Commiseration Post #1

[petra]

This post is for your frustrations, irritations, and general venting. Whatever you need to get off your chest about being stuck inside, heap it here.

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[petra]

My first vent is: I hate that my brain has put a countdown on all the material goods in my house. "Oh, only three-quarters of the corned beef left. Well, once that's gone, we'll have to replace it." Any brain hacks for getting yourself to look at the three-quarters-full glass?

[lethe1]

I notice I have begun to use less of food stuffs and products in order not to run out too quickly. For example, I used only half of a large tomato on my bread this morning instead of eating the whole thing (wrapped the other half in clingfilm, to be used tomorrow morning).

That is not necessarily a bad thing, though.

[petra]

I think using less of some things only makes sense, as long as you're not going hungry. I've been doing this too.

[lilysea]

I'm going to be staying inside for weeks/months from 21 March [I'm high risk] but my partner who doesn't live with me refuses to skip his trips into the central business district to use the public library, or to cancel his weekly roleplaying games with friends or his weekly film night with friends.

Which means I won't be able to see him!

and I live alone, and won't be seeing anyone ELSE either! :(

[petra]

Ugh. I'm sorry. That sounds both lonely and infuriating, since he's choosing the friends and risk over you and your safety.

[lilysea]

Yes!

And he's 60 years old and asthmatic, so it's not like he's zero risk himself!

also the friend who comes to film nights is a first aid volunteer at crowd events for St John Ambulance/trainee paramedic so she is high risk, and her daughter who lives with her comes to the roleplaying games...

[petra]

*facepalms* I wish your partner was listening to your concerns. They're valid and sensible.

[lilysea]

Thank you! ^_^

Oh, and two of the other friends at the roleplaying games?

A man who catches the train to/from work every day, on the train line that services a major public hospital with a COVID fever clinic [and lots of people catch the train to/from the hospital because parking is a nightmare]

A woman who works at a bookshop = ALL THE PUBLIC CONTACT

[petra]

So on top of being annoyed that you don't get to see him, you also get the trouble of worrying about him because of his choices. I can see why this is bothering you!

[sulien]

So sorry to hear your significant other is being such a selfish asshat. :( I hope you manage to avoid the virus entirely and that he continues to keep making his IRL luck checks and saving throws while being such a complete fool.

[lilysea]

He was complaining bitterly today that the public libraries have been closed and I was thinking

"Thank goodness they've closed the libraries! You wouldn't listen when I begged you not to catch the train into the city centre to go to the library..."

[lethe1]

Ugh, so sorry to hear that! Is Skyping (with him, and/or with friends) an option?

My SO doesn't live with me either, but since I am coughing and sniffing, I don't want him to come see me, just in case.

I got the impression at first that he didn't take COVID-19 too seriously (f.e., kept going to the gym until it closed), but he is more careful now.

[minoanmiss]

I'm currently too busy feeling bad because of the surgery to worry properly about the virus. I just read that my painkiller of choice (ibuprofen) would be very bad to take while ill with covid-19, so I'm trying to decide if I should continue taking it or just stay sore and grumpy.

Tomorrow I not only go back to work (fortunately from home) but need to do a project. I don't wanna.

[petra]

I don't think the virus needs you to worry about it; it's doing okay on its own. As for whether you should mix NSAIDs and COVID-19, I think as long as you're not expressing symptoms of the latter, you're probably okay. But what do I know?

I hope that going back to work and starting your project take your mind off of your ouches and worries rather than exacerbating them.

[lethe1]

But do you suspect you are ill with COVID-19? If you have no symptoms, you can probably safely take ibuprofen.

[minoanmiss]

There's the asymptomatic incubation period, though, where one is infected but before the symptoms start. Not least since going to have surgery meant going to the microbial disco club that is a hospital, I didn't want to risk it.

(Thank you for the encouragement, though. :)

[petra]

Ah, that's true. I'd forgotten you'd had to go to the hospital lately. My fault entirely.

[mific]

I reckon you'll be okay taking ibuprofen - looks like the warning against it may be fake news: https://www.factcheck.org/2020/03/no-evidence-to-back-covid-19-ibuprofen-concerns/?platform=hootsuite, and there's no real evidence it'd be harmful.

[mific]

I thought of this with the recent prompt about pandemic art that's stayed with us. But I think positive art was meant, and this is anything but, powerful though it is. It's a manip I stumbled on over at tumblr, of Goya's painting 'Saturn devouring his children'. You can guess who replaces Saturn. Warnings for horror, gore, and the evil orange pufferfish.
https://worldzzend.tumblr.com/post/622442484565409792/im-just-sayin

[petra]

Ouch, that's really effective. Thanks for the link!