Coronavirus - Overall
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@mariner4life said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@Virgil also i hope i am not coming across too "woe is me" because i'm in a decent spot. I just know too many people who no longer are.
Nah mate we are all entitled to feel sorry for ourselves and be a bit titchy. No one knows what to feel or what will happen next. It’s all new only thing we can say is we are all in this together.
My new norm... walk in the door after a draining day at work, wife runs over tells me my clothes are contaminated and starts spraying shit all over. Growls at me for rummaging around picking new clothes to wear then tells me off for standing there not getting dressed fast enough.. like what the fuck..
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@Virgil said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@mariner4life said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@Virgil also i hope i am not coming across too "woe is me" because i'm in a decent spot. I just know too many people who no longer are.
Nah mate we are all entitled to feel sorry for ourselves and be a bit titchy. No one knows what to feel or what will happen next. It’s all new only thing we can say is we are all in this together.
My new norm... walk in the door after a draining day at work, wife runs over tells me my clothes are contaminated and starts spraying shit all over. Growls at me for rummaging around picking new clothes to wear then tells me off for standing there not getting dressed fast enough.. like what the fuck..
As if there wasn't enough to get told off about as it is
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@Virgil said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@mariner4life said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@Virgil also i hope i am not coming across too "woe is me" because i'm in a decent spot. I just know too many people who no longer are.
Nah mate we are all entitled to feel sorry for ourselves and be a bit titchy. No one knows what to feel or what will happen next. It’s all new only thing we can say is we are all in this together.
My new norm... walk in the door after a draining day at work, wife runs over tells me my clothes are contaminated and starts spraying shit all over. Growls at me for rummaging around picking new clothes to wear then tells me off for standing there not getting dressed fast enough.. like what the fuck..
the realities dawned on Mrs Mariner for the first time yesterday. I talked to her every day last week, but she obviously just dismissed it.
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@Virgil said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@mariner4life said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@Virgil also i hope i am not coming across too "woe is me" because i'm in a decent spot. I just know too many people who no longer are.
Nah mate we are all entitled to feel sorry for ourselves and be a bit titchy. No one knows what to feel or what will happen next. It’s all new only thing we can say is we are all in this together.
My new norm... walk in the door after a draining day at work, wife runs over tells me my clothes are contaminated and starts spraying shit all over. Growls at me for rummaging around picking new clothes to wear then tells me off for standing there not getting dressed fast enough.. like what the fuck..
It's not that silly though. My wife is changing clothes before coming home for that same reason.
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@mariner4life said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@Virgil said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@mariner4life said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@Virgil also i hope i am not coming across too "woe is me" because i'm in a decent spot. I just know too many people who no longer are.
Nah mate we are all entitled to feel sorry for ourselves and be a bit titchy. No one knows what to feel or what will happen next. It’s all new only thing we can say is we are all in this together.
My new norm... walk in the door after a draining day at work, wife runs over tells me my clothes are contaminated and starts spraying shit all over. Growls at me for rummaging around picking new clothes to wear then tells me off for standing there not getting dressed fast enough.. like what the fuck..
the realities dawned on Mrs Mariner for the first time yesterday. I talked to her every day last week, but she obviously just dismissed it.
Mrs Rembrandt too..except she's had to deal with 6 weeks of my jabbering to finally take it seriously...now the hand sanitisers at the door aren't the work of a crazy germophobe.
Looks like her work has been designated an essential service, good for finances but it does mean we are likely to be getting a visit from Mr Corona at some point by the number of people she will come in close contact with (radiography). Will be good to get on the other side of that.
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@Kirwan said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@Virgil said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@mariner4life said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@Virgil also i hope i am not coming across too "woe is me" because i'm in a decent spot. I just know too many people who no longer are.
Nah mate we are all entitled to feel sorry for ourselves and be a bit titchy. No one knows what to feel or what will happen next. It’s all new only thing we can say is we are all in this together.
My new norm... walk in the door after a draining day at work, wife runs over tells me my clothes are contaminated and starts spraying shit all over. Growls at me for rummaging around picking new clothes to wear then tells me off for standing there not getting dressed fast enough.. like what the fuck..
It's not that silly though. My wife is changing clothes before coming home for that same reason.
Totally makes sense, it’s just slammed into me now and I wasn’t in the mood when I literally crawled in the door..
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I work in tech for a large financial institution so I'm in the weird position where my hours have significantly increased over the past two weeks (have done some 70+ hour weeks) as we attempt to build out our remote access capabilities among a host of other things in response to this.
The long hours have sucked (I'm getting pretty burnt out TBH), and being expected to go into the office at times during a pandemic is less than ideal, but I am truly one of the lucky ones at the moment because I don't have immediate job/financial uncertainty like so many others. And that's just through sheer luck that I happen to work in the right industry at the right time.
I get why the lockdown is needed to protect the health system as we head into winter, but I can't see how we can go much longer than four weeks without destroying people's lives.
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@Rembrandt said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@mariner4life said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@Virgil said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@mariner4life said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@Virgil also i hope i am not coming across too "woe is me" because i'm in a decent spot. I just know too many people who no longer are.
Nah mate we are all entitled to feel sorry for ourselves and be a bit titchy. No one knows what to feel or what will happen next. It’s all new only thing we can say is we are all in this together.
My new norm... walk in the door after a draining day at work, wife runs over tells me my clothes are contaminated and starts spraying shit all over. Growls at me for rummaging around picking new clothes to wear then tells me off for standing there not getting dressed fast enough.. like what the fuck..
the realities dawned on Mrs Mariner for the first time yesterday. I talked to her every day last week, but she obviously just dismissed it.
Mrs Rembrandt too..except she's had to deal with 6 weeks of my jabbering to finally take it seriously...now the hand sanitisers at the door aren't the work of a crazy germophobe.
Looks like her work has been designated an essential service, good for finances but it does mean we are likely to be getting a visit from Mr Corona at some point by the number of people she will come in close contact with (radiography). Will be good to get on the other side of that.
she's been all over the health, but the state of the local economy after this finishes wasn't occuring to her. it is now
and her accounting firm are now very worried. as of yesterday
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My 3 month contract finished at the end of February (after 2.5 years). I was planning taking March off, then trying to find more work.
New plan, applied for a job stacking shelves at a local supermarket, more to have something to do and feel useful rather than sitting on my arse catching up with tv series for the next 6 weeks
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Incidentally for any Aussie based ferners who are out of work and looking for something to tie them over at least in the short term maybe jump on this if its in your area
@raznomore (from memory I think you were one of these? Apologies if I've got that wrong)
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After we all get through this, knocking on wood I wonder what forever changes will remain?
I imagine that international travel will never be the same. (Proof of health, tracing and all that) I also how millennials (and others for that matter) will effect change in the way they think, it's not war time but it is a restriction of freedoms most have never seen before. -
@Hooroo said in Coronavirus - Overall:
After we all get through this, knocking on wood I wonder what forever changes will remain?
I imagine that international travel will never be the same. (Proof of health, tracing and all that) I also how millennials (and others for that matter) will effect change in the way they think, it's not war time but it is a restriction of freedoms most have never seen before.the GFC told me human beings don't learn lessons, and have short memories
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@mariner4life said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@Hooroo said in Coronavirus - Overall:
After we all get through this, knocking on wood I wonder what forever changes will remain?
I imagine that international travel will never be the same. (Proof of health, tracing and all that) I also how millennials (and others for that matter) will effect change in the way they think, it's not war time but it is a restriction of freedoms most have never seen before.the GFC told me human beings don't learn lessons, and have short memories
That didn't affect a lot of people. I didn't have to make one change during GFC and neither did any of my immediate family. I can't even think of any friends that suffered during that time.
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@Hooroo said in Coronavirus - Overall:
After we all get through this, knocking on wood I wonder what forever changes will remain?
I imagine that international travel will never be the same. (Proof of health, tracing and all that) I also how millennials (and others for that matter) will effect change in the way they think, it's not war time but it is a restriction of freedoms most have never seen before.Well I think we're probably back to 2 genders now rather than 67, hoping that lasts for a bit
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@Rembrandt said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@Hooroo said in Coronavirus - Overall:
After we all get through this, knocking on wood I wonder what forever changes will remain?
I imagine that international travel will never be the same. (Proof of health, tracing and all that) I also how millennials (and others for that matter) will effect change in the way they think, it's not war time but it is a restriction of freedoms most have never seen before.Well I think we're probably back to 2 genders now rather than 67, hoping that lasts for a bit
would you fuck up about that stuff? you keep saying this shit! no one cares!
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@mariner4life said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@Hooroo said in Coronavirus - Overall:
After we all get through this, knocking on wood I wonder what forever changes will remain?
I imagine that international travel will never be the same. (Proof of health, tracing and all that) I also how millennials (and others for that matter) will effect change in the way they think, it's not war time but it is a restriction of freedoms most have never seen before.the GFC told me human beings don't learn lessons, and have short memories
I made the same point in a discussion the other day. I think long term, very little will change. I'm not sure it's so much about memories and lessons, but that we are inherently selfish. I don't mean that in a truly nasty way, most people are decent, but our first loyalty is always to our immediate families, then our community. We have a need to "get ahead", to make ourselves secure, to provide for the kids etc. It's pretty evident in the way we approach international aid, the poverty that exists worldwide despite an abundance of global resources.
I think we all go right back to overseas holidays, big mortgages etc.
Appreciate this makes me sound like a Sanders/Corbyn-loving raving socialist, but I'm actually not - I am as or more guilty of the above as anyone.
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@voodoo said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@mariner4life said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@Hooroo said in Coronavirus - Overall:
After we all get through this, knocking on wood I wonder what forever changes will remain?
I imagine that international travel will never be the same. (Proof of health, tracing and all that) I also how millennials (and others for that matter) will effect change in the way they think, it's not war time but it is a restriction of freedoms most have never seen before.the GFC told me human beings don't learn lessons, and have short memories
I made the same point in a discussion the other day. I think long term, very little will change. I'm not sure it's so much about memories and lessons, but that we are inherently selfish. I don't mean that in a truly nasty way, most people are decent, but our first loyalty is always to our immediate families, then our community. We have a need to "get ahead", to make ourselves secure, to provide for the kids etc. It's pretty evident in the way we approach international aid, the poverty that exists worldwide despite an abundance of global resources.
I think we all go right back to overseas holidays, big mortgages etc.
Appreciate this makes me sound like a Sanders/Corbyn-loving raving socialist, but I'm actually not - I am as or more guilty of the above as anyone.
this very much mirrors my thoughts