Have you severed communications with friends over Covid?

[CaliforniaGirl]

Folks, the living in fear bulls*** (from conspiracy theorists afraid of, like, frigging everything) is getting old. Even the schoolyard bully who wore belly shirts over his rolls and picked his nose so frequently you thought his finger was going to eventually emerge with an emerald had more creativity than this. Let's mix it up. Surely there's some other utterly laughable misrepresentation out there to glom onto for the next six months straight. Put your heads together. Make one brain and figure out a new projection-style insult, we beg of you. 

Edited September 14, 2020 by CaliforniaGirl

[Azincourt]

I live in fear and paranoia and I'm pretty chill about it.

I avoid all human contact that I can avoid. I go to the supermarket? I stay away from people several feet. Is it impossible when there's so many people around? Yeah, that's why you go really early in the morning, or really late in the afternoon, when there's little people around.

I don't touch people. I wear my facial masks so much that I don't even feel them anymore.  It's not ideal, but it's better to be paranoid than dead, or to have my internal orgams permanently damaged by the virus.

[CaliforniaGirl]

3 minutes ago, Azincourt said:

I live in fear and paranoia and I'm pretty chill about it.

I avoid all human contact that I can avoid. I go to the supermarket? I stay away from people several feet. Is it impossible when there's so many people around? Yeah, that's why you go really early in the morning, or really late in the afternoon, when there's little people around.

I don't touch people. I wear my facial masks so much that I don't even feel them anymore.  It's not ideal, but it's better to be paranoid than dead, or to have my internal orgams permanently damaged by the virus.

I literally know no "masker" who is living in fear, we just want the hell out already. 

Nearly everyone I know personally masks up, and goes on with life. I know one person who avoids going out at all. She's 79 years old and has leukemia.

[Azincourt]

21 minutes ago, CaliforniaGirl said:

I literally know no "masker" who is living in fear, we just want the hell out already. 

Nearly everyone I know personally masks up, and goes on with life. I know one person who avoids going out at all. She's 79 years old and has leukemia.

Yeah, but you don't live in one of the hot spots for the disease, do you? A retirement home not even one mile away was discovered to have about 15 dudes infected.

I was talking to this old dude keeping safety measures enforced and secured, and the guy tells me his daughter was infected with the virus. She lives in the building 1 minute away from my residential building. Come on, bro. I gotta be careful.

Mask + washing my hands with the best advised soap for the task, 10 times a day, 5 minutes per session.

Carrying hand sanitizer with me everyday, all day, using it everytime I touch a surface that is commonly touched by someone else, like the ATM machine.

Don't eat out.  Sterilize with extremely hot water all of the produce and products I buy at the grocers or supermarket. Go for my 2 times a day hygienc walks, but stay away from everyone, and as soon as I see someone coming my way, I turn around and find a road with no people in it.

I love dogs but I don't touch dogs 'cause I'd need to be in close proximity to the owner.

Sorry, but I want to be the first man to live to 150.

[CaliforniaGirl]

1 hour ago, Azincourt said:

Yeah, but you don't live in one of the hot spots for the disease, do you? A retirement home not even one mile away was discovered to have about 15 dudes infected.

I was talking to this old dude keeping safety measures enforced and secured, and the guy tells me his daughter was infected with the virus. She lives in the building 1 minute away from my residential building. Come on, bro. I gotta be careful.

Mask + washing my hands with the best advised soap for the task, 10 times a day, 5 minutes per session.

Carrying hand sanitizer with me everyday, all day, using it everytime I touch a surface that is commonly touched by someone else, like the ATM machine.

Don't eat out.  Sterilize with extremely hot water all of the produce and products I buy at the grocers or supermarket. Go for my 2 times a day hygienc walks, but stay away from everyone, and as soon as I see someone coming my way, I turn around and find a road with no people in it.

I love dogs but I don't touch dogs 'cause I'd need to be in close proximity to the owner.

Sorry, but I want to be the first man to live to 150.

I'm not a bro. As far as hot spots I'm in Los Angeles County. 

[Azincourt]

2 minutes ago, CaliforniaGirl said:

I'm not a bro. As far as hot spots I'm in Los Angeles County. 

Every woman is a bro unless we've matched  on tinder 🤣

Yeah, but I'm in Europe, in one of the biggest hot spots around. I have to be far more careful about covi-19  than most dudes back home in CA

[Angelle]

1 hour ago, Azincourt said:

I live in fear and paranoia and I'm pretty chill about it.

I avoid all human contact that I can avoid. I go to the supermarket? I stay away from people several feet. Is it impossible when there's so many people around? Yeah, that's why you go really early in the morning, or really late in the afternoon, when there's little people around.

I don't touch people. I wear my facial masks so much that I don't even feel them anymore.  It's not ideal, but it's better to be paranoid than dead, or to have my internal orgams permanently damaged by the virus.

I'm like you, but I'm home all the time, and my dad is out almost all the time (working), so he gets the groceries - but I need to change that. I used to be agoraphobic, and that kind of came back with all of this, but it has nothing with my being concerned about getting sick - I'm worried about being lax, picking it up, and passing it along to someone who won't be able to handle it. My dad is healthy, but I still worry about him. So I occasionally get teased about having a stick shoved somewhere, but I don't care. 

I've wanted people to do the right thing, so that we can get this over with. I miss sitting in the bookstore cafe, I miss the beach, the library - everything. I miss just browsing in stores, instead of a shopping trip being treated like something out of Mission Impossible. I miss the movies, even though we couldn't go that often. My county went red last week, and I'm sick of being surrounded by no-maskers/people who are convinced that it's a hoax, in my community. I felt better when the numbers were down, and some activities were being resumed (back in June). Our health director quit, due to being harassed, stalked, sent death threats - so much that the woman who was going to start the other day, changed her mind. She didn't want to be subjected to all of that, and I don't blame her. 

[Eternal Sunshine]

I go out every day with a 3 layer mask and hand disinfectant (well as far as lockdown allows me). I actually believe that there will be no need for any lockdowns if everyone was mask compliant.

[Mrin]

35 minutes ago, Azincourt said:

Every woman is a bro unless we've matched  on tinder 🤣

Yeah, but I'm in Europe, in one of the biggest hot spots around. I have to be far more careful about covi-19  than most dudes back home in CA

Pssst. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/california/

[Azincourt]

15 minutes ago, Mrin said:

Pssst. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/california/

Almost a million. Scary. Sorry to hear you're all going through that, guys. I hope we'll all get through this as quickly as possible.

[elaine567]

Well in the UK our positive cases are due to go down, way down as today it is revealed that some who need a test cannot get a test for love nor money. 
No home texts no drive in tests no walk in tests...
After hobbling along for the past few weeks, the test system has rolled over and is in need of life support...
Urgent discussions in order...

[Angelle]

1 hour ago, Eternal Sunshine said:

 I actually believe that there will be no need for any lockdowns if everyone was mask compliant.

So do I.

Edited September 14, 2020 by Angelle

[Azincourt]

Yeah... no.

Even with everyone wearing a mask just to walk their dog and to feel the sunshine on their skin: the lockdowns must still be in effect for everything to be taken under control as fast as possible.

Starbucks and Olive garden ain't gonna vanish into thin air just because we all gotta stay in lockdown, and trust me, if old people can stay in quarentine and obey it since the moment it was made mandatory in several Euro Countries for a very long time: y'all can stay inside your homes for most of the time, for 3 weeks or more if necessary.

[Angelle]

5 minutes ago, Azincourt said:

Yeah... no.

Even with everyone wearing a mask just to walk their dog and to feel the sunshine on their skin: the lockdowns must still be in effect for everything to be taken under control as fast as possible.

Starbucks and Olive garden ain't gonna vanish into thin air just because we all gotta stay in lockdown, and trust me, if old people can stay in quarentine and obey it since the moment it was made mandatory in several Euro Countries for a very long time: y'all can stay inside your homes for most of the time, for 3 weeks or more if necessary.

I've been home almost the entire year, and I was home a good amount before that. My life didn't change that much. I'm not concerned about Starbucks going anywhere, I just know that we were doing really well in my area - in my State - until things started to open again, and *people refused to wear masks/socially distance/started partying*. 

[Azincourt]

Sameeee.

Been  home since the Chinese doctors who leaked the existence of a new covid virus made it known to the world. I already had supplies of food, medicine, eletronics, books, water etc etc that will last me for years, so going weeks without leaving the house was no problem if the need for it was to show up, and so it happened I become a recluse for the worst of the first wave.

Can't say I'm not bored most of the time not being able to go the beach, can't play soccer, can't meet up with my friends, can't go to nightclubs, can't go to music festivals, can't meet new people.. but I very much enjoy being alive sooooooo.

[Weezy1973]

Honestly pretty much all friends and family are similarly thinking. Masks at such a minimal inconvenience, what’s the big deal. Keeping a small bubble has been easier for some than others but everybody is still doing it. 

[Angelle]

1 hour ago, Azincourt said:

Sameeee.

Been  home since the Chinese doctors who leaked the existence of a new covid virus made it known to the world. I already had supplies of food, medicine, eletronics, books, water etc etc that will last me for years, so going weeks without leaving the house was no problem if the need for it was to show up, and so it happened I become a recluse for the worst of the first wave.

Can't say I'm not bored most of the time not being able to go the beach, can't play soccer, can't meet up with my friends, can't go to nightclubs, can't go to music festivals, can't meet new people.. but I very much enjoy being alive sooooooo.

My previous comments about missing things, had nothing to do with boredom. They were my mental health escapes, you could say, because I spend most of my time alone. 2020 has nothing on most of the past decade, when it comes to my own life. 

[Azincourt]

Yeah, I've also been spending all of these months alone.  Would  be better if I had a dog, but a dog deserves a loving family that can take care of it for as long as it is alive, and I travel around a lot so I can't give a dog that life.

[QuietRiot]

Well, a thing happened today. A neighbor who hadn't been in touch with another neighbor for a while out of the blue asked her to lunch at a "great mexican restaurant" an hour away...HER treat.

The said neighbor said she doesn't feel safe just yet.  She and her husband have underlying conditions...the response was a sad, "You can't hide forever", needless to say, they probably won't be talking anymore.

[basil67]

6 minutes ago, QuietRiot said:

The said neighbor said she doesn't feel safe just yet.  She and her husband have underlying conditions...the response was a sad, "You can't hide forever", needless to say, they probably won't be talking anymore.

Or, they may agree to disagree and remain friendly.   Not everyone writes off those they disagree with.   

[Spring1234]

8 hours ago, basil67 said:

Or, they may agree to disagree and remain friendly.   Not everyone writes off those they disagree with.   

Tell that to my family and friends, literally heard from nobody today that disagreed with me about the virus.

[basil67]

1 hour ago, Spring1234 said:

Tell that to my family and friends, literally heard from nobody today that disagreed with me about the virus.

Agreeing to disagree and remaining friendly requires both sides to hold their tongues. 

[Azincourt]

2 hours ago, Spring1234 said:

Tell that to my family and friends, literally heard from nobody today that disagreed with me about the virus.

Cut off all contact with your family and friends if you don't need their aid in anything whatosever. People who disregard what doctors who've studied hard all their lives and have decades of experience behind them,  aren't people who are right in the head.

[QuietRiot]

3 minutes ago, Azincourt said:

Cut off all contact with your family and friends if you don't need their aid in anything whatosever. People who disregard what doctors who've studied hard all their lives and have decades of experience behind them,  aren't people who are right in the head.

Honestly, when it's all over, would you reconnect with them? I dunno, I don't see it really worth to permanently damage family ties altogether.

[Azincourt]

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Honestly, when it's all over, would you reconnect with them? I dunno, I don't see it really worth to permanently damage family ties altogether.

 

Unless my  family is rich and I'm on the will to inherit their houses, money and land - No, I wouldn't reconnect with them, if my family actually believed the virus to be just every season's flu, and didn't take precautions to protect themselves and others.