D&D and the rising pandemic

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Oh I know, but really I'm pretty much at wits end and clinging to any little bit of optimism I can. Good news is in scant supply, so I try to cherish every little I can.

Fair

 

[Zardnaar]

Oh I know, but really I'm pretty much at wits end and clinging to any little bit of optimism I can. Good news is in scant supply, so I try to cherish every little I can.

I got called Mr Doom and Gloom 5 weeks ago.

It's iffy on a vaccine full stop. Not anytime soon best case.

Got family to prepare for the worst if it's better than that I get a pleasant surprise. If I'm right we're prepared best we can.

 

[Nilbog]

I got called Me Doom and Gloom 5 weeks ago.

It's iffy on a vaccine full stop. Not anytime soon best case.

Got family to prepare for the worst if it's better than that I get a pleasant surprise. If I'm right we're prepared best we can.

I'll be honest, if it's as bad as the worst case scenarios are predicting (lockdown for years, food rationing etc), I think I'd rather be dead. There is living and there is existing. So like I said earlier I'll keep praying for that miracle

 

[Zardnaar]

I'll be honest, if it's as bad as the worst case scenarios are predicting (lockdown for years, food rationing etc), I think I'd rather be dead. There is living and there is existing. So like I said earlier I'll keep praying for that miracle

I'll pick a large number then. Doom and gloom.

1 million Americans die. Relative to the population it's WW2 level casualties.

Throw in a depression. Government's borrow like mad.

UK paid their wartime debt off in 2006. War ended 1945.

It's stuff our grand parents and great grandparents had to deal with. The greatest generation.

Well now it's our turn. Happened to citizens of the ex USSR in the 90's.

Like it or not we have to deal with it. I'm unemployed my brothers a pilot he lost his job.

We're joking about doing farm work again. Not the way we planned it but he grew up on a farm, I've worked on a farm.

Sucks grubbing in mud in 40s and 50s or doing something involving seafood.

I can cook seafood in a hole dug in the ground and buried Polynesian style. I don't like seafood but if you're hungry enough......

 

[Nilbog]

I'll pick a large number then. Doom and gloom.

1 million Americans die. Relative to the population it's WW2 level casualties.

Throw in a depression. Government's borrow like mad.

UK paid their wartime debt off in 2006. War ended 1945.

It's stuff our grand parents and great grandparents had to deal with. The greatest generation.

Well now it's our turn. Happened to citizens of the ex USSR in the 90's.

Like it or not we have to deal with it. I'm unemployed my brothers a pilot he lost his job.

We're joking about doing farm work again. Not the way we planned it but he grew up on a farm, I've worked on a farm.

Sucks grubbing in mud in 40s and 50s or doing something involving seafood.

I can cook seafood in a hole dug in the ground and buried Polynesian style. I don't like seafood but if you're hungry enough......

And I don't disagree, we have to face it and 'hope for the best, prepare for the worst' is as good a mantra to live by as any.

And I'm glad you have that survivalist instinct, that's good, and I'm sure there are many more like you which is also good. I'm pretty content at the moment, like yourself I'm prepared as best can be, but that doesn't alter the fact that life has to have a modicum of enjoyment to it, I've not seen my girlfriend or my parents for the best part of five weeks now, which again is hardly the greatest hardship suffered, but for how long? 2 more months? Years?

At what point do we say things have to change, or will we ever? Is this now the new normal, with things we took for granted before, like socialising, a treat that we may only get to experience once in a blue moon?

For me the hardship isn't in what we are doing now, it's the fact that there doesn't seem to be any light at the end of the tunnel, and everytime there seems to be one is quickly put out

 

[Zardnaar]

And I don't disagree, we have to face it and 'hope for the best, prepare for the worst' is as good a mantra to live by as any.

And I'm glad you have that survivalist instinct, that's good, and I'm sure there are many more like you which is also good. I'm pretty content at the moment, like yourself I'm prepared as best can be, but that doesn't alter the fact that life has to have a modicum of enjoyment to it, I've not seen my girlfriend or my parents for the best part of five weeks now, which again is hardly the greatest hardship suffered, but for how long? 2 more months? Years?

At what point do we say things have to change, or will we ever? Is this now the new normal, with things we took for granted before, like socialising, a treat that we may only get to experience once in a blue moon?

For me the hardship isn't in what we are doing now, it's the fact that there doesn't seem to be any light at the end of the tunnel, and everytime there seems to be one is quickly put out

History degree I take a longer term view. Things are gonna suck but for me that's just a return to the 80s and 90s after parents separated.

I'm remembering stuff from being a Keas and Cub scouts, army basic etc. Cooking on tin cans or a hangi. Collecting shellfish off the rocks, working on farm and taking a cabbage home for mum. Catching fish off the wharf.

Half remembered seeing and cooking lessons at school. Agriculture subject year one of high school. Age 13 picking carrots.

Looking at back yard and seeing terraces with a glasshouse or child hood gardens. Short term there is no light at end of tunnel.
Best case we're going back to the 1970s in some ways.

Anyone promises a quick fix is full of crap.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

My maternal great grandmother lived through the 1918 flu, and was a hell of a character.

My grandparents grew up in the depression, with the added difficulty of being black in the south. I have seen how the necessity of extreme frugality shapes you.

Regardless of the hardships, people will still be people. It’s all about how you react & adapt.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

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[Zardnaar]

My maternal great grandmother lived through the 1918 flu, and was a hell of a character.

My grandparents grew up in the depression, with the added difficulty of being black in the south. I have seen how the necessity of extreme frugality ships you.

Regardless of the hardships, people will still be people. It’s all about how you react & adapt.

Pretty much. My mother's stories she had and inherited from her grandparents were bad.

Met great grandfather in the 80s and he sounded like Darth Vader. Germans gassed him western front WW1.

Things aren't good but the Germans aren't shooting at me, dropping gas shells on me, or firing V2 rockets at me. I'm not running up Omaha beach or the hill at Monte Casino. No paratroopers dropping on me at Crete, or angry Germans and Italians charging at me lead by Rommel.

My harbor has quarantine island used during Spanish Flu. It's called that for a reason.

 

[Zardnaar]

More fun!

Newly recognized symptoms/effects

A coronavirus patient thought he was recovering. Then doctors found blood clots in his lungs — a new and potentially deadly complication of the virus.

"It feels like a toxin is in my body," Michael Reagan, a coronavirus patient who was told he had dozens of blood clots in his lungs, said.

www.yahoo.com

What happens in Vegas...

Las Vegas Not-So-Politely Declines Mayor’s Bonkers Offer to Become Virus ‘Control Group’

Las Vegans on Wednesday trashed Mayor Carolyn Goodman’s suggestion that city residents would love to be a “control group” to see how ending Nevada’s coronavirus lockdown would affect the spread of the new coronavirus.“We would love to be that placebo side so you have something to measure...

news.yahoo.com

The Vegas thing made CNN on YouTube.

I read the news each day, haven't had a tv reception in years so not used to live news reports.

My American friends are in Colorado, Ohio, and Houston some interesting stories and reactions.