#pandemic life

[s-leary]

— “US public health after covid-19: learning from the failures of the hollow state and racial capitalism” by Justin Feldman and Mary Bassett, not pulling any punches on drained pool politics and US health care

[oldguydoesstuff]

A throwback to 2020, when like everyone I guess my kids and I were constantly playing Animal Crossing to maintain our sanity during the pandemic.

Not to be competitive but I still believe my island had the superior highway system. The kids questioned the aesthetic. But I felt it was necessary so Tom Nook could maintain one-day delivery.

[spooniestrong]

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[giriduck]

Bo-Katan: How do you eat when other people are around?

Din Djarin: You don’t. When you get your food, you find a place to take off your helmet and eat alone.

Me: Mandelorian helmets are like N95s.

Husband: It is the way.

[frogizz]

A few weeks ago, my mom asked me who I consider my best friend. Now my view on what a best friend is has changed a lot in the last few years. I've gone through a lot when it's come to friends, I think a lot of people have over the pandemic.

But I told my mom it wasn't my boyfriend but someone who's just always been supportive to me, checks in on me, and is like a big sibling to me. She was surprised that I didn't say my boyfriend. Yeah he's a best friend, I can't just choose one best friend, I have multiple. It just feels so elementary school to have only one best friend when you have multiple close friends.

I guess there's always at least one person you just drift closer to for a certain amount of time. But I guess a best friend means that we can talk to each other about weird, serious, and even scary things. When we see each other we can smile, wave, announce each other's arrivals even, just be happy to see each other.

There's way more to that, but that's all I can define. A best friend is someone who I can rely on and feel safe with. I know the people who I see as my best friend won't see me as their "ultimate best friend" and that's okay. As long as I'm their friend, that's okay with me.

How has the pandemic changed your relationships? (be vague, or detailed, idc)

[caelenath]

I feel like a stranger everywhere.

[remembertheplunge]

More from my 3/18/2020. Wednesday 2:33am journal entry:

I bet DUI arrests were down to zero post St Patrick’s day (yesterday). 2:45am. Bars would have been closed 45 minutes. Now, post Corona Virus lockdown, they never opened./// Wonder how much drinking is going on at home? The Grocery Store Liquor aisle is the hungry ghost’s new King! So glad that I’m sober through this. My sister even sited my “Not Drinking” as a reason I will probably survive this. That, and “you are in good shape”.///There is no cure or vaccine for CV20.///It’s amazing how scared I am. Does everyone feel this fear?/// But, I also feel calm.///end of this part of the entry

Note: one definition of “hungry ghost” is that a person greedy in life and not willing to share food with those in need will, after death, come back as a hungry ghost. My take on this is that when the bars died due to Covid lockdown, drinkers, hungry ghosts for alcohol, had to resort to liquor aisles.

[queenofthedorks]

The candle reviews on Amazon during COVID surges say otherwise. Though I guess something not smelling like anything is urgent.

weird how no one ever comments on the absence of smells unprompted. the nose just isn't a topic of conversation unless it's urgent huh

[ideasmithy]

Notes From The Newly Diagnosed - Depressed & Anxious

I was diagnosed. I'm still the same person. Or am I? I have new words. And as I lose the ones that were longtime mine, I grasp them to cope.

I was diagnosed with anxiety and depression. The simplest way to say it is the only way. Like ripping off a bandage. That is how I have powered through life, head-on, shedding dead weight. Powerful. Fearless. Strong. And I feel like none of those things anymore. It might have been caused by the double dose of COVID I had in a short span of time Or the coronavirus may just have been the last…

[calltoamentor]

Changing Your Life in Times of Plague

Daily writing promptHow have you adapted to the changes brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic?View all responses I started this journey amidst a simultaneous global pandemic and personal crisis of identity. I was at a crossroads of who had been, who I was at the time, and who I wanted to become. Unable to choose a path for myself, I spent the first month or so pacing in a circle at the fork…

[backstepping]

ayo edebiri: the movie reviewer we deserve

and her dad also has an account

[branch-and-root]

Think we’re roaring

So, it is not uncommon for finals week to see a few fire alarms pulled. It’s kind of traditional to get one or two.

It is two days into finals, and nearly every classroom building on central campus has had a fire alarm, and today we seem to be starting over again at the beginning of the list.

Also, the grad students have been striking for three weeks (and getting better at their chants the whole time, baby’s first labor action, they’re so adorable), and last night two got detained by the cops, so today campus was wallpapered with posters denouncing the uni president.

Maintenance has been going through and removing the ones that weren’t posted on an actual posting board.

But the point is, you know, I think we’re reaching the roaring part, the part where everyone is so scared and angry and fed the fuck up that it has to come out somehow.

[mixedupmilly]

The Silver Lining: How Covid Forced Us to Adapt and Improve

Daily writing promptHow have you adapted to the changes brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic?View all responses The Covid-19 pandemic has brought about a significant change in our lives. We have had to adapt to new norms such as wearing masks, social distancing, and limiting our activities including work, family, and education. While everyone has their own thoughts on the matter, I would like to…

[consultingreaders]

You know when you’re reading the A/N of a fic and you think “this has real 2020 energy” and you check the posted date, and, yup. Pre-vaccine fics are a special genre. 

[segernatural]

sure it was a perfect storm of a pressure cooker but i promise destiel was about destiel

[remembertheplunge]

3/21/20 Saturday 9:19pm. people are at a breaking point re: impending virus. My sister said tonight “it’s like a tidal wave”. I think we are all receding into a survival self . “We” are gone. It’s what happened to me when the man held the knife in my face 7/25/2013. (I was robbed at knife point by my car outside of a gym I had just left.) I was gone. Reduced to gut survival.///At Sculpt gym, a man said that neighborhood men were out doing yard work since they can’t leave home. “The yards look nice”. At Home Depot Riverbank today, lots of people buying flowers and planting soil. Why? For their graves? Odd response to looming decimation. ///My sister said to watch videos re: 1918 Spanish flu. People were shot who did not wear a mask. People were barred from traveling Couty to county. End of entry