorry again, Dan.

This disease is terrible and how it is forcing us to grieve and attempt to find or offer comfort via screens just adds to the toll it takes.

I came here to moan about taking my third covid swab in three days but maybe a wee bit of perspective...

My father in law has needed of heart valve surgery for the last year, but it was delayed due to other health issues and then covid in March. His health deteriorated further and he just went to the ER because of how bad he was feeling and it ends up what he thought was a hernia is likely a sarcoma the size of a grapefruit. We're three hours away and my wife couldn't get in the hospital to see him anyway and he is too weak from the heart/other health issues to have chemo/surgery so things aren't looking good. So he's probably going to die soon, alone, and my wife won't be able to see him or give him a hug and it won't be listed as covid, but fuck this shit.

How awful, I'm so sorry.

Fuck, PBKR :(. I'm so sorry - nobody deserves to go through that

PBKR and DJP, hugs.

Jfc. So sorry PBKR.

My mom is still in hospital with what they say is pneumonia, and she seems to be responding well to antibiotics. They say she's getting out tomorrow...my fingers are crossed because the longer she stays in....

I know that anxiety, ttitt. COVID has a lot of ways to get at you, including how it fucked up PBKR's father-in-law.

Major hugs to DJP and PBKR.

Seconded

my condolences, DJP... and sympathy for PBKR and everyone else

<3 DJP & PBKR

i'm sorry this is happening, for you both. <3

Thanks everyone for the well wishes.

Covid is complicating things absolutely; just not being able to see him and having to get information over the phone are difficulties. Btw, this is in Eastern PA and we have been hearing that the hospital is basically at capacity (I wonder why). He spent 36 hours in the ER partially because they had no place for him.

Thanks, everyone

on a related note, people are evil and stupid: https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/08/us/los-angeles-super-spreader-party-arrests/index.html

the most evil and stupid person in that article is the LA county sherrif btw, who is refusing to enforce the county and state's public health measures, while calling press conferences about "public safety" in non-white parts of the county.

I'm now on 4 covid tests in 4 days

hopefully I'm doing my bit to keep overall test positivity levels low enough to get the pubs open for Christmas or something

onimo, I'm sorry you're still stuck in COVID limbo. Any progress on getting the scans done so you can get out of there?

By “in that article” do you mean actually quoted, caek? because actually sex trafficking a minor is pretty evil if true. xp

I am pretty skeptical about reports of “sex trafficking” coming out of the la sherrifs department at the exact moment there is finally a push to cut their budget and impeach the sheriff. And honestly there’s a pretty long list of terrible crimes that are less evil than the routine policing work of the most murderous police force in the nation. But sure, if true.

Basically they are killers, and they also lie about specific crimes *all the time* https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-08-30/police-public-relations

sex trafficking is a real thing but it becomes a right-wing bogeyman at convenient moments - which includes them actually murkying the waters on what trafficking is (as opposed to being kidnapped out of a Target from the Xbox aisle)

Sorry this is a derail. My sympathies to everyone posting their own news on this thread.

This happened in New Orleans: https://www.nola.com/gambit/news/the_latest/article_7441a6d4-33f4-11eb-9fc2-c393a2fe67c3.html

Are we allowed to note that this was a really fucking stupid idea or no?

onimo, I'm sorry you're still stuck in COVID limbo. Any progress on getting the scans done so you can get out of there?

I'm past scans etc and heading for surgery in the morning. Repeated covid tests are due to repeated equipment delays.

Details on the Fuck Cancer thread ---

fuck cancer

xp let he who has not had a key party during a global pandemic throw the first etc

key?