After quarantine, I have become a lot better at...

[jeezifonly]

Nothing. Essential worker. No quarantine for me.

?? thank you

[Islesguy]

Saving money, without going out to restaurants/bars or hiring masseurs/escorts, I have saved a bundle.

Watching my savings account grow is definitely helping my psyche. Also thinking about the things I can do with it when ends helps as well.

[alrajee]

Exercising (lost 30 pounds already and I take a lot more shirtless selfies), cooking, and saving money.

[+ nycman]

Masterbation.

[+ bashful]

Not being a slave to routine, like watching the same shows at the same time, not going online constantly, at the same time every day, learning to say no to invitations without feeling guilty, not gambling as much, and most important, recognizing my flaws, and those that I have not gotten better at controlling.

[marylander1940]

Walking around a nearby park, it's a safe exercise as long as I wear a mask and keep distance.

[jjkrkwood]

Becoming a Stepford Housewife.....

 

Today is a dreary day in NYC. Normally on such days, I would go see a movie, frequent a bathouse or attend a sex party at one of the local sex clubs....

 

But in lockdown, what do I do ? LAUNDRY, and I have become very proficient at it, since I used to send my laundry out....

 

And I'm a wiz at cleaning my stainless steel kitchen backsplash, Hell there isnt even a dust-bunny left in my house... I get up each day saying "So Alyn, what ya gonna Clean today?" And if God is my witness, I hear an answer.. ?

 

Then off I go, happily doing my chores for the day... If something ISNT dirty, I make it dirty just so I can clean it and have something to do....

 

My closets and drawers are all organized and color-coded..... I'm ready to make some guy the perfect man-wife !!!

[SirBillybob]

Growing out my ear hair and not caring.

 

Making sure that every pair of socks has one with the manufacturing label tuck-folded with one from the half of them that are not labelled.

Edited December 12, 2020 by SirBIllybob

[jjkrkwood]

Growing out my ear hair and not caring.

 

Making sure that every pair of socks has one with the manufacturing label tuck-folded with one from the half of them that are not labelled.

 

I am making sock puppets out of the sock that lost its mate in the laundry... See, I knew it was a good idea to save those orphaned socks !

[Guest]

Exercising (lost 30 pounds already and I take a lot more shirtless selfies), cooking, and saving money.

??The gyms close and you exercise more?? All I've been able to do is go on hikes, and since daylight savings time ended, I haven't been able to do that except on week-ends, since it's dark by the time I finish work (except on week-ends, and it's raining all week-end). Well, I guess when I retire, I'll be hiking up and down Runyon Canyon most days, pretty soon. And I just realized that I'm only going to work one more Friday ever, presumably for the rest of my life!! My last day of work is 1/4/21!

[Epigonos]

At recognizing so many national and local politicians for the blatant hypocrites, they are: 1.) California, Governor Gavin Newsom – Insisting that people not eat out in restaurants while he was photographed attend a private dinner at the very pricey (minimum $350 a person) French Laundry in Yountville, CA. 2.) U.S. House of Representative Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Chicago Mayor, Lori Lightfoot having their hair done in a saloon when hair saloons were closed to “all” other patrons, 3.) San Jose, CA major going on record recommending that people not attend family gathering over Thanksgiving Weekend yet he flew to Alabama to be with his wife and daughter. 4.) Mayor Steve Adler of Austin, TX recording a message to city residents recommending that they not travel over the Thanksgiving Weekend. At the time the message was recorded he was vacationing in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. The list goes on.

 

I simply do not understand why these people feel so entitled nor do I understand why they are so fucking stupid that they don’t feel they will be caught. It is easy to see why politicians of all stripes have lost so much creditability during this pandemic

Edited December 13, 2020 by Epigonos

[Guest]

I saw on the TV news yesterday that some restaurants are suing Contra Costa (California) county for closing outdoor dining, saying (which is true) that there's no evidence that outdoor dining spreads the virus. One of "Quinn's" friends lost his job as a server due to the closure of outdoor dining. If there's evidence it's helpful, that's one thing. However, I think it's awful to put people out of a job and places out of business just because politicians feel they should show they're "doing something" instead of following the science.

[josh282282]

If there's evidence it's helpful, that's one thing. However, I think it's awful to put people out of a job and places out of business just because politicians feel they should show they're "doing something" instead of following the science.

 

The terrible impact on the economy & individual livelihoods is heartbreaking, especially to our beloved restaurant staff. But to say there is no data on how outdoor dining is a location where Covid-19 transmission occurs is inaccurate.

 

Below is a link to a CDC report that investigated how people got infected.

"Close contact with a person with known COVID-19 was more commonly reported among case-patients (42%) than among control-participants (14%). Case-patients were more likely to have reported dining at a restaurant (any area designated by the restaurant, including indoor, patio, and outdoor seating) in the 2 weeks preceding illness onset..." (emphasis mine).

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6936a5.htm

 

Excellent video link to some researchers & how they demonstrate dispersement of cough particles in the air.

https://www.cnn.com/videos/health/2020/05/04/cough-coronavirus-masks-kaye-pkg-vpx.cnn/video/playlists/coronavirus

 

I see a lot of "outdoor" dining restaurants with the tents & multiple tarp side walls around said "outdoor" dining. Even if it only has a tarp roof with no side walls, the roof will decrease the natural disbursement of the Covid pathogen. In addition, people take off their masks in these faux-outdoor dining establishments where they eat, talk & laugh loudly. People dont just go to restaurants with people they are quarantining with. They go with friends and family where they sit right across from. All of this completely erodes the safety of being outdoors and thus Covid-19 transmission can occur. And the above CDC paper described outdoor dining transmission.

 

I genuinely dont think one can blame the politicians for the bans on outdoor dining. These recommendations are coming from the medical community. The politicians are just following public health department recommendations.

 

Covid sucks.

When made available to you, get the Covid vaccine.

I'm a physician. I'm getting it the moment its available to me.

Be safe my friends.

[Monarchy79]

.... working out, without going to my gym....

 

At the beginning of quarantine, I missed going to the gym (yoga, cycling, and other classes), but once I started working out at home (using workout videos), I adapted quite well. Now that my gym is back open, I kept my membership frozen and have contemplated cancelling it. Both my residential community, and my office building have gyms that are rarely used (I’m there all by myself), and as each day goes by, I’m remembering the things about my gym that I didn’t like: Rude people, crowded workout areas, machine hoggers, and just bad “energy”.

 

I’m an introvert by nature, and 2020 definitely recharged it for me!!!!

[samhexum]

[Guest]

...

"Close contact with a person with known COVID-19 was more commonly reported among case-patients (42%) than among control-participants (14%). Case-patients were more likely to have reported dining at a restaurant (any area designated by the restaurant, including indoor, patio, and outdoor seating) in the 2 weeks preceding illness onset..." (emphasis mine).

...

 

Including indoor and outdoor, and was an association only. This study suggests outdoor activities are risky mainly when there's a greater concentration of people, more mingling, and other stuff being done:

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.09.04.20188417v2

"...The review found very few examples of outdoor transmission of COVID-19 in everyday life among c. 25,000 cases considered, suggesting a very low risk. However risk of outdoor transmission increases when the natural social distancing of everyday life is breached, and gathering density, circulation and size increases, particularly for an extended duration...."

[+ purplekow]

Masterbation.

But not spelling

[mike carey]

Including indoor and outdoor, and was an association only. This study suggests outdoor activities are risky mainly when there's a greater concentration of people, more mingling, and other stuff being done:

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.09.04.20188417v2

"...The review found very few examples of outdoor transmission of COVID-19 in everyday life among c. 25,000 cases considered, suggesting a very low risk. However risk of outdoor transmission increases when the natural social distancing of everyday life is breached, and gathering density, circulation and size increases, particularly for an extended duration...."

I think you proved the point you were contesting.. 'Outdoor dining' is not in the same category as 'everyday life' outdoors, it's far more like indoor dining. It breaches the natural social distancing, gathering density, circulation and size of gatherings that characterise other outdoor activities. As Josh noted, many 'outdoor' dining settings are tented in such a way that they eliminate air circulation and mimic indoor settings. Perhaps restrictions should be couched more in terms of numbers of people in a given area, spacing between patrons, length of time they are there, and the like rather than blanket approval/disapproval of whole classes of activities.

[SirBillybob]

There is a dizzying array of factors that influence transmission potential within outdoor dining. I think it is reasonable to say that indoor dining poses greater risk. If the difference could be quantified by relative risk, the background infection incidence rate could drive the guidance around thresholds of incidence that support restriction levels.

 

When you have a confidence interval, for example the Japanese study that attempted to compare the two, of 6-fold to 60-fold risk of indoor vs outdoor dining, erring on the side of caution suggests that you restrict outdoor dining at the point in time background case incidence has multiplied by a factor of 5 or so compared to the highest incidence rate at which outdoor dining was allowed while indoor dining not permitted.

 

However, there are environmental and structural variables that influence risk beyond that (see attachment). And arguing about what edge of the confidence interval to lean towards if the calculated indoor risk is 19-fold the outdoor, as in the same study. And disagreement about how much mitigation and associated disruption sacrifice is legitimate to prevent one death ... similar to the general Number Needed to Treat construct. And so on.

 

https://ncceh.ca/documents/field-inquiry/outdoor-winter-dining-during-covid-19-pandemic

Edited December 13, 2020 by SirBIllybob

[+ MysticMenace]

If something ISNT dirty, I make it dirty just so I can clean it and have something to do....

 

curious...how do you make it dirty?

[Rudynate]

applying myself to projects that require patience and consistency

[Guest]

I think you proved the point you were contesting.. 'Outdoor dining' is not in the same category as 'everyday life' outdoors, it's far more like indoor dining. It breaches the natural social distancing, gathering density, circulation and size of gatherings that characterise other outdoor activities. As Josh noted, many 'outdoor' dining settings are tented in such a way that they eliminate air circulation and mimic indoor settings. Perhaps restrictions should be couched more in terms of numbers of people in a given area, spacing between patrons, length of time they are there, and the like rather than blanket approval/disapproval of whole classes of activities.

Well, I will agree that a tented area can mimic indoor settings, and I agree that those should be restricted in the same way as indoor. However, what the study was referring to in "circulation" was the circulation/mingling of people, not the air circulation (though I suspect a fan could be used to mimic the wind). The study looked at tens of thousands of actual Covid-19 transmissions and found that in those rare occasions that outdoor transmission occurred, it was in the setting in which people were sitting close together for prolonged periods of time, and mingling around, such as weddings or rose garden supreme court nomination ceremonies. Why do the studies if people are going to ignore the findings? This type of argumentation reminds me of Trump supporters, who aren't happy with the facts, so think sophistry will prevail over facts.

This wouldn't be so important if the consequences didn't have such a dire effect on so many peoples' lives. People are losing jobs and (in the US) health insurance over this issue. Many have faced bankruptcy. I have never heard of a single case of Covid-19 transmission tied to outdoor dining. Certainly not in the 100+ patients I've personally had who've contracted it. If the science were there to support the closure of outdoor dining, I'd be all for it. But I'm not going to take the mentality of "Well, we've go to look like we're doing something. Closing outdoor dining doesn't affect me much personally, so let's go ahead and do that...".

[jjkrkwood]

curious...how do you make it dirty?

 

When you can cum over, i'll show you ! ?

[+ Coolwave35]

Slide puzzles.

[OCClient]

I quit Twitter and Facebook, so better use of time now.

 

I cleaned and sorted my house. Got rid of 1/3 of my clothes and lot of other stuff. I can see how hoarders end up that way. So easy to let it pile up.