I don't understand why people can't just write this year off and wait until they get vaccinated to attend nonessential gatherings. It's not forever, after all.
I don't understand why people can't just write this year off and wait until they get vaccinated to attend nonessential gatherings. It's not forever, after all.
Originally Posted by JaneV2.0
That is exactly what I think. I’ll just take this year to stay in and have a simple life. Those of us who CAN do it SHOULD do it, anyway. God knows there are plenty of people who cannot do that, those who have to work and school their children and etc.
But all folks in the flower show world who think we must carry on—I just think whaaaaaat? ? It’s not like they are the World War II generation soldiering on, they’re barely my senior. I think being patriotic and “ strong” is, in fact, making necessary adjustments to my life to stay healthy.
Oh I think it's genuinely psychologically hard to live this pandemic, not do much, never be free of fearing the virus in the background etc.. So it takes a toll.
What one will far less readily admit than hey duh many parts of this pandemic kinda suck, and they do, is that there are parts of it one likes and in many ways one Dreads the return to the old normal. Oh sure it will be nice not to fear death around every corner, if not for oneself then for others. But I don't look forward to going to the office every day, buying gas every week to do so (yep it's official like at least 75% of my gas costs were commuting, ha for a job that's only 10 miles away at that - I bought gas every week, I buy it once a month now), traffic, hecticness - this is too much in the other direction, but that life before was crazy hectic. I'm an introvert, this is Too Much introversion for me, but I hate the normal hectic, it's overstimulating, it's draining, I hate always having to be around others and most of the time not able to be myself around them either (have to be work persona and so on). People rushing around and doing what anyway, mostly destructive stuff, that I don't look forward to the return of. But like I said this is too much in the other direction, I'd like not to avoid people Constantly, just much of the time
Trees don't grow on money
That many corporations are embracing (permanent) teleworking is one of the positives to come out of this.
A number of people I know are getting increasingly hostile about me continuing my diving. They bleep about my travels to WI and OH are going to spread it. I’ve had to tell them rather firmly to back off. I’ve also called them hypocrites to their (virtual) faces.
They’re continuing to get together with friends and family. Christmas shopping at the mall or other crowded stores. Big T’giving gatherings and ones planned for Christmas and New Year’s. I continually remind them that private gatherings are the majority reason for the spread now.
I work from home. Occasionally go to socially distanced church. Grocery shop once a week and go to get my scuba tanks filled as needed. And these people are freaking I’m going to spread it. Idiots.
And no, they’re not conservatives. They’re libs.
I think most people are taking the precautions they consider reasonable. I think JP1 needs to come and Visit my block in my very blue city Biden for president signs, black live matter signs, rainbow declarations and etc. abound, and I can point to every household that has had out-of-state vacations by choice, many households with more than one, in the past few months. They use airplanes. Did they comply with each state’s quarantine requirement? I don’t know, but kinda makes you wonder. Again, these are all very liberal political voters.
A close friend, gay and Dem voter, related how he took so many precautions when he flew to California. Stayed three weeks. Stayed mostly in one place to visit our friends. Only they all piled into a car pile and traveled from California to another state to visit another set of our friends.
It’s all OK because he took precautions.
Like I said, everyone thinks they’re taking precautions. It’s silly that we as a society are painting this as a liberal and conservative issue. That’s not what I see in actual practice.
I guess this is as good a place as any to confess that Covid lockdown has given me a disease that I never thought I would have: baby fever
I don’t mean baby fever for humans, I mean I have a yen to get a puppy. I’m really not a puppy person. But there are reasons why in lockdown we could raise a puppy because we have the time and attention to give to a puppy. And they are so cuuuuuuuuute! And my big dog needs another dog around and I theorize he would be less likely to be attacking a baby that he helps to raise. Plus a bulldog is going to get bigger then our current foster mini dog who is old and small and a little fragile.
ANM: " I'd like not to avoid people Constantly, just much of the time." I love it; that should be on a commemorative 2020 t-shirt or something.
IL: Get a puppy! Post lots of pictures!
Everyone is taking what precautions they may consider reasonable, because the guidance from the powers that be is poorly communicated and all abstinence only all the time, when we do get it. There was like a month and a half in the whole pandemic when one was allowed to see anyone outside their household even outdoors here. This is not reasonable.
I don't necessarily believe that most cases are originating in personal gatherings, oh of course I believe personal gatherings can spread covid (esp if inside, undistanced, unmasked). But I suspect the powers that be Don't Actually Know where the cases are originating. Since they have no ability to actually trace superspreader events it seems, even in cases of known superspreader events and people, if the superspreading event or person itself had been missed of course all spread look like it's from family members, anonymous community spread etc., because that is how it spreads afterward. I really have seen little evidence that contract tracing here has revealed any real information on how this is actually spreading. But it does seem to be everywhere now
Trees don't grow on money
Ugh!!!! Housebreaking a dog or child is beyond fun!
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