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Re: I Miss My Bar

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Post by Mediterraneo10 »

coldpie wrote: post #171
DebtDeflation wrote: post #163

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think we're turning the corner. I was firmly in the "doomer" camp before, but there are strong reasons for optimism now. New cases, daily deaths, and hospitalizations have all been falling rapidly for weeks now. The current estimate is for 50% of the US population to have received their first shot of vaccine by June 28: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/covid-19-vaccine... That's at the current pace. The…

IMO Summer is a bit optimistic to be calling anything "normal," but I broadly agree we're near the end. Maybe by Fall or Winter we can hang out in bars again without feeling like we're killing somebody. In either case, now is not the time to give up. A few more months and we'll start seeing things ease up, I think. But we won't get there if we make things worse now. It sucks. Stay strong. Do what you can.

> But we won't get there if we make things worse now.

I have seen this claimed a lot, but is it really true? In some countries the authorities ended restrictions (or ostensibly maintained restrictions but stopped enforcement of them) because the population simply wasn't observing them. In those cases just "giving up" really worked in terms of the majority of people being able to get back to normal socializing.

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Post by snakeboy »

baud147258 wrote: post #165

I miss the bars a little (I wasn't too much for going out), but the current 6 pm curfew is rather annoying, how I can't do anything after work. Of course I adjusted my habits, going shopping or running during lunch breaks or the week end, but still

In France, I've slowly started returning to nighttime walks and runs, and I haven't been hassled by any police yet. I guess I'll gladly take the fine if some cop is on a power-trip one night. Some désobéissance civile is healthy :)

Though you're right grocery shopping is a pain.

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Post by standardUser »

Izkata wrote: post #159
e67f70028a46fba wrote: post #144

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Even the term: lockdown Free societies don’t have lockdowns. Prisons do. One would think that the government would come up with a better term, if only out of self interest. But then perhaps that’s the point.

A lot of places used "shelter-in-place", and officially over here it's still "stay-at-home". The colloquial term having switched so totally to "lockdown" is another symptom of people caring for it less and less.

I was endlessly annoyed by the misuse of the term "shetler-in-place" by so many state and local governments. At no point should anyone, anywhere have sheltered in place due to this pandemic, which is an established term in emergency management where people are instructed to shelter in whatever structure they happen to be located at the time of the emergency.

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Post by discardedrefuse »

bookmarkable wrote: post #166

Cool bit of audio mixing. I'd appreciate "IMissLiveSports" personally, and "IMissLiveMusic" that could played in the background of any other music would be fun, too.

The NFL was piping crowd noise in to their empty stadiums all season. Some games seemed to have a live person controlling the crowd reactions. Not the same, but I got used to it. For the music, can't you just listen to recordings from live concerts? Those usually have plenty of crowd noise.

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Post by spdionis »

Mediterraneo10 wrote: post #199
CaptainZapp wrote: post #184

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> I'm pretty sure nothing's going to change in the next 5 years. Given the speed in which effective vaccines were developed I think this is a rather bleak outlook. Sure, a lot is still unknown with the new virus variants and as has been expected vaccination drives had their teething problems. But in a few month time (almost) everybody who wants their jabs can get it (in rich countries, that is). I for one, see myself…

It is worth reading what the epidemologists advising Western governments actually think. Many of them are arguing for social distancing and border closures to continue until the entire world is vaccinated, regardless of how many people are vaccinated within your own country. That is expected to take probably until 2026, so the OP's worries about five years are founded. Some outliers among those advisors are even argu…

That would be pretty dystopian.

Re: I Miss My Bar

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Post by standardUser »

Mediterraneo10 wrote: post #199
CaptainZapp wrote: post #184

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I'm pretty sure nothing's going to change in the next 5 years. Given the speed in which effective vaccines were developed I think this is a rather bleak outlook. Sure, a lot is still unknown with the new virus variants and as has been expected vaccination drives had their teething problems. But in a few month time (almost) everybody who wants their jabs can get it (in rich countries, that is). I for one, see myself…

It is worth reading what the epidemologists advising Western governments actually think. Many of them are arguing for social distancing and border closures to continue until the entire world is vaccinated, regardless of how many people are vaccinated within your own country. That is expected to take probably until 2026, so the OP's worries about five years are founded. Some outliers among those advisors are even argu…

Thank god the epidemiologists are not the ones making policy. Most state and local governments in the US have not shown a willingness to follow such a hardline approach, and we're already seeing reopenings as numbers drop, long before the vaccine has even had a major impact.

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Post by _Microft »

RalfWausE wrote: post #31

I think the psychological toll of the lockdowns in different countries is highly underestimated. I myself have no real economical shortcomings due to the lockdown, but even as a person who is normaly a total loner and who can spend weeks completely alone on a excessive hiking trip i am slowly going crazy... For my wife, who is a highly social character, its even worse. And i am not the only one in this mindset... wha…

I bet it is.

Sadly, this is a self-inflicted problem. Instead of trying to understand the purpose of the imposed measures and trying to maximize their impact to get us through this as fast as possible, lots of people saw them as pure nuisance instead. They tried to bend the rules to work around them and so we are still stuck with these measures for far longer than would have been necessary otherwise.

Now we all reap what they sowed.

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Post by mensetmanusman »

globular-toast wrote: post #200
mensetmanusman wrote: post #186

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GTP-3?

Not the first time someone has suggested that. here, ill right like a moron so you know imz a realboi

These are great inside jokes, there was one thread where myself and another both accused each other of being GTP-3 (not realizing until later).

Especially in this age where all of our interactions are through text, and there lingers the possibility that everyone else does not exist, solipsism is becoming increasingly true.

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Post by mikestew »

brodouevencode wrote: post #198

Me being a meathead thought this was about lifting weights.

Yeah, we miss that, too. My wife bought a gym membership at the local "meathead" gym (i. e., not a national franchise) right before I went into the hospital December 2019. While I spent about three months and another surgery recovering, man, I was going to so hit that gym when I was ready. Yeah, well, I was ready to hit that gym smack in the middle of March 2020.

Point is, we paid for a year's membership we never used. And we're going to pay again this year just so the place stays in business (Eastside Gym for you Redmond, WA folks). One of these years we'll actually darken the doorstep of the place. In the meantime, our garage now has a new treadmill and rowing machine, and I finally tracked down some adjustable dumbbells. I'm a distance runner, so that should tide us over. If you're a lifter and don't have a big stack of plates at home already, my sympathies.

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