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.

Comments

[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.