Covid Support Thread
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Huh? Sorry, Kate. But I fail to see how Fyodor offering up basic sense advice — the same advice backed by fucking science experts everywhere is exactly shaming. WTF?! That last needlessly, snide and pointed exchange left me simply baffled.
It’s fine, Mark. We’re all on edge these days. I said what I needed to. I’d just as soon leave it be. I don’t want to be the source of more acrimony.
I also didn’t see any shaming in Fyodor’s post. The most pointed comments were from Wendy, and they also weren’t shaming. Friends don’t let friends do something which may well turn out to be stupidly fatal. Everyone wants to be able to safely go about their normal activities, there is a ton of pent up frustration which doubles after a couple of cloudy days, but we need to do what we can to avoid others literally succumbing to that frustration. the economy is hurting, people are hurting, people are dying and grieving virtually alone and everyone wants to put that all behind us, but it isn’t yet behind us and for most of us, it won’t be behind us for at least another month, possibly two and then this whole mess may re-emerge in October/November. We have to hang in there, as best we can, and support each other until there is a vaccine, or at least a good treatment for this disease. We seem headed for close to 100,000 dead Americans and if we give up on social distancing prematurely, it can be way worse than that.
BGM is nicely situated in the desert. I feel fortunate to have a house on a corner lot with a decent-sized garden, where I can blow off a lot of steam and frustration. I realize it is far, far more frustrating in big cities. It is also far, far more dangerous, although I also am living in a hot zone — my county has the highest per capita infection (not death rate) in PA and my city leads the county and is 5X the state average.
You’re not the source of any acrimony. I just found that whole exchange rather shocking. We literally have people in this very thread waging a scary, daily battle against this crazy, deadly illness…
Sorry, but I’m calling it out. Going but going after you for calmly promoting sound scientific advice was just completely uncalled for.
Damn right it did. It simply didn’t even sound like you. To be blunt —I’ve never, ever seen you post anything even remotely close to being that fucking tone-deaf.
I think you’ve called me tone deaf a bunch of times. Not sure why this would now shock you, but weird times I guess.
Anyway!
Helen, I’m also in Georgia and I’m so pissed at Kemp. This is all a ploy to get 1099 people off of unemployment, as far as i’m concerned. I read that if restaurants/salons/etc. choose not to open, the burden of unemployment then falls to the business to pay. If that’s true, it’s going to screw them over completely.
This whole thing makes me want to pack up and move somewhere that’s not run by a heartless moron who ran his own election. I’m probably going to have to go back to work soon (i work for the county in a public-facing job and have gotten emails hinting as much) and this idiot is going to get people killed.
Ugh. End rant.
Making other people come to work during a pandemic so you can get services you don’t really need, well that’s what freedom is all about!
I haven’t had much to contribute to this thread. Just wanted to let you know that an internet stranger is thinking about you all especially those who have been sick or who have family or knows someone who is sick.
I am grateful that our premier (I guess the equivalent of governor) is being a leader, even though I thought he was Donald Trump light before. I’m still disheartened that our numbers are still going up. Innocent question, does your “shelter in place” or stay at home order mean you are not allowed to be outside at all other than for groceries or pharmacies (i.e., “shutdown”?), e.g., you’d need a special essential worker permit in your car (though I realize many of you are in cities) if you were on the road?
On a lighter note I caught up on your that John Frieda brush. I’ve had the Revlon one for three years in May! I still like it. I’d love to try the new brush because Kate’s beauty recommendations are rarely wrong. But I’ve had a pay cut at work, and I feel bad about non essential purchases, even take out and supporting local businesses, or silly things like puzzles (!). I am fortunate because I do have savings and I can work from home still. Work initially cut pay even more then raised it which was good, but it’s just in the back of my mind. There’s so much uncertainty. I don’t know what’s going to happen next month.
A couple different extended family members have been admitted to the hospital for non COVID reasons. It’s just so sad all of it, that immediate family can’t visit (rightly, but still).
We have orders to shelter in place, but enforcement and disciplinary actions are a whole other thing. I saw a local woman got a ticket for going on a nonessential drive. She will probably just hire a lawyer and never have to pay the fine, I don’t know.
I have plenty of extended family making nonessential trips. A niece had a birthday parade of cars through her suburban neighborhood, and now her mother isn’t speaking to me because I said I was going to follow the shelter in place/no nonessential travel restrictions.
Grocery, pharmacies, exercise are considered essential here.
I don’t think life is going back to normal in a month or two. I think a lot of people have hit their boredom breaking point, and they are pushing back against restrictions but I doubt we’re going to be back in action even in a few months.
