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Re: I Miss My Bar

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Post by Wintamute »

CydeWeys wrote: post #266
Wintamute wrote: post #234

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Have you quantified that? How unsafe it is to your personally? I don't know anything about your personal situation, but if you're healthy and relatively young the risk from Covid (first catching it, then having a bad time with it) in resuming these aspects of normal life may be extremely low, even compared to activities you wouldn't think twice about doing pre-pandemic - like taking a short car ride for example. I th…

> How unsafe it is to your personally? That's a very selfish way of looking at things. The problem with being a communicable disease is that even if I'm fine, others I give it too might not be. I'm trying to be a team player here. Also, I'm not in a low-risk group personally anyway.

No, not selfish. See answer below

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26194718

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Post by solosoyokaze »

AndrewUnmuted wrote: post #263
solosoyokaze wrote: post #256

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> You know what's even less of a joke than COVID-19? Our histrionic, insane, and completely violent overreaction to it. Quick question: how would you propose dealing with a global pandemic? Social isolation seems like the most common sense solution, since in 2021 we know how disease is transmitted and how to deal with that.

Social isolation may be the best solution. Fine. Don't force it on us. If it's the right solution, then it will be followed. I am not going to entertain further the notion that we have locked people into their homes, given trillions of dollars to multinational corporations, and restricted the lives of everyday people, just because of a pandemic that kills less than 1% of the people infected. This is such an obvious c…

I'm not making any cash on this, and I want the lockdown to continue. Because I don't want COVID and have a rudimentary knowledge of how disease is transmitted.

> Social isolation may be the best solution. Fine. Don't force it on us. If it's the right solution, then it will be followed.

I think your own statement is proof that this is not the case. We know social distancing works, yet you don't want to implement it.

> just like what happened after 9/11 in the US with the imposition of the Patriot Act.

I agree that governments will always do this. That doesn't make COVID any less of a threat though. The lockdown isn't the only lever of authoritarian control. There's plenty of others you can fight to increase individual liberty. Things that won't put millions of others (and yourself) at risk.

Re: I Miss My Bar

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Post by dominotw »

I think not knowing when this is ending is worst part. I now know what the protagonist of the movie 'oldboy' meant by that.

also on a unrelated note, "you will see in two weeks" crowd seems to have completely disappeared.

Re: I Miss My Bar

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Post by jdxcode »

edmundofuentes wrote: post #197

That's our local bar in Monterrey, Mexico [1]! We received some paper flyers with a QR when we had our first lockdown, it's nice seeing it pop up in HN. If anyone's wondering, the bar is still open and operating on a very limited capacity, which has made it much nicer in my opinion. Also, the usual jazz quartet has been replaced with a trio with much younger musicians, since understandably the older musicians don't w…

How is Monterrey for tourism? I've always been more interested in what Mexico is for most Mexicans than the typical tourist spots. It seems that Monterrey is the most "metropolitan" city in Mexico.

Re: I Miss My Bar

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Post by solosoyokaze »

0xffff2 wrote: post #258
jorl17 wrote: post #252

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Lockdown has allowed me to properly realize how much I really do not care about going out. I may enjoy social outings, and for a while I used to have weekly scheduled social outings having much fun in them. In spite of that, I've always been "homey", and I've always been very affected by going out multiple times -- especially weekends. It just drains me and physically exhausts me. Weekends should be sacred. I absolut…

Glad to see I'm not the only one. I've seen so many posts across the internet along the lines of "I'm a total loner, but I can hardly take it anymore". Meanwhile, I'm definitely an introvert, but not even that much of a loner and I'm doing just fine.

I'm an introvert that's doing fine as well. As long as we're talking about positives (which we should!) I'd say no business travel is the #1 benefit for me. I've gone from being forced to take a dozen trips a year to zero. It's been wonderful. No more rushing around filthy airports, crammed next to strangers for hours in coach, disgusting hotel rooms... all in the name of my job.

I quite frankly hope business travel never returns. Better for the environment too.

Re: I Miss My Bar

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Post by karlerss »

DoingIsLearning wrote: post #142
LandR wrote: post #86

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In my country, the UK, you can be fined for going a walk to a park if it isn't the closest park to your home. Basically if the police want to be arses to you they can ask you where you are going and why you are where you are, if they dont like your answer you can be fined. There was an article in the BBC a while back about two friends that met up for a walk in the country side, they drove to the meetup point. It wasn…

What I think is under discussed is the fact that we allow for all of these social restrictions measurements but yet air travel across all the EU countries is still allowed.

Air travel worldwide is just fine. In airport transit zones all you need is a mask.

We flew from Northern Europe to South Asia a week ago and the flights were filled 60-70%.

Re: I Miss My Bar

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Post by mStreamTeam »

dominotw wrote: post #273

I think not knowing when this is ending is worst part. I now know what the protagonist of the movie 'oldboy' meant by that. also on a unrelated note, "you will see in two weeks" crowd seems to have completely disappeared.

The "two weeks to flatten the curve" feels like gaslghting in retrospect.

Re: I Miss My Bar

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Post by majewsky »

mStreamTeam wrote: post #277
dominotw wrote: post #273

I think not knowing when this is ending is worst part. I now know what the protagonist of the movie 'oldboy' meant by that. also on a unrelated note, "you will see in two weeks" crowd seems to have completely disappeared.

The "two weeks to flatten the curve" feels like gaslghting in retrospect.

We did flatten the curve. You just don't get to see the alternate reality where we didn't.

Re: I Miss My Bar

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Post by np- »

globular-toast wrote: post #130
ycombinete wrote: post #69

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“Secured the means to reproduction”, sure does sound like something an alien, trying to act human, would say about finding a partner. A lot of people, especially in pub cultures like the UK socialise at their locals, they don’t just go there to aggressively pursue sex with strangers. It’s where they meet their friends after work, where they go to watch sport on the weekend etc.

I know. I live in the UK. I literally started my comment saying how different I am to other people and people keep replying about how not everyone is like me. Is reading comprehension really this bad or am I just rubbish at writing? I'm always happy to learn if it's the latter.

Saying you don't "understand" something when it's clearly, obviously understandable with a shred of empathy - especially since you live in the UK and have likely met many people who go to the pub for reasons beyond "reproduction" sounds extremely condescending at best, and malicious at worst. If that wasn't your intention, then yes, I suggest you go back and try to improve your writing style.

Re: I Miss My Bar

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Post by RhodoGSA »

I don't miss my bar - because me and all my friends never stopped going. What people who 'Listened' don't realise is that people still go out... in every city. Most sheriff's in California have flat out refused to comply with the lockdown regulations. Since when did America get the ability to shutdown business'? Never....

During this Pandemic i've lost three 'Friends' (Social Media acquaintances I knew from HS) to suicide and have not heard of a single person who's had any long-term damage from Covid and the majority of my friends have has it at one point in time by now. I got it in early March in SF and again in July in Miami. Both times i caught a little sniffle. I got tested and quarantined but it did not stop me or scare me away from living my life. Most of my friends have the money, willpower and social distain for authoritarian governments to move to wherever state is not trying to follow China's example. (Mainly Socal, Florida, even Mexico)

Smoking cigs, riding motorcycles, and a million other things can kill you in this life. Live your life and anyone who tells you "You must do this for the saftey of others" can go fuck themselves. You have no right to tell me what I can and can't do as long as i am not causing DIRECT harm to you. If you're scared of COVID stay inside, but let the rest of us live our lives.

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