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Animal-Mother posted:what's their yakety-sax-as-the-towers-fall video? ours as the people in their 30s and 40s during COVID was for sure the HCA's
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Jelly posted:There's a fine line between getting the vaccine and not getting the vaccine. Pretty wild take to get all red and nude about drunk driving imo, if you wear a seatbelt you've done your duty
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:Pretty wild take to get all red and nude about drunk driving imo, if you wear a seatbelt you've done your duty I see this thread is firmly into "what strained covid comparisons can I use to own someone" territory now.
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satanic splash-back posted:I see this thread is firmly into "what strained covid comparisons can I use to own someone" territory now. Does that not count as an early covid thing
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Did anyone mention yoga yet? Because like a lot of people I learned basic yoga out of sheer boredom but I still do yoga a couple days a week because yoga owns and I'm glad I discovered it even if the circumstances sucked
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I remember being warned about this by friends in China. I remember feeling like a nutter buying a bunch of n95 masks. Just in case. Just so I can say I was prepared and did something. But I’ll never need them. Then cases happened in the US and I left for work that Friday knowing I would refuse to come in on Monday. Thinking I could get fired or people would think I was weird. Sort of normal Friday. Everyone acted normal. Monday nobody went into the office and that Friday was actually my last normal workday with co workers and all that to this day two or so years later.
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The government of a Canadian province officially endorsed glory holes as a covid-safer method for getting your gently caress on
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The brainiacs of Instacart allow customers to request that their shopper just leave the delivery at the front door, but if they buy cold/flu medication, the shopper must scan their ID to verify the customer is over 18. Thus forcing their employees to interact face-to-face with customers who are specifically too sick to go to the grocery store and are buying flu/covid medication, but not customers who aren’t buying flu/cold medication. I’m sure that the owners of Instacart don’t give two fucks about their employees though, so they probably don’t care.
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Sucrose posted:The brainiacs of Instacart allow customers to request that their shopper just leave the delivery at the front door, but if they buy cold/flu medication, the shopper must scan their ID to verify the customer is over 18. Thus forcing their employees to interact face-to-face with customers who are specifically too sick to go to the grocery store and are buying flu/covid medication, but not customers who aren’t buying flu/cold medication. They care about avoiding lawsuits and fines
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Elephant Ambush posted:Did anyone mention yoga yet? Because like a lot of people I learned basic yoga out of sheer boredom but I still do yoga a couple days a week because yoga owns and I'm glad I discovered it even if the circumstances sucked Out here it was just having kids
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JetSetGo posted:The streets being empty of nearly all traffic. Felt like some real apocalyptic poo poo cause where I live its super densely populated.
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i remember the subways slowing become more and more empty as the days went by. the streets in midtown nyc were empty during the day. by the end of march 202 (when i ended up losing my job) there was pretty much only a few people in my regular subway car during rush hour. at the hotel i worked in, the occupancy was 5%, and it was mostly europeans that couldn't travel home. i wasn't there for it, but when the hotel shut down i was told they had to call the police to remove the guests who had nowhere to go.
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I so miss covid driving. Largely empty roads and a nice quick transit to wherever I was going.
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Elephant Ambush posted:Did anyone mention yoga yet? Because like a lot of people I learned basic yoga out of sheer boredom but I still do yoga a couple days a week because yoga owns and I'm glad I discovered it even if the circumstances sucked I did it once, my gf made me stop because of all the noises I made.
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Tarkus posted:I so miss covid driving. Largely empty roads and a nice quick transit to wherever I was going. I already touched on deserted roads when I was working, but before Covid, my drive time to and from work was an hour round trip. When everything shut down, my round trip commute was half of that; it was so nice not having traffic and stupid drivers on the roads.
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:Out here it was just having kids Or learning how to make bread. I only know one couple that ended up with a COVID baby which was kind of funny because they were talking about having another before COVID hit, decided to hold off until things got sorted out just to get pregnant like a week we went to WFH.
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Not sure if this is early COVID or already mentioned: Smoking real cigarettes, again. Pre-Covid, public smoking seemed to have largely vanished in my area. A lot of vaping, e-cigs, etc. But traditional cigarettes seemed largely vanished. Since Covid started? I seemed to notice people lighting up a hell of a lot more. I'm sure there was a lot of factors at play for it, though. Social isolation, stress, no longer being trapped in situations that prevented you from smoking in the first place, etc.
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Lazyfire posted:Or learning how to make bread. I only know one couple that ended up with a COVID baby which was kind of funny because they were talking about having another before COVID hit, decided to hold off until things got sorted out just to get pregnant like a week we went to WFH. Don't even get me started on the breadmaking craze. I can't imagine how many pounds of flour went into the dumpster because of dumbass panic buying trends. Stuff like toilet paper was vaguely understandable because of supply chain discrepancies between people who were used to spending a good chunk of their awake hours at work vs at home, but flour being sold out in the initial panic buys was so lovely for people who actually cook because it was so transparently obvious the majority of those bags went towards a single instagram post before the people who never liked cooking and were never going to like cooking just went back to ordering uber eats or whatever. This was made clear in the second round of panic buys/shortages when stuff like toilet paper or tissues went out of stock again but flour and various other dried goods were just fine because the idiots that never cooked a day in their life before 2020 still had 19.5 of the 20 pounds they bought a couple months prior. If you could consolidate the waste of everyone pretending to be an amateur baker for 2 months you could probably fill entire landfills with their leftover flour.
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my grocery store was sold out of flour, rice, and beans for a few weeks, but it eventually came back with a 1 per customer limit. the thing that i remember being completely gone for months (other than toilet paper) is yeast.
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ArbitraryC posted:Don't even get me started on the breadmaking craze. I can't imagine how many pounds of flour went into the dumpster because of dumbass panic buying trends. Stuff like toilet paper was vaguely understandable because of supply chain discrepancies between people who were used to spending a good chunk of their awake hours at work vs at home, but flour being sold out in the initial panic buys was so lovely for people who actually cook because it was so transparently obvious the majority of those bags went towards a single instagram post before the people who never liked cooking and were never going to like cooking just went back to ordering uber eats or whatever. This was made clear in the second round of panic buys/shortages when stuff like toilet paper or tissues went out of stock again but flour and various other dried goods were just fine because the idiots that never cooked a day in their life before 2020 still had 19.5 of the 20 pounds they bought a couple months prior. If you could consolidate the waste of everyone pretending to be an amateur baker for 2 months you could probably fill entire landfills with their leftover flour. I still have a 20lb bag of flour and a bunch of stale yeast. Plz don't doxx me.
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Some company a few years ago sold a multipack of preportioned 1-cup bags of flour that I bought when they were on clearance. Too expensive at full price, but I have to admit they were pretty cool for just having a small stockpile for infrequent use.
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ArbitraryC posted:Don't even get me started on the breadmaking craze. I can't imagine how many pounds of flour went into the dumpster because of dumbass panic buying trends. Stuff like toilet paper was vaguely understandable because of supply chain discrepancies between people who were used to spending a good chunk of their awake hours at work vs at home, but flour being sold out in the initial panic buys was so lovely for people who actually cook because it was so transparently obvious the majority of those bags went towards a single instagram post before the people who never liked cooking and were never going to like cooking just went back to ordering uber eats or whatever. This was made clear in the second round of panic buys/shortages when stuff like toilet paper or tissues went out of stock again but flour and various other dried goods were just fine because the idiots that never cooked a day in their life before 2020 still had 19.5 of the 20 pounds they bought a couple months prior. If you could consolidate the waste of everyone pretending to be an amateur baker for 2 months you could probably fill entire landfills with their leftover flour. Maybe if you actually cooked you'd have some extra flour lying around? 
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Tarkus posted:I still have a 20lb bag of flour and a bunch of stale yeast. Plz don't doxx me. I will end you! Skrill.exe posted:Maybe if you actually cooked you'd have some extra flour lying around? I had a p good stockpile of shelf stable foods at the start of covid because I'm a loser who gets excited about local crate sales so there's always 2 dedicated cabinets in the house full of stuff like canned tomatoes, boxes of pasta, blah blah blah, but I coincidentally was running low on flour right as the original runs started and by god I was so mad cause I knew the vast majority of those sold out bags never got opened again after their first use. The number of fb posts I saw from friends whom I'm well aware don't really ever cook showing a single lovely loaf they probably didn't finish eating are innumerable but I could count on zero hands the number of bread posts I saw 2 months after the trend passed, that's food some families regularly rely on stretching their budget and would have been particularly important during those tough times but it all just went to the dumpster for shares on instagram.
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I finally got over my early covid trauma enough to read Station Eleven, so that's cool
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Aug 7, 2022 07:33
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I think it's kind of lame that I got a 3 day probe for posting a thread that people liked enough to get to 7 pages and counting, but whatever. I'll keep trying to produce thoughtful conversational pieces for GBS.
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jimmyjams posted:fart
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ArbitraryC posted:Don't even get me started on the breadmaking craze. I can't imagine how many pounds of flour went into the dumpster because of dumbass panic buying trends. Stuff like toilet paper was vaguely understandable because of supply chain discrepancies between people who were used to spending a good chunk of their awake hours at work vs at home, but flour being sold out in the initial panic buys was so lovely for people who actually cook because it was so transparently obvious the majority of those bags went towards a single instagram post before the people who never liked cooking and were never going to like cooking just went back to ordering uber eats or whatever. This was made clear in the second round of panic buys/shortages when stuff like toilet paper or tissues went out of stock again but flour and various other dried goods were just fine because the idiots that never cooked a day in their life before 2020 still had 19.5 of the 20 pounds they bought a couple months prior. If you could consolidate the waste of everyone pretending to be an amateur baker for 2 months you could probably fill entire landfills with their leftover flour. I was one of those people who took up baking during lockdown, so I did indeed buy a bag of flour when I found one in stock. Turns out I love baking for my friends and family, and my cookies are delicious!
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Aug 7, 2022 11:47
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We're still in the early phase of the pandemic, lmao.
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Aug 7, 2022 12:58
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No we're definitely living in late pandemicism
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Aug 7, 2022 15:16
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“During this unprecedented time…” in every email and advertisement for 7 months straight. Eventually it stopped when it was a big enough running joke but for a while there was no escaping the phrase.
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I think "the new normal" as marketing shorthand was worse because it was an early signifier of the fact we were going to do the bare minimum or less and then give up
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Aug 7, 2022 16:37
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I spent way too much time on goontube
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Petty Haberdasher posted:“During this unprecedented time…” in every email and advertisement for 7 months straight. Eventually it stopped when it was a big enough running joke but for a while there was no escaping the phrase. I liked when the pandemic put a swift end to a decade or so of music in tv commercials being all jolly ukulele/glockenspiel/whistling and replaced that with stark, weepy piano vamping for a while. Now the trend seems to be frantic rhythmic stomping and clapping sounds which I found hilarious once I started noticing it.
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‘We’re all in this together…’
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I enjoyed the near-empty plane the one time I had to fly. Haven't been on anything less than actually-have-enough-overhead-storage in 20 years.
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Petty Haberdasher posted:“During this unprecedented time…” in every email and advertisement for 7 months straight. Eventually it stopped when it was a big enough running joke but for a while there was no escaping the phrase. People got annoyed when I pointed out that America had a similar plague 100 years ago lol
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