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[PItiful Boar]

easter sunday

 

Um... pool closed for three weeks... will die from lack of exercise... send halp

[pokari]

Sunday drive

I can't come and help you, I think it's illegal right now owo;;;;;

Going outdoors for non-essential functions seems to be broadly banned.

What a world.

Well, my personal daily routine hasn't changed any, though ~w~;

wish I could party these days tbh....

i'm not exactly teeming with enthusiasm these days after recovering from my cold DDDD:

Aww :/ *hugs*

[penrosecat]

Boring sunday

 

Well I have a lot of free time to work on projects or prepare for stuff. Today I am taking a break and playing super mario world (i never actually finished this)

Also, it seems as though people in the UK and US are rather casual in that they treat it as a disruption to more productive activities. I even saw a couple of posts here and there about how "it's fine if old people die" and "i'm gonna try to get infected so that i become immune" kind of stuff. Well, it does seem to be spreading good.

[pokari]

Okay, if you're seeing posts like that it's because you're finding the usual small vocal number of nasty people that make the internet the... Exciting place that it always is. That is definitely not the mood on the ground over here, at any rate.

The bit about people going to "get it over with" is interesting, though, reminds me of an incident where a bug in WoW involving a not-supposed-to-be-persistent spreadable status effect acted a lot like a disease (or something like that), and some epidemiologists commented that some bits of that spread followed real disease spread in ways that their models do not, and part of that seemed to possibly be because those models simply didn't account for some portion of humans being damned perverse and deliberately seeking infection or other strange things for one reason or another.

Well, humans will be humans. This is why every economic model based around humans operating as rational actors ends up having problems. ~w~

And I have to say, I'm not okay with it if "just old people die", and the people who are seem odd to me. I wonder how they will feel hearing that when they are old? Have they not thought that far? Are they all "live fast die young" folks? I swear, is enlightened self-interest that hard...? I plan to be old for a very long time, preferably immortal, so putting some thought into keeping old folks alive seems good to me (not even taking into account that many reasonably-old people are quite precious to me, such as my parents).

Anyway, the mood over here is definitely a bit strained at the moment: Even if my own personal day-to-day life is largely unaffected in theory, with a double-digit percentage of the country now on lockdown ("except for essential services") there is definitely a Mood.

And rather than just it being "a disruption to more productive activities," it's more that our economic system is not designed to suddenly take a break like this and a staggering number of people (and for that matter the businesses that employ those people) who normally live month-to-month are facing insolvency from losing their jobs and/or all their work hours for the next several weeks. Total economic collapse is unlikely but not impossible, and that would definitely cause a lot more death and suffering in this world than this pandemic ever could, so I can't say concerns about the economy are unfounded.

(There's other aspects to it than that broad perspective as well. For a given person, for instance, maybe between a 1% chance of death for them and their loved ones if something doesn't get better, and a very real high chance of being helpless and homeless if they can't get any money for the next month or so—the latter can be much scarier. Bear in mind that some of the places going on lockdown first have some of the highest rent costs in proportion to income and expenses, in the country: Just sitting at home doing nothing is actually rather expensive, in this valley, which was one of the first places to go on lockdown. In fact housing cost and resultant homelessness was already one of the biggest problems of the day here before this... It's not good timing.)

Anyway, I hope you are safe and sound :'3

Sunday nap

Edited by pokari, 21 March 2020 - 12:02 AM.

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Nap time

Oh how times have changed. Or they are still pretty similar?

I would change so much if I could go back 6 months in time.

[AnimeManga272b]

Time out.

[pokari]

Out playing

[penrosecat]

KEEP OUT

 

give me a break

[pokari]

Keep safe. ' ^ '

[You]

Be Safe