The Virus - Are You Affected?

[DrZoidberg]

I messaged a Swedish celebrity that my ex-wife admires on Facebook. He called her to cheer her up. I thought that was nice.

 

[bleubird]

I work at a liquor store. Business has been crazy.Go figure.Boss made masks and gloves mandatory. I hate gloves.

 

[barbos]

Sorry. I meant Anthony Fauci.

I know, I just don't understand how you managed to pull off such a typo.
And I don't think Trump can fire Fauci either, not without 25th-ing himself.

Are you kidding? He could shoot Fauci on live TV and the toadies in the Cabinet wouldn't "25" him.
This government is 100% controlled by corrupt Republican kleptocrats, very much like Russia.

I thought Putin controlled kleptocrats. Anyway, I think someone recently convinced Trump to take COVID-19 somewhat seriously. I can't exclude threats of 25th having played a role there.

 

[ZiprHead]

I work at a liquor store. Business has been crazy.Go figure.Boss made masks and gloves mandatory. I hate gloves.

Worked for ten years in a hospital laboratory wearing gloves all through the eight hour shifts. You'll get used to them.

 

[bilby]

I work at a liquor store. Business has been crazy.Go figure.Boss made masks and gloves mandatory. I hate gloves.

Worked for ten years in a hospital laboratory wearing gloves all through the eight hour shifts. You'll get used to them.

In the current climate, you just have to decide which you hate more: Wearing gloves; or Not having lungs.

 

[crazyfingers]

By my wife's estimate, she has finished grocery shopping for two weeks. With me, her and 3 teenagers, that's a lot of milk required. We are using the freezer and refrigerator at my parent's empty house for extra storage.

We will still need to go out to see my mom. She's in assisted living about 2 miles away. She is having a hard time with the isolation. But there is C19 in the building. I want to go see her but I don't want to go see her. It's a day to day decision.

 

[Elixir]

I work at a liquor store. Business has been crazy.Go figure.Boss made masks and gloves mandatory. I hate gloves.

Worked for ten years in a hospital laboratory wearing gloves all through the eight hour shifts. You'll get used to them.

In the current climate, you just have to decide which you hate more: Wearing gloves; or Not having lungs.

When I went out for dog supplies yesterday I was a little leery of getting stopped and asked why I was out and about. Then I remembered - liquor stores and pot shops are "essential".
Whodathunkit.

 

[Elixir]

Are you kidding? He could shoot Fauci on live TV and the toadies in the Cabinet wouldn't "25" him.
This government is 100% controlled by corrupt Republican kleptocrats, very much like Russia.

I thought Putin controlled kleptocrats.

Read carefully Barbos - "This government is 100% controlled by corrupt Republican kleptocrats", and yes, to some significant degree those same kleptocrats are in turn controlled by Putin, and to a lesser degree MBS and a whole lineup of other corrupt despots who know that Trump is more easily manipulated than a three-axis robotic grab arm.
Pretty sure one or more of them "advised" Donald that he better take COVFEFE-19 more seriously or his story would have to change even more than it already has, and more than it already will have to in the near future.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

By my wife's estimate, she has finished grocery shopping for two weeks. With me, her and 3 teenagers, that's a lot of milk required. We are using the freezer and refrigerator at my parent's empty house for extra storage.

We will still need to go out to see my mom. She's in assisted living about 2 miles away. She is having a hard time with the isolation. But there is C19 in the building. I want to go see her but I don't want to go see her. It's a day to day decision.

You probably already have, but if not, use technology! Get her the biggest Kindle Fire and use Skype or whatever to communicate.

 

[crazyfingers]

By my wife's estimate, she has finished grocery shopping for two weeks. With me, her and 3 teenagers, that's a lot of milk required. We are using the freezer and refrigerator at my parent's empty house for extra storage.

We will still need to go out to see my mom. She's in assisted living about 2 miles away. She is having a hard time with the isolation. But there is C19 in the building. I want to go see her but I don't want to go see her. It's a day to day decision.

You probably already have, but if not, use technology! Get her the biggest Kindle Fire and use Skype or whatever to communicate.

Unfortunately, my mom can't remember the simplest technology. Even the TV remote she can't remember that CH means channel and that ^ is up the channels and V is down the channels.

She can't remember how to run the microwave. She can't remember that 4,5, START is how to run the microwave for 45 seconds.

We have started to look at a way to give her a tablet that she never has to touch the controls. But we can't expect her to remember to even press the answer button on a Skype call. She won't remember that she can touch the screen or that the green handset up button is to answer. It would need to be set to answer automatically, always be on, always charging and screen off's when not in use.

 

[Copernicus]

Are you kidding? He could shoot Fauci on live TV and the toadies in the Cabinet wouldn't "25" him.
This government is 100% controlled by corrupt Republican kleptocrats, very much like Russia.

I thought Putin controlled kleptocrats.

Read carefully Barbos - "This government is 100% controlled by corrupt Republican kleptocrats", and yes, to some significant degree those same kleptocrats are in turn controlled by Putin, and to a lesser degree MBS and a whole lineup of other corrupt despots who know that Trump is more easily manipulated than a three-axis robotic grab arm.
Pretty sure one or more of them "advised" Donald that he better take COVFEFE-19 more seriously or his story would have to change even more than it already has, and more than it already will have to in the near future.

Putin only controls his kleptocrats, although I know that "With Putin, Everything is Possible."

BTW, you should be on a forced one-week stay-home-from-work order, and I know that there is panic buying around Russia. Toilet paper, the most valued commodity of panic buyers, is disappearing everywhere. Are you seeing these problems where you live? I know that you said you were in a remote area.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

By my wife's estimate, she has finished grocery shopping for two weeks. With me, her and 3 teenagers, that's a lot of milk required. We are using the freezer and refrigerator at my parent's empty house for extra storage.

We will still need to go out to see my mom. She's in assisted living about 2 miles away. She is having a hard time with the isolation. But there is C19 in the building. I want to go see her but I don't want to go see her. It's a day to day decision.

You probably already have, but if not, use technology! Get her the biggest Kindle Fire and use Skype or whatever to communicate.

Unfortunately, my mom can't remember the simplest technology. Even the TV remote she can't remember that CH means channel and that ^ is up the channels and V is down the channels.

She can't remember how to run the microwave. She can't remember that 4,5, START is how to run the microwave for 45 seconds.

*sigh* I guess tech is out then. Have you thought about a ridiculous array of mirrors from your place to the nursing home?

We have started to look at a way to give her a tablet that she never has to touch the controls. But we can't expect her to remember to even press the answer button on a Skype call. She won't remember that she can touch the screen or that the green handset up button is to answer. It would need to be set to answer automatically, always be on, always charging and screen off's when not in use.

At this point, I'm thinking get an LED picture frame, load it up with photos of the family and drop that off.

That is if the mirror idea doesn't work.

 

[4321lynx]

Does she recognize the people in the photos? Or you when you visit? Many patients have no idea who is visiting them,
Have you asked her "Who am I ?" Without using the word mother when you first see her that day? Maybe your feelings of guilt are unnecessary. I know that's not easy to do.

 

[barbos]

Read carefully Barbos - "This government is 100% controlled by corrupt Republican kleptocrats", and yes, to some significant degree those same kleptocrats are in turn controlled by Putin, and to a lesser degree MBS and a whole lineup of other corrupt despots who know that Trump is more easily manipulated than a three-axis robotic grab arm.
Pretty sure one or more of them "advised" Donald that he better take COVFEFE-19 more seriously or his story would have to change even more than it already has, and more than it already will have to in the near future.

Putin only controls his kleptocrats, although I know that "With Putin, Everything is Possible."

BTW, you should be on a forced one-week stay-home-from-work order, and I know that there is panic buying around Russia. Toilet paper, the most valued commodity of panic buyers, is disappearing everywhere. Are you seeing these problems where you live? I know that you said you were in a remote area.

Some non essential shops seems to be closed. Toilet paper and food including buckwheat is present.
Some people are wearing ordinary masks which, as we know, don't protect you, they only protect from you. But there are less people on the streets. I have a bunch of N95 masks somewhere, just can't find it.
Saw a woman with a mask which was not covering nose
This time of year masks are not unusual but men wearing masks is unusual.

 

[DrZoidberg]

The virus has affected my love life. My girlfriend lives in Malmö. So south of Sweden. I live in Copenhagen. The border is now closed. So we haven't been able to meet for three weeks. About half a year ago I flirted a bit with a Copenhagen girl. It didn't go anywhere. She already had a boyfriend. Two weeks ago she commented on something I'd shared on Facebook and we started talking again. Her boyfriend is a doctor, infected with Corona and is in quarantine. So they couldn't meet. Both me and her were in open relationships. So neither of our partners had any problems with me and her connecting and having sex.

One thing led to another. Now we've both broken up with our partners and we're now a newly in love couple. It'll be interesting to see if this keeps going after the Coronacrisis. We'll see.

There's an expression for this, "Corona crush". Or a "corossionship".

So this virus has worked out really well for me.

 

[crazyfingers]

Does she recognize the people in the photos? Or you when you visit? Many patients have no idea who is visiting them,
Have you asked her "Who am I ?" Without using the word mother when you first see her that day? Maybe your feelings of guilt are unnecessary. I know that's not easy to do.

Her long term memory is strong. She definitely knows who she is and who we are. She knows how to do things she has done all her life except for technology. It's strange but true.

We tried having a video Skype call a few days ago. I was there with my phone and projected the rest of the family to the TV. It was a nice visit. But when it ended she asked where everyone else had gone. I don't know if she never realized that the rest of the family was never physically there or if she forgot.

She also can't do much because of her Parkinson. She is mainly stuck in a wheelchair and has very low dexterity in her hands. She's also extremely forgetful. Her short term memory sucks. We have frequently had a perfectly lucid discussion about something and ten minutes later she'll have forgotten that we talked about it. But she misses us a lot so it's the pull-push. Do I see her today or not? I day to day decision.

 

[ZiprHead]

The virus has affected my love life. My girlfriend lives in Malmö. So south of Sweden. I live in Copenhagen. The border is now closed. So we haven't been able to meet for three weeks. About half a year ago I flirted a bit with a Copenhagen girl. It didn't go anywhere. She already had a boyfriend. Two weeks ago she commented on something I'd shared on Facebook and we started talking again. Her boyfriend is a doctor, infected with Corona and is in quarantine. So they couldn't meet. Both me and her were in open relationships. So neither of our partners had any problems with me and her connecting and having sex.

One thing led to another. Now we've both broken up with our partners and we're now a newly in love couple. It'll be interesting to see if this keeps going after the Coronacrisis. We'll see.

There's an expression for this, "Corona crush". Or a "corossionship".

So this virus has worked out really well for me.

She broke up with her boyfriend while he had CV 19? That's cold.

 

[ruby sparks]

I guess the main thing is that she didn't have sex with him after he caught it.

 

[4321lynx]

I guess the main thing is that she didn't have sex with him after he caught it.

How do you know that?

 

[Toni]

I guess the main thing is that she didn't have sex with him after he caught it.

How do you know that?

It’s not sexually transmitted although I get the assumption that some spit would be swapped during sex.

But sex doesn’t have to occur. Or kissing. Or physical contact.

But yeah. Cold.