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

[BigBlueHen53]

I'm sad too. I can't talk to my youngest sister any more. She was closest to me in age, spent much of our childhood together and we always got along well till the subject comes up.
I hadn't spoken to her in about 6 months time when I called her. It was a good conversation till I told her that my wife was sick and we were concerned it was Covid-19. She put me on hold and went to get a list of treatments I should give her.
I waited and when she listed them I knew right away where she got the list. I heard the words hydroxychloroquine, hot pepper, garlic, alcohol, etc..
I interrupted her and said, "I'm not going to give her anything that liar suggested."
She immediately hung up and won't talk to me again. It is a shame when you can't have a discussion with your sister.

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=384904412591377

mask study

I equate this situation with when kids experience war. Like that in Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, South Sudan, Northern Ireland and Beirut.
I had a "War and Peace" professor who wrote a book about children of war, studying the effects of the Ireland and Beirut conflicts. One thing I remember from one of his lectures was that the children he interviewed said they couldn't sleep unless they hear bombing because that was normal for them.
You look at survivors of the holocaust and the killing fields of the Khmer Rouge and in adulthood, they seem pretty well adjusted. So there is always hope.

I'm so sorry, CC. Loss of relationships may truly be this disease's highest and most painful cost.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Can somebody just define "reaction video" for us techno-dummies and now cultural dummies?

 

[ChocolateMouse]

Can somebody just define "reavtion video" for us techno-dummies and now cultural dummies?

"Reaction Videos" are videos where people are filmed watching, and/or reacting to, other videos and experiences. Some of them make sense like "Little kids react to weird food" or "Teens react to old technology!" or "Celebrity reacts to a parody of that celebrity".
Some of them are just kinda dumb though like "Random person watched an internet video and reacts to it". And usually they're acting up for the camera A LOT, like reality TV.

Here's a video from a really famous group who does nothing but these videos and makes mad dollars from it. o_o;

 

[ChocolateMouse]

Ok! Progress on Yule presents! I have 8 of these bars of soap. 8) A very BIG improvement over the LAST crystal soaps I made. I have enough soap base left to make about 10 more. Lavender scented with a lil tea tree for antimicrobial properties and to enhance the lavender.

 

[Pandemic pandemonia]

Littlebrownie, we have "curfews" and "please don't go out" orders too.... Does yours have enforcement? Because our curfew just got extended and still has no enforcement.

Here the city has restrictions and are requiring businesses to have customers mask but they have people who come into the stores without them and declare they don't need them the election is over and stuff. I guess the businesses are being fined if they allow people to do that but usually they try and then just get them what they want and out of the store as quickly as possible.

 

[Pandemic pandemonia]

Here the city has restrictions and are requiring businesses to have customers mask but they have people who come into the stores without them and declare they don't need them the election is over and stuff. I guess the businesses are being fined if they allow people to do that but usually they try and then just get them what they want and out of the store as quickly as possible.

My son works at a hardware store and he said they say to customers that they have masks if they want one but they do not tell them to leave there at his store. He works there but isn't the boss. I have not heard of any fines being given to businesses like they said if they do not enforce the rules about masking but I'm not really that well informed. Other stores also have the signs up and do about the same thing one even has workers with masks dangling of their faces and not covering their nose or mouth. That made me really mad. One gas station that has a very small area inside has the cashier working with no mask and a bunch of people going in to buy little snacks and pay for gas total germ room in my opinion. I did not go back there.

 

[electrycmonk]

Okay ... it's officially "tomorrow." Where's that story?

Okay... So another short story from my UNT days in the dorms.....
So ....cue the squiggly horizontal lines on the screen from old school TV as we fade back in time....

Meanwhile, full-time studies at UNT, living in 'Bruce Hall' and jokingly known as "the old man" of the hall, taking the 2nd semester of the two part Theatre history class. Along with teaching Astronomy labs, and dealing with the *worry* for the upcoming Y2K *F*E*A*R*... Having had some hard stuff happen 2 summers before when I lost 2 grandfather's... 2 weeks apart.

Often the lobby was filled with a couple solid "circles of friends" just like the cliché family room..... Talking about many deep topics at litterally any hour of the day, night, or wee hours of the morning!

In context, history just doesn't have a solid flavor of humour to its textbooks. The only ones that barely starts to broach this topic is the Theatre history textbooks that document plays. RTVF have a parallel with their textbooks with documenting movies and TV shows as well as radio shows....

I was walking in the entrance to the dorm after the nights labs at the observatory, it was about 1AM, the usual suspects where having a talk/debate/heavily sarcastic laugh about history and the idea of what would be funny the morning of January first....

Then I sat down and kinda got a "brief, if laughable clift notes".... Banter continues for a good hour plus, it's at least 2:30AM....
Folks are starting to head to bed... As do I....

I'm waking up the next morning, getting around... Post my W.O.P.O.T.D. on livejournal then grab my Unicycle, backpack and head to the cafeteria for breakfast before theatre history class....

Sitting at the big round table, thinking about the two extremes: comedy and tragedy...
I start to think about timing....
Classes occur....
Time to return for lunch.....
Wander in and join several and I'm still thinking about this differential....
I bring up the episode of the "Johnny Carson's Tonight show" that had actually talked in the monologue about when was the safe time to start making jokes about the space shuttle blowing up after it's launch.... And how the NASA acronym was now morbidly funny: Need another Seven Astronauts

That's when I came across with and said....
The idea (given the physics classes had also added to my thoughts as to this topic)
.... It's an equation that is always in flux.
The one element that seperates these two "ideas" ... Comedy and tragedy stories are seperated by *time*.... Morbid humour. Black humour. Sarcastic humour. Death humour. All this stuff is eventually something someone will laugh at, it just depends on how much *time* it takes to shift to a topic that can be laughed about.

So, around dinner time I started to share this .....

Then a few years later... 2003, and when this shuttle accident over Texas happened a few of us wondered when the 1st jokes will start to show up from this event..... That's when I was able to bring up this equation again and it definitely had a lot more traction and no one saw any disagreement on this idea.....

... @electrymonk, only 35 minutes????

(Movie quote reply, "Laugh it up fuzzball.")

(Sideways glance & wagging index finger)
"You know, I've a track record of insomnia posts here silly....."

 

[BigBlueHen53]

I'm soooooo sorry, BigBlueHen.

You are, obviously, NOT the one who's stupid. Which is easy for me to say but doesn't do anything about your social isolation.

I hope we can be company to you until this is over and this insult can be forgotten or put away for the sake of a social relationship.

In any case, you're doing the RIGHT thing to support your chances of being around then! I hope your friend is luckier than she is bright.

thanks, Rainey. BYC is pretty much my life right now. That and becoming a much better cook!

 

[ChocolateMouse]

(Movie quote reply, "Laugh it up fuzzball.")

(Sideways glance & wagging index finger)
"You know, I've a track record of insomnia posts here silly....."

I mean, I do too. XD What better time to be on a chicken keeping forum than 2AM, hours after your bedtime?

 

[BigBlueHen53]

"Reaction Videos" are videos where people are filmed watching, and/or reacting to, other videos and experiences. Some of them make sense like "Little kids react to weird food" or "Teens react to old technology!" or "Celebrity reacts to a parody of that celebrity".
Some of them are just kinda dumb though like "Random person watched an internet video and reacts to it". And usually they're acting up for the camera A LOT, like reality TV.

Here's a video from a really famous group who does nothing but these videos and makes mad dollars from it. o_o;

Oh, got it, thanks.