General Coronavirus (COVID-19) chat

[Looby]

I’m sorry, I haven’t read the thread but it seems like the appropriate place for this. Is anyone else feeling uncomfortable about sharing stuff when this forum is public?
Maybe it’s just me and I’ll stick to shagging and diseases but it feels slightly more exposing than I’m comfortable with.

 

[Teaboy]

I’m sorry, I haven’t read the thread but it seems like the appropriate place for this. Is anyone else feeling uncomfortable about sharing stuff when this forum is public?
Maybe it’s just me and I’ll stick to shagging and diseases but it feels slightly more exposing than I’m comfortable with.

There is a corona sofa thread in k&s which has restricted (to a degree) access.

There is some very good information and advice on this sub forum which I would prefer to be available to all regardless of whether they are a contributor or not. That's my thoughts anyway.

Edit: Its actually in parenting but I doubt they'd mind you chipping in. You could always start a new one in general k&s.

 

[ruffneck23]

I'm getting really annoyed with one of my mates , refusing to believe there is anything to be unduly worried about. I'm on the verge of telling her to grow up an stop being an idiot, she is so convinced she is right and asking me who i know has got it and proof , blah blah ,saying she thought better of me as I am concerned.

she is now saying its no black plague, ive just pointed out it took 3 years for the plague to wipe out a 3rd of europe whilst this has only been a couple of months. our friendship is on the brink lol

 

[SheilaNaGig]

I'm getting really annoyed with one of my mates , refusing to believe there is anything to be unduly worried about. I'm on the verge of telling her to grow up an stop being an idiot, she is so convinced she is right and asking me who i know has got it and proof , blah blah ,saying she thought better of me as I am concerned.

I think the time to be polite and patient with this shit is way gone. I've been the one impressing on people the seriousness of this for about two weeks. Been laughed at scoffed and mocked ignored both politely and rudely. Some people are choosing not to look, preferring not to know. In most ordinary circumstances that can be tolerated, but not now when wilful ignorance puts the lives of others at risk.


A young friend of mine was doing a gig last Friday. I really wanted to go, to see her play and to support her on tour. At the last minute I decided not to go and felt regretful and fretful all evening. Yesterday she posted on Facebook saying that she had come down hard with something dreadful and it had been diagnosed by NHS111 as C-19. She apologised for being complacent and foolish in previous weeks. She said she'd been dismissive, believing that being young and strong she either wouldn't get it or wouldn't get it badly, taking no precautions of any kind. She said she'd been as ill as ever in her life, unconscious and delirious for some of the time, and breathing was still painful and difficult. She also made a plea to all her friends fans cohorts peers to stop being complacent and start paying attention. I'm very glad she's okay, I'm very glad she's made that post, and I'm also very glad I didn't go to the gig, I would most certainly have been in close contact with her that evening.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

I'm getting really annoyed with one of my mates , refusing to believe there is anything to be unduly worried about. I'm on the verge of telling her to grow up an stop being an idiot, she is so convinced she is right and asking me who i know has got it and proof , blah blah ,saying she thought better of me as I am concerned.

It's weird isn't it? Ignoring all the advice just so you can see yourself as some sort of Truth Warrior.
What's the benefit? To whom?

 

[SheilaNaGig]

I live very close to a primary school. I really love the sound of the children playing. I'm sitting here soaking it up because I know I won't hear it for a long time to come

 

[Looby]

There is a corona sofa thread in k&s which has restricted (to a degree) access.

There is some very good information and advice on this sub forum which I would prefer to be available to all regardless of whether they are a contributor or not. That's my thoughts anyway.

Edit: Its actually in parenting but I doubt they'd mind you chipping in. You could always start a new one in general k&s.

I already am on the corona sofa but there are other threads that I’d like to contribute to like the WFH thread but hold back.
Fair enough that people want to keep them open, just wondered if other people feel similar.

 

[ruffneck23]

It's weird isn't it? Ignoring all the advice just so you can see yourself as some sort of Truth Warrior.
What's the benefit? To whom?

Thing is she has a mum in a care home, she hasnt even mentioned it, then going on about Death is death and it is what it is, oh so brave

I dont want to mention how she didnt feel that way about death when one of her mates killed himself few years back, as that would be cruel,

 

[SpookyFrank]

Might be worth having a thread listing companies who have acted selfishly or treated staff/customers with contempt?
Covid19ShitList
#covid19boycottlist

Absolutely. Also comanies engaged in profiteeting.

 

[Numbers]

I live very close to a primary school. I really love the sound of the children playing. I'm sitting here soaking it up because I know I won't hear it for a long time to come

As a complete aside. We went to Cannes for our wedding anniversary last October and whilst our room was lovely it overlooked a random boring street and we were initially a tad annoyed. Next morning tho’ the sound of the kids playing in the school playground opposite was incredible.

 

[SheilaNaGig]

Thing is she has a mum in a care home, she hasnt even mentioned it, then going on about Death is death and it is what it is, oh so brave

I dont want to mention how she didnt feel that way about death when one of her mates killed himself few years back, as that would be cruel,

Maybe it’s the experience of having been bereaved by suicide quite recently that’s contributing to this current fatalism?

It took me years and years to get back to something approaching normal around death danger and disaster after my best friend killed himself.

 

[ruffneck23]

Maybe it’s the experience of having been bereaved by suicide quite recently that’s contributing to this current fatalism?

It took me years and years to get back to something approaching normal around death danger and disaster after my best friend killed himself.

sorry to hear that youve been through this .

I haven't said it , but I have told her to back off for a bit before we fall out.

Any unexpected side effect of all this

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Absolutely. Also comanies engaged in profiteeting.

Londis near where a friend lives: £4 for a 4 pack of loo roll and £7 for hand sanitiser

 

[ruffneck23]

Londis near where a friend lives: £4 for a 4 pack of loo roll and £7 for hand sanitiser

our clown of a pm was asked about this yesterday.

his reponse was to ask people to be nicer , grrr

 

[Badgers]

Just had my weekly shower and fortnightly shave then broke the toilet roll holder off the wall oh well, it may not be needed soon

 

[elbows]

One thing about younger members of society is that they might make the wrong assumptions about older people having lived through similar situations before. Certainly I saw someone in their 20's on a local news report earlier this week who was under the impression it was just people her age and younger who hadnt lived through anything like this before. Made me realise that yeah, how would they know that these times are exceptional for pretty much everyone? Well knowing history in detail would be one way to find that out, but plenty dont, especially if history was taught in a boring and narrow way to them. I dont think my knowledge of history and geography improved till years after I'd left school!

 

[Teaboy]

It's weird isn't it? Ignoring all the advice just so you can see yourself as some sort of Truth Warrior.
What's the benefit? To whom?

I guess the benefit is to herself. Believing that makes life a lot easier and less boring in the short term and also avoids having to stare into the abyss which the future currently is.

 

[treelover]

Sainsbury's describes the store as a superstore and I'm not sure how it's an 'inaccurate' telling of the story either - the place has a car park so facilitates bulk buying.

my neighbour just been in the msssive archer road sainsburys in sheffield and he says it is like a plague of locusts have descended, hardly nothing left.

 

[treelover]

I dont think many air lines or holiday tour operators are going to be still standing when all this is over. And i think getting refunds on holidays we booked will be the least of our worries.

my friend who i mention a bit, a former inf diseases nurse says a huge amount of people will die, my GP basically just wished me luck ,. saying it was the big one, just not sinking in with many.

 

[treelover]

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I think what shouldn't be underestimated that for a lot of older people the prospect of staying in, possibly alone, for months is more terrifying than the chance they'll get a disease they don't understand and aren't afraid of.

i have been in all week, going stir crazy, going out to sit outside coffee shop, one of few still open

 

[MrCurry]

Meanwhile there’s a vocal minority who are not only carrying on as normal, ignoring all govt advice to reduce socialising because “I’m not in one of the risk groups”, but also whinging about the “hysterical overreaction” which apparently risks costing them money. This guy triggered me today:



Typical “I’m alright Jack” attitude and his only worry seems to be that his IT consultancy workload might decrease a bit. Twat.

 

[treelover]

I keep veering into a place where it feels like we’ve gone collectively mad, it’s all nonsense and hysteria and complete overreaction. When it passes off I realised with a jolt that that’s a kind of defence mechanism for trying to handle the end of the world.

Not being melodramatic here, but nothing will ever be the same again after this. The old ways and the old world is ended and whatever emerges after this will be new and different and strange. Even the old stuff that survives and comes with us will be different because it will be affected by what has happened. It’s almost impossible to fathom. It’s happened so fast. It’s abstract even while we’re living it. So the brain shuts down and says “nope”.

And yeah, it’s quite peculiar that yoga teachers and so forth who presumably desired for the old order to be radically different are somehow refusing to accept or understand that things are falling apart now. Are they so attached to the old order because there they can be comfortably “different” without actually putting any effort into change?

I was hoping people would discuss this on the Spanish Flu thread, did much change after, not too sure, in many ways it was forgotten.

 

[treelover]

Good tweet:



Might be worth having a thread listing companies who have acted selfishly or treated staff/customers with contempt?
Covid19ShitList
#covid19boycottlist

fucking great!

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

Just had a young woman at the door - new family who moved into the street a month or so ago - probably 17 years old.

She's just been round all the doors introducing herself - at a distance - and handing out one of those cards with her contact details, offering to get shopping etc for people who are self-isolating. Apparently all the sixth-years at the local school got together before it shut today and decided they would do this, splitting up the village into manageable chunks between them.

I mean, what can you say. My heart is bursting.

 

[treelover]

Meanwhile there’s a vocal minority who are not only carrying on as normal, ignoring all govt advice to reduce socialising because “I’m not in one of the risk groups”, but also whinging about the “hysterical overreaction” which apparently risks costing them money. This guy triggered me today:



Typical “I’m alright Jack” attitude and his only worry seems to be that his IT consultancy workload might decrease a bit. Twat.

I imagine Spiked are part of this perspective..

 

[Sue]

One thing about younger members of society is that they might make the wrong assumptions about older people having lived through similar situations before. Certainly I saw someone in their 20's on a local news report earlier this week who was under the impression it was just people her age and younger who hadnt lived through anything like this before. Made me realise that yeah, how would they know that these times are exceptional for pretty much everyone? Well knowing history in detail would be one way to find that out, but plenty dont, especially if history was taught in a boring and narrow way to them. I dont think my knowledge of history and geography improved till years after I'd left school!

I was talking to a late-20s colleague yesterday about living through historic events. I mentioned the millennium and he mentioned HIV/AIDS in 80s/90s. It kind of caught me by surprise as I'd never really thought of it like that before (and was also very surprised he had.)

 

[Marty1]

Well, the London panic buying has spread to the northeast and supermarkets are fucking bare

 

[bimble]

I'm having strange thoughts. Right now it does not feel to me likely that we'll ever really 'go back to normal' as in resume just where we left off, not this year or next or anytime soon at all. I don't mean we'll be stuck indoors but people who study such things knew it was basically just a matter of time until we had a global pandemic of some sort. Nobody is able to say when there'll be an effective vaccine or treatment and even when there is, for this particular bug, another will come along in due course.
What if this means that certain things are changed forever - so that in decades from now the physical environment the way we live and travel and build cities and public spaces will bear the marks of its impact and attempts to brace against the next one. I don't know maybe am losing it.

 

[ruffneck23]

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I'm having strange thoughts. Right now it does not feel to me likely that we'll ever really 'go back to normal' as in resume just where we left off, not this year or next or anytime soon at all. I don't mean we'll be stuck indoors but people who study such things knew it was basically just a matter of time until we had a global pandemic of some sort. Nobody is able to say when there'll be an effective vaccine or treatment and even when there is, for this particular bug, another will come along in due course.
What if this means that certain things are changed forever - so that in decades from now the physical environment the way we live and travel and build cities and public spaces will bear the marks of its impact and attempts to brace against the next one. I don't know maybe am losing it.

I dont think you are, things are definitely going to be different from now

 

[Mrs Miggins]

I dont think you are, things are definitely going to be different from now

I honestly don't think anything is going to change when all this is over. There will be good people who will help the vulnerable through this but they have always been there.

The majority have already shown themselves to be selfish cunts buying up everything in sight. That is not going to change at any point soon.

Yeah the government are stepping in saying they are going to help people out but as soon as this is over, it will be business as usual. I think you are fucking mad if you think otherwise.