Coronavirus, Covid 19 Discussion and How It Has Affected Your Daily Life Chat Thread

[ChocolateMouse]

I know my partner - native NYer - is pretty effected by it. He was in primary school near by when it happened and everything went on lockdown there. He still remembers how upsetting it was ofc.

I was pretty wee still and spent the day playing Uno with my mom - I guess she really wanted a distraction and a board-game obsessed kid was perfect for it. The TV was on in the background all day and I just wasn't paying much attention. Two years later I took an early clickbait "what's your darkest secret" quiz and got the result "You played Uno on 9/11! Whatever else happened that day, you spent it goofing off and honestly had a pretty good time.". Kinda wigged me out.

The war that followed was pretty devastating though and hit closer to home. I knew several people who ended up fighting in it because they were in the military for financial reasons and regretted every moment. It went on so long that people who were just kids like me at the time ended up fighting in it. It was a damn shame and we should work to build healthier, more peaceful relations world-wide so it never happens again. Our nation should always be a force for good whenever we can make it so.

Edit; A cousin of mine posted today "I want people to remember the ripples, not just the stone". I feel like I have that same energy today, and I hope other people can do just that.

 

[Marie2020]

Yes I can, thank you so much

Wishing you safely and sending you my love. I only wish I could do more to help you all

 

[LadiesAndJane]

19 years ago today I was working in the emergency room when the first plane struck. I was in California at the time, at a level one trauma center, so the whole hospital and emergency department was put on high alert because we didn’t know what was going on and if more planes or more attacks would occur. I was not able to see any footage until 48 hours after the event as I was on shift. When I finally was able to see it, and of course everyone who had seen it was talking about it, it was shocking and still unbelievable. It was like watching a scene from a movie. The scene that still is etched in my mind to this day is of the people who were jumping out of the building in an act of desperation. We lost so many that day and it is of course well to remember how everyone came together as a country.
We have lost almost 200,000 people because of this current pandemic and I only wish we could come together as a country now as well. Get over our differences and use all our energy to defeat the coronavirus.
I know we can do it, I have faith in us!

 

[electrycmonk]

Well, this morning at 8:30AM got another email. A 4th positive Covid-19-mare confirmed in district.

One of the "staff" is supposedly a coach.
Rumor mill has this most resent a HS cheerleader.

 

[ChocolateMouse]

Partner made brownies today. D&D tonight - my characters are in a swamp filled with undead trying to break an evil crystal that's making the undead. One player has a secret mission to keep the crystal safe. None of them know that the crystal is secretly a phylactery, a gemstone with the soul of an powerful necromancer lich. And that the necromancer is actually the giant dinosaur skeleton that the undead village is built around. A dino-lich if you will.
I slept poorly and we haven't gotten to play in two weeks so we'll see how this goes.

 

[LadiesAndJane]

Partner made brownies today. D&D tonight - my characters are in a swamp filled with undead trying to break an evil crystal that's making the undead. One player has a secret mission to keep the crystal safe. None of them know that the crystal is secretly a phylactery, a gemstone with the soul of an powerful necromancer lich. And that the necromancer is actually the giant dinosaur skeleton that the undead village is built around. A dino-lich if you will.
I slept poorly and we haven't gotten to play in two weeks so we'll see how this goes.

Hope you have fun!

 

[Beer can]

Hey Everybody - Have you put out your flag, yet?

Always have one out all year since 911. Once in awhile I have to take it down when it gets wore, I can't leave it up when it gets a little tattered. Makes me real sad until I get new one flying in the wind.

 

[Beer can]

Really didn't talk about 911 yesterday. Did today discussing something totally unrelated with DW , and our 16yr DD mentioned kids her generation really haven't been through anything serious besides what the see on their phones or social media. I said well we didn't have social media or cell phones then and hadn't been through anything like 911 either.
I looked at DW and said dang that was such a long time ago, and then at the same time we both said but feels like yesterday.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Have a 19-yo GD, born a little over a month before 9-11 so of course has no direct memory of it, but has learned about it in school. Nineteen years, a lifetime ago. But I still can't talk about it. I was in NM at the time. A friend called, said turn on your TV. What channel? Doesn't matter, she said. What's going on? We're at war. With whom? Don't know yet... I don't remember the rest of the conversation. Just the images. I still feel sick, thinking about it. I still tear up. Flight 93 went down within ten miles of a horse ranch I had worked at five years earlier, must have flown right over it. I was so scared. What might happen next? President Bush gave just the right speech, confident, courageous, reassuring. We'd been hit, we'd been hurt, but we'll be okay. We'll get through this together. We are one. We are strong. We are America.

 

[Beer can]

Not posting this as political, just something to think about. First time we went into the Middle East I was in high school in the '90s. Summer of '94 I went to Fort Leonard Wood Missouri Army boot camp joined the national guard. Signed up for six yrs active and two inactive. I was still in inactive reserves when 911 happened. Was pretty sure I was going. Never did. Few of my friends I grew up with did, luckily they all made it back. I was always for it back then. Now? IDK?
Our kids were there when I was in high school, now I have kids already have and soon to graduate high school... and our kids are still over there...