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Post by DarknessFish on Mar 20, 2020 21:00:54 GMT
Just had the weird experience of rushing round to a tiny restaurant to support some friends who only opened about a year ago, and are now being forced to shut down. Of course, they had already bought all the food necessary for Mother's Day, and now have to shift the lot of it without any notice from the government. We might not exactly have helped the lockdown, but it seems practically pointless round here yet.
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Post by Playground LEVINE on Mar 20, 2020 21:40:59 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2020 23:26:39 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2020 23:55:50 GMT
I have told my kids that their grandmother may not make it through this thing - she lives in a senior facility and those places seem to be getting especially hard if any workers test positive and it makes its way around.
I've been checking in with her, but haven't been able to reach her the last couple phone calls.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2020 1:13:50 GMT
I don't know, I read so much about this thing. The experts and wannabee experts all trying to rationalize it and explain it like it's one big problem solving exercise, like a particularly fiendish Sukudo. Swapping statistics or finding comfort and meaning in a line on a graph....this should happen, that should happen, look at Singapore, look at the Chinese. But none of this addresses how we feel, the huge existential dread at the heart of this experience, the terror that things will never be the same again. That's the one thing no one wants to talk about.
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Post by Playground LEVINE on Mar 21, 2020 1:19:12 GMT
Yeah, I feel that too, G.
I understand that that's one aspect the media doesn't want to represent, tho'. It wouldn't help anyone to propagate fear. But everyone's feeling it.
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Post by Playground LEVINE on Mar 21, 2020 1:23:13 GMT
Have you been following Garry B on Facebook? He reckons he's come down with it, he's been providing daily updates. It's been a few days now. He's feeling like shit but thinks the worst is over now.
In some ways, altho' I feel terribly sorry for him and hope he's fully recovered soon, it's reassuring to know that this - for most people - is 'just' a very bad case of flu. It's not going to eliminate millions of people indiscriminately like some evil plague. We just have to be reasonably careful, use common sense.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2020 1:30:25 GMT
Have you been following Garry B on Facebook? He reckons he's come down with it, he's been providing daily updates. It's been a few days now. He's feeling like shit but thinks the worst is over now. In some ways, altho' I feel terribly sorry for him and hope he's fully recovered soon, it's reassuring to know that this - for most people - is 'just' a very bad case of flu. It's not going to eliminate millions of people indiscriminately like some evil plague. We just have to be reasonably careful, use common sense. Yeah I have been. It's the first detailed account I'd read of what it actually feels like ( although he hasn't been officially diagnosed) and I was very grateful to get that honesty and clarity because I'd not found that kind of detail previously. Hopefully he's on the mend.
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Post by tory on Mar 21, 2020 9:09:29 GMT
I'd read that too.
This is going to be a life-defining moment for everyone. Historic in a way that the first half of the 20th century was in lots of ways. To be honest it feels like we've been sheltered for far too long from anything particularly traumatic. We've been lucky really.
Nows the time to speak to your neighbours, friends and family and value them properly.
There's going to be some good from this even though it is going to be very, very hard for lots of people.
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Post by Playground LEVINE on Mar 21, 2020 9:33:33 GMT
To be honest it feels like we've been sheltered for far too long from anything particularly traumatic. We've been lucky really. I definitely agree with this. I wonder how long people can behave themselves.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2020 9:33:34 GMT
You sound as if you're looking forward to it!
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Post by Playground LEVINE on Mar 21, 2020 9:41:04 GMT
Me?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2020 9:48:21 GMT
Tory...we posted at the same time.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2020 10:30:36 GMT
My Facebook feed is full of people sanctimoniously condemning anyone who has stepped out of the house. One (ex) bcber is getting very irate because he caught his dad going to the local shop to get eggs "Dad you're going to kill us all!". I mean Jesus..
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2020 10:45:44 GMT
People are scared, in denial, frightened, confused, pissed off, in disbelief, cranky, lost, there's a whole bundle of emotions going on.
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