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The Batlord · 04-19-2020, 02:41 PM

Math is pretty lame tbh.

rostasi · 04-19-2020, 06:15 PM

Really wanted to help out the small restaurants that I like,
so I decided to go out to pick up food tonight for the first time
in about 6 weeks. Most people are being pretty good keeping
off the roads, so that was encouraging. It's probably because
they don't have as many places to go. Been good about having
a set area in the kitchen for disinfecting things and I've heard
from friends who've listened to my advice say that it's helped
them be more focused (eh, hem... "mindful") on disinfecting
stuff when doing stuff that they usually take for granted.
A designated area beside the kitchen sink with supplies
right there, so there's less movement and so on.

The Batlord · 04-19-2020, 06:19 PM

All this makes me wonder how people changed the way they lived during and after the Spanish Flu or the Bubonic Plague. You see plenty in general history books on the effects of lives lost during those times but basically nothing on how people adapted to living in a world with a deadly disease.

rostasi · 04-19-2020, 06:42 PM

Lengthy, but a good read.. (It’s from 2010).

OccultHawk · 04-19-2020, 07:32 PM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

All this makes me wonder how people changed the way they lived during and after the Spanish Flu or the Bubonic Plague. You see plenty in general history books on the effects of lives lost during those times but basically nothing on how people adapted to living in a world with a deadly disease.

Hesse describes the flagellants in Narcissus and Goldmund. Of course it’s fiction but the flagellants were real. They walked from town to town whipping themselves until their backs were ripped raw with chunks of missing skin. They entered churches during services and started up with all that self flagellation and skin and blood splattering all about and the congregations fell to their feet in adoration. Besides that people became obsessed with hell and damnation and figured if God had it like that in this life what chance did they have in the next. And many others turned to the classic in a crisis favorite and started killing Jews.

OccultHawk · 04-19-2020, 10:23 PM

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Originally Posted by elphenor

must...go...to 7/11 at 11pm and buy Doritos and beer

-entire city of Austin

Man. I used to think Austin was cool. I guess Texas is Texas and America is still America. I had it in my imagination that people there weren’t morons but nope same as all over.

Lucem Ferre · 04-19-2020, 10:43 PM

They should run a delivery service.

rostasi · 04-19-2020, 10:43 PM

When I said earlier that I was thinking that most people were being pretty good keeping off the roads and that I found it encouraging, I didn't mention that I would drive by, let's say, a park or a walking trail leading out of a park and see people walking within inches of total strangers - almost none of them with masks. So, maybe the conclusion is that people aren't driving on the roads, not because they're being sensible, but rather that they can't really go to those places that are now closed and choose to congregate in parks because of their fucking tribal urge to rub their stiffeningly erect egos up against other people's soft underbellies.

OccultHawk · 04-19-2020, 10:56 PM

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Originally Posted by elphenor

my hatred is seething

go away go away go away go away

I can kick people out for not wearing a mask though

**** is not optional here by law, but there needs to be a curfew

America already has 40,000 deaths but, you know, freedom. Wouldn’t want to actually enforce a law. People might start dying or something. Don’t tread on me. Hey I’m just going to store it’s not like I’m hurting anybody.

**Frownland** · 04-20-2020, 09:02 AM

Calendar: Today.
Me: Nice.

04-19-2020, 06:15 PM	#68422 (permalink)
rostasi . Join Date: Aug 2012 Posts: 4,008	Really wanted to help out the small restaurants that I like, so I decided to go out to pick up food tonight for the first time in about 6 weeks. Most people are being pretty good keeping off the roads, so that was encouraging. It's probably because they don't have as many places to go. Been good about having a set area in the kitchen for disinfecting things and I've heard from friends who've listened to my advice say that it's helped them be more focused (eh, hem... "mindful") on disinfecting stuff when doing stuff that they usually take for granted. A designated area beside the kitchen sink with supplies right there, so there's less movement and so on. Last edited by rostasi; 04-19-2020 at 06:26 PM.

04-19-2020, 06:42 PM	#68424 (permalink)
rostasi . Join Date: Aug 2012 Posts: 4,008	Lengthy, but a good read.. (It’s from 2010). Last edited by rostasi; 04-19-2020 at 06:57 PM.

04-20-2020, 09:02 AM	#68430 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	Calendar: Today. Me: Nice. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

04-19-2020, 10:43 PM	#68428 (permalink)
rostasi . Join Date: Aug 2012 Posts: 4,008	When I said earlier that I was thinking that most people were being pretty good keeping off the roads and that I found it encouraging, I didn't mention that I would drive by, let's say, a park or a walking trail leading out of a park and see people walking within inches of total strangers - almost none of them with masks. So, maybe the conclusion is that people aren't driving on the roads, not because they're being sensible, but rather that they can't really go to those places that are now closed and choose to congregate in parks because of their fucking tribal urge to rub their stiffeningly erect egos up against other people's soft underbellies.