I’m assuming these are tougher measures than anywhere in America has ever undertaken despite having far less (though still disastrous numbers) cases?
Everyone who saw it when it was posted upstream.
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Pretty sure in some states you may get in trouble for hitting one of them. Shooting? Totally justified.
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Off the back of this thread I went through and cleaned up my Facebook wall, lots of unfollowing.
Man.
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There is a lot of garbage and people I dont care at all about there.
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When did the ads get so bad? Its literally every 3 or 4th post. I feel like the frog who has suddenly sensed the temperature. They must have been ramping this up slowly for a while.
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Yikes gl. My personal opinion is that a hotel room is pretty safe. I’ve stayed at 3 Hilton family properties this trip. They have a time limit after cleaning before a room can be entered.
Avoid the elevator as much as possible. Order delivery or go get takeout if you can get a homewood suites or similar with a kitchen.
That said as long as your household has been consitently safe in wearing masks I would think a quarantine with vulnerable family is ok. Keep the masks on indoors when outside of your personal room (if you trust the air circulation pattern).
But if your risk tolerance is lower or causes you high stress then do the hotel room. The idea of giving it is much more stressful than the getting it part.
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Apartment air bnb?
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My son that lives alone is clearly having more trouble mentally with quarantining than the other kids that around with spouses/SOs. Thankfully his very small office is open again a couple of days a week and has a 100% mask policy. (Actually small number of folks all with their own offices and a fairly large open space).
Hang in there. If you can’t stay away 100% then set time limits and just don’t respond. Take care.
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Is anyone aware of locations which are releasing data such as age/sex/zip code for specific COVID deaths? I have seen news stories which mention that a person of a certain age has died in a certain zip code, so this data is out there and not being completely withheld.
My non-expert interpretation of your symptoms makes me lean way more towards stress and poor sleep than it does asymptomatic COVID-19. Take a break from the politics threads for a week, or from UP entirely. I did so in May and it helped my mental state tremendously.
Maybe evaluate your sleeping habits, routine, etc. See if you can improve that area of your life some as it has a huge impact on everything else.
Take care of yourself and get your head back to where you want it to be. The forum will be here if/when you want to return to the misery.
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E Rod now listed as out for the season due to heart complications from CV-19. I mean this is definitely just like the flu.
I’ve been considering getting off FB for a year. Two things keep me on.
I’m in a group where they match runners with special needs children. I’ve been a buddy to a girl in MN for the last 5 years. I’ve thought about PM’ing her mom (her mom is the one that post for her in the group) and letting them know I will be deactivating FB but want to keep in touch. We already send each other Bday and Christmas gifts. I think I am going to be doing this soon.
I have a huge family and it’s the way we do party and event invites. I’m sure my Mom would keep me up to date whenever a new event pops up.
I know these are just excuses. I need to deactivate it. A couple years ago I un-followed every person in my friend list so I don’t really have much of a feed anyways and don’t spend a lot of time on it.
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The headline is pretty misleading, since the article claims that mass transit has not been a superspreader in places currently where everyone wears masks, can distance from each other, has good air circulation, etc.
Obviously, the NYC subways in March were the opposite of this, as were most mass transit systems before COVID.
Hate to derail and tbh this is probably worthy of its own thread, but deactivating FB in early 2018 was easily one of the best decisions of my life. 2+ years later I feel less social anxiety, have improved my time and focus management, and a much stronger understanding of what I value in a friend. The relationships I have made an effort to keep are stronger now than ever before and I’ve found it easier to eliminate toxic people from my life.
I used many of the same excuses I’m seeing ITT to keep using it longer than I initially would have liked. While I’m sure I may have missed out on some events or messages from old acquaintances, it wasn’t too hard to let the people closest to me know that I was gone from the site and to provide alternative contacts. Definitely believe the pros have far outweighed the cons. When I still see friends scrolling through their phones during every second of down time it just makes me so happy to be free from that. It really is an addiction for a large amount of its userbase.
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I use it purely for family. I follow less than 20 people and none of them ever talk about politics. I only check in every few days.
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Are you in Montreal?
Nope in the eastern parts of Germany.
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I’m still feeling good about most of the people here on the NH seacoast. Went to the supermarket yesterday morning. Saw at least 20 customers–all masked up.
Masks are recommended but not legally mandated.
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Take care of yourself cuse. I’ll miss your posts ITT but focusing on yourself needs to take precedent over obsessing over the 24/7 news cycle. You know what you need to do for yourself and the people around you and nothing is gonna change until there are some more medical breakthroughs. Set up a simple and sustainable lifestyle for the current times and keep the faith that so many people out there are working their ass off every single day for a vaccine/treatments.
IMO your reactions are totally normal given the current circumstances. When I was at my lowest I felt very similarly to how it seems you do right now–to the point where I was barely sleeping because the thoughts in my head were constantly racing and all over the place–I truly thought I might be starting to go crazy and this was pre COVID! Can’t imagine how much worse I would have been with pandemic stress on top of all of that. Quitting social media and alcohol really helped me regain focus and clarity. Feel free to PM me if you ever need a friend or feel the desire to discuss any of this further.
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Sorry to beat the same drum twice in a couple of days but when we are averaging close to 1200 per day, it doesn’t take a model to predict 20,000 in the next 3 weeks.
Maths. Grrrr
https://twitter.com/k_jeanpierre/status/1289911235027193867?s=21
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