2G20 - 1: Coronavirus

WaWard · Post by **WaWard** » Wed Oct 07, 2020 3:11 pm

Yesterday Dougie told us he was going to have Thanksgiving with his family

But then also told us not to have thanksgiving dinner with our families, and stick to people you live with.

And then said he would have Thanksgiving with his immediate household, which surely is a play of word to imply he considers his kids as part of his household, but we aren't allowed to do that, but he is

Fei Ayanami · Post by **Fei Ayanami** » Wed Oct 07, 2020 4:19 pm

You aren’t allowed to consider your kids part of your household?

I assume you mean more like you can’t consider your parents (with whom you allegedly don’t live) part of your household?

WaWard · Post by **WaWard** » Wed Oct 07, 2020 4:20 pm

IDK? What's a house hold? It seems clear to me, but it's 100% open to interpretation.

I'm sure he still considers his kids part of his household because he's a boomer, even if they don't live there anymore.

Basically: he was saving face for having his kids over this weekend.

Fei Ayanami · Post by **Fei Ayanami** » Wed Oct 07, 2020 6:08 pm

ur premier sux

WaWard · Post by **WaWard** » Wed Oct 07, 2020 7:53 pm

urs too

but after three days of asking for clarifications he finally defined a household as where people live permanently.

Vibing_V · Post by **Vibing_V** » Wed Oct 07, 2020 7:58 pm

Our premier wants to give us money (aka buy votes)

WaWard · Post by **WaWard** » Wed Oct 07, 2020 8:47 pm

I already got $400 from our premier

Fei Ayanami · Post by **Fei Ayanami** » Thu Oct 08, 2020 2:23 am

Whoa! 400 beers!

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Thu Oct 08, 2020 7:01 am

Household doesn’t seem open to interpretation to me. It’s the people who live with you in your house.

WaWard · Post by **WaWard** » Thu Oct 08, 2020 11:54 am

Damien wrote:Household doesn’t seem open to interpretation to me. It’s the people who live with you in your house.

It shouldn’t be open to interpretation
But mental gymnastics

Fei Ayanami · Post by **Fei Ayanami** » Thu Oct 08, 2020 12:04 pm

It’s as many people as your house can hold

WaWard · Post by **WaWard** » Thu Oct 08, 2020 12:33 pm

I mean our Premier also said he'd be having his dinner w/ only 10 people, then only his household, and it didn't seem like a reversal of situation, so people were pressing him on it because HE MADE IT CONFUSING

I don't know about you, Damien and Fei, but I think my Premier sucks. I'm consulting you because your PM and Premier also sucks, you're experts at this.

Fei Ayanami · Post by **Fei Ayanami** » Thu Oct 08, 2020 1:32 pm

My premier is the best premier Quebec has had this year

Vibing_V · Post by **Vibing_V** » Thu Oct 08, 2020 8:42 pm

WaWard wrote:I mean our Premier also said he'd be having his dinner w/ only 10 people, then only his household, and it didn't seem like a reversal of situation, so people were pressing him on it because HE MADE IT CONFUSING

I don't know about you, Damien and Fei, but I think my Premier sucks. I'm consulting you because your PM and Premier also sucks, you're experts at this.

But $1 beers!!!!111 or something.

Our premier is the best we've had in a very very long time. I hope he stays in.

WaWard · Post by **WaWard** » Fri Oct 09, 2020 7:44 pm

Tuesday, fordnation: "We're flattening the curve"
Friday, fordnation: "We have to lockdown because you're all idiots!"

Fei Ayanami · Post by **Fei Ayanami** » Tue Oct 13, 2020 3:41 pm

Cristiano Ronaldo has covid, RIP Portugal

Lord Golbez · Post by **Lord Golbez** » Tue Oct 13, 2020 5:18 pm

Ronaldo?!!!! Looks like it's time for .... A Murder of Covids!

Fei Ayanami · Post by **Fei Ayanami** » Tue Oct 13, 2020 5:19 pm

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Tue Oct 13, 2020 9:27 pm

We now have a three tiered restriction system. Tier 1, tier 2 and tier Liverpool. Manchester is in tier 2 and the restrictions are actually less tight than those we've been in since early August

Fei Ayanami · Post by **Fei Ayanami** » Tue Oct 13, 2020 9:39 pm

We have a colour code system in Quebec and Montreal has been in CODE ROUGE for some time now.

EDIT:
Here is a not very explanatory guide!

Note that unlike the very optimistic fictional scenario illustrated, there is no green anywhere in the province currently.

WaWard · Post by **WaWard** » Wed Oct 14, 2020 2:02 am

Even if this is confusing is sure is clearer than the hot mess we have here because colour coding is too complicated.

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Wed Oct 14, 2020 6:49 am

We don’t have a green level because they don’t want people to think anywhere is “safe”. It’s the most sensible thing they’ve done.

Lord Golbez · Post by **Lord Golbez** » Wed Oct 14, 2020 2:55 pm

Coronavirus is the hottest of hot topics.

Fei Ayanami · Post by **Fei Ayanami** » Wed Oct 14, 2020 3:13 pm

Damien wrote:We don’t have a green level because they don’t want people to think anywhere is “safe”. It’s the most sensible thing they’ve done.

I had to remind myself if this was also the case here when I initially looked at the current map. The above pretend map confirmed that green exists.

Fei Ayanami · Post by **Fei Ayanami** » Wed Oct 14, 2020 3:14 pm

This hot topic began with

Fei Ayanami wrote:u afraid?

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Wed Oct 14, 2020 3:29 pm

I'm gonna read the first couple of pages yet again in a few days

Fei Ayanami · Post by **Fei Ayanami** » Wed Oct 14, 2020 3:44 pm

Pretty sure we are painfully dismissive of the situation

WE WERE JUST YOUNG AND NAIVE BACK THEN

WaWard · Post by **WaWard** » Wed Oct 14, 2020 8:07 pm

Fei Ayanami wrote:
WaWard wrote:
ur gonna be embarrassed for posting this if I actually die

Not embarrassed yet.

Fei Ayanami · Post by **Fei Ayanami** » Wed Oct 14, 2020 9:04 pm

I’m only 4 years from being 40 it could happen at any time

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Thu Oct 15, 2020 9:22 am

Had to hold my tongue when I was on a work call today and my manager was complaining about "Big Brother" and the possibility of being treated like a criminal for "having the flu".

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Thu Oct 15, 2020 12:43 pm

London's finally getting some restrictions and moving to Tier 2!

Fei Ayanami · Post by **Fei Ayanami** » Thu Oct 15, 2020 2:45 pm

They made it!

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Thu Oct 15, 2020 3:12 pm

Friends in London complaining that the new rule of not being allowed to have others in your house when you can still go to a pub/restaurant are cute, considering we've had that rule since before "Eat Out to Help Out" started, when the Government were trying to encourage us to go out to pubs and restaurants.

Cybernetic Empire · Post by **Cybernetic Empire** » Fri Oct 16, 2020 3:42 pm

I'm glad to see this all blew over.

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Tue Oct 20, 2020 8:01 am

Despite us living and working in a high risk area of the country, my manager and her manager keep telling us that they’ll sign us off as needing to come back to the office if we want. As far as I know none of us (there are 4) have taken them up on the offer. Even without the danger of cov, I actually fucking prefer not seeing anybody and I’m definitely not tempted to start fucking about with public transport at the crack of dawn now it’s dark, cold and wet out.

Vibing_V · Post by **Vibing_V** » Tue Oct 20, 2020 6:03 pm

I get a bit irritated when some of the people pointing at others going out and doing things end up going out and doing things they don't really need to as well.

I also find it odd how people keep asking "what are you doing this weekend?" 7 months in. I'm staying home. Again. Like I do every weekend. I don't typically mind small talk but this just seems like a particularly stupid/awkward question at this point in time.

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Tue Oct 20, 2020 6:10 pm

People on work calls keep asking me. I just say "nothing". The apprentice at work says he's been invited to loads of Halloween parties. Thing is, I can't say with 100% certainly that I wouldn't have still gone to parties at that age

Lord Golbez · Post by **Lord Golbez** » Tue Oct 20, 2020 7:18 pm

How often do you have to talk to people that you have this kind of small talk? Most days I don't talk to anyone.

Fei Ayanami · Post by **Fei Ayanami** » Tue Oct 20, 2020 7:18 pm

I think I mostly just say I’m gonna walk around and enjoy the weather, when that is a thing I’m likely to do anyway (the weather is not always enjoyable).

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Tue Oct 20, 2020 10:23 pm

For the first few months of home working, we had team calls each morning. Now it's twice a week.

Vibing_V · Post by **Vibing_V** » Thu Oct 22, 2020 8:25 am

My boss will give me quick calls (like 5 min) to check in a couple of times a week, or sometimes about very specific things.

We probably have things that would be similar to team meetings maybe once a month? Less? Only as needed (and usually due to meeting with outside parties, not just us).

I'm thankful I'm not tied up with meetings all the time. Having smaller face to face checkins might actually be nice though (social aspect - just makes things feel a bit more real than emailing all the time).

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Thu Oct 22, 2020 8:44 am

I end up having to hear people's hot takes on how the government should be handling the pandemic, mostly from people that have kids and think the most important thing is somebody else looks after their kids during the day.

Fei Ayanami · Post by **Fei Ayanami** » Mon Oct 26, 2020 2:13 pm

Really looking forward to government and society learning nothing from this year.

WaWard · Post by **WaWard** » Mon Oct 26, 2020 4:19 pm

I mean we’re already largely learning nothing about this year and applying that learning nothing this year already so...

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Sat Oct 31, 2020 10:02 pm

UK lockdown 2!

Mitsurugi CP · Post by **Mitsurugi CP** » Sat Nov 07, 2020 2:46 pm

Fei Ayanami wrote:Really looking forward to government and society learning nothing from this year.

You could write a book over the shit we, collectively, haven't learned over the last 20 years.

Climate change is an existential threat, cops are violent,racist, and corrupt, spying on people who've done nothing wrong is bad, fascism is bad, don't elect narcissistic liars to prime minister/president, don't hold a referendum amongst uninformed laypeople about complicated economic policy, trickle-down economics only enriches the way too wealthy, people who say they hate socialism conflate it with authoritarianism and, for inexplicable reasons, wind up supporting authoritarians...

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Mon Nov 09, 2020 6:20 pm

With news of a possible vaccine so close to Trump being dumped, is it possible we've crossed over into a less shitty timeline?

Vibing_V · Post by **Vibing_V** » Mon Nov 09, 2020 6:33 pm

Our numbers here rapidly increased last week. I think about a month ago we were in the 200s. Last week we broke 400+ and 500+. So on Saturday they had a special conference to announce a 2 week restriction (no socializing, no indoor gym classes, basically).

But because the messaging is nuanced instead of firm (ie: if you live alone you can still visit people but keep it small and safe) people are confused and probably won't care.

Fei Ayanami · Post by **Fei Ayanami** » Mon Nov 09, 2020 6:41 pm

Yayy unclear messaging!

Mitsurugi CP · Post by **Mitsurugi CP** » Mon Nov 09, 2020 8:19 pm

Damien wrote:With news of a possible vaccine so close to Trump being dumped, is it possible we've crossed over into a less shitty timeline?

Less shitty is an incredibly low bar, given *gestures vaguely in all directions*.

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