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Quarantimes 2: Quarantine Harder
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Continuing from the last thread - let us know how you're holding up in this extremely normal and very standard year of 2020. We'll do our damndest to offer solidarity.
This is a place to check in on covid news and all, but also to talk about the things you're doing to self-care and destress. So uh, how're you all doing?
This is a place to check in on covid news and all, but also to talk about the things you're doing to self-care and destress. So uh, how're you all doing?
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OH and our current car is basically unsafe to drive and the process of replacing it has been a terrible comedy of errors of carvana trying to string us along while they rush to fix a car, then a dealer having no idea how overpriced they are, then securing a car with carmax only for it to somehow be sold out from under us and maybe, MAYBE we'll really get the one we have an order on now, who knows! I just want to be able to drive and get groceries, considering that smaller walking trips are a bad idea because again, PANDEMIC. I'm going batty, I hate it, and people suck.
In only slightly "lighter" news, after they decided all lab work was essential and I kept seeing the CEO around the office for no fuckin reason with no mask (I have NEVER seen that man put a mask on) I used my little discretionary budget to get a print of the demon moloch factory from metropolis to put up at my desk, just as a pretty reminder that any company will absolutely feed you into the maw of a hungry demon to keep things going.
And if I get one more fuckin' ad for biden or trump I'm going to shit directly into my modem.
If anyone read this rant...go get yourself a glass of water, maybe stretch, you need to make healthier choices too, and you deserve to be happy.
my (small) family is not doing anything stupid so errybody is safe on my end
Of course, I'm checking the numbers daily and ready to pull back if needed. I know things will spread from the southern states and we'll lock down again. But for now, the infection rate and numbers are low.
'Course I have severe social anxiety now and the pandemic is definitely having me like "not going to be close enough to anyone's breath now"
At least our daycare is still open and being smart about things. I have friends with young kids who are home with them all day while trying to work from home and it just sound impossible without parking the kid in front of the TV for hours at a time
It still feels weird that we don’t really have many cases in my state.
Satans..... hints.....
Our pediatrician’s daughter is in this class too and is Facebook friends with my wife- they had a nice chat about the situation. We’re all isolating for 14 days from last exposure (which ends next Friday) and he’s going to help us with testing if we develop any symptoms...he was reassuring though that our kids are probably fine and probably don’t have the baby strength to infect us, so we just need to be cautious but not super anxious.
Like, we still don't have our shit together.
GOD
They were tested yesterday, and now we're all just waiting for the test results. Until the results are in, the building's on lockdown and nobody's allowed to leave. If it does turn out to be COVID-19, we won't be allowed to leave for at least two weeks.
So... that's fun.
Right in line with Trump's strategy of just pretending it does not exist.
I imagine we will see many hospitals just self-publish their numbers.
Overall me too, but even that is a bad solution I feel.
Not all hospitals are going to do it, for one reason or another. I can imagine a lot of medical professionals wanting to report, but hospital administration is going to be a lot more gun-shy. And potentially for good reason - continuing to report it could lead to some form of retaliation, whether in an official sense or just a bureaucratic coincidence that certain supplies don't get delivered or what have you.
Sure but throwing Trump's bullshit back in his face is pretty important to do right now, too.
Oh, I know. It's absolutely not a simple decision to make. Almost as if like HEY hospitals shouldn't even have to make that sort of decision
Airbnb asks people to donate money to landlords, backlash ensues
The absolute gall of this. Get fucked Airbnb and get double fucked anyone who's squatting on multiple properties as your main income model, I hope you all go bankrupt together.
Well then, I am glad that they are too incompetent to do something stupid.
I haven't drank in almost two months but I guess I'm looking at least another 10 days of isolation and I'm starting to think I'd rather not spend them concious.
Also my computer is borked so I couldn't if I wanted to.
World of Warcraft?
Nerd crack
World of Bureld
Warcraft of Warmraft
That’s already kind of a cacophony, especially during morning peak hours when you can get a train every five to ten minutes for an hour. But some of the freight train drivers fucking lean on that horn for upwards of thirty seconds at a time, at an absolutely deafening volume. Annoyed and sleep deprived, I finally decide to look up track fatalities, cause come on, there is no way this is necessary. These drivers must either love the noise or be totally paranoid. How many people have actually got run over?
...oh, a lot,
Like, a lot a lot. Many, many every year, One from last year stuck with me because it was so fucking dumb - three guys “standing on the rail lines chatting“ (as you do!?!?) while a freight train moved past them on the parallel tracks six feet away (!!!), so they didn’t hear the one coming down the line they were standing on. One of them leapt out of the way in time, which is how we know the backstory. The other two got totally cleaned up.
“Were the barriers down?” “Yeah, but we climbed over them” (of course). “Didn’t you hear the other train honking?” “Oh yeah maybe but it’s like white noise, you know, you hear it so often?”
So, I’m a little more forgiving of the paranoid honkers now, because fucking hell. OTOH if you’re so inured to train noises that you literally ignore one coming right at your head, I dunno if any amount of warning is gonna be enough to avoid incident.
Yeah that law was a new one to me. Seems like either it’s a compound of social and infrastructural issues that make track loitering a bigger problem here than elsewhere (the homeless encampments are often near the tracks, for example), or that other places have developed different mitigation strategies.
it wouldn’t be anywhere near as much an issue if I wasn’t working at home because I’d be out of the house during peak train hours. I wonder if noise complaints are going to go up this year ...