Covid19 - what have you been doing?

So it's like the 8th week of lockdown here in the UK, so there is very little to do and we can't go out. I have seen so many people being creative and using the isolation time to learn something new. I wish that was me!

I have made a few new friends and got a call from my favourite band (!!) but I haven't done much else.

People have been growing new things, making log burners

 

I’m fortunate enough to live in a place where the police don’t intimidate you for going outside.

With everything going on, I’ve continued to go to work and go about life. I am learning about forex trading because the market became hyper volatile. Made more than I lost so far.

 

i've been working a lot. slightly less than before, but still too much.

 

Iv used the time to get all the jobs done around the house and the gardens. Looking forward to getting back to graft now though.

 

Spend much of my time working out despite not having access to a gym. Being outdoors when the weather is nice. I'll read from time to time. Also spend a lot of time doing difficult level sudoku, kakuro, kenken, and picture puzzles. Late at night i often watch a movie.

 

well i've discovered the tv works after all, but just kind of wierdly, or to me its weird anyway.
turn it on, turn the sound off (so i don't give neighbors the idea i would want to have to listen to theirs)
set it to the one channel for the tuner box, then individually punch in the numbers on a remote for the tuner box.
the scan up and down and almost nothing else works on it, but it can set two stations to flip back and forth between,
and there's captioning that can be turned on and off) of course it only takes three days to see everything that will continue to be repeated for the next six months,
but it was fun for the first three days to discover this. i'd still rather have the space it occupies be more shelves for books and tools and everything else.

wish there were more book stores, cheap second hand ones, not just barnie's snow balls that i can't even afford, even with their discount card.
need more mystery of how not who (in other words real science fiction) books to read i haven't already read the print off of

just playin with trains and makin pictures.
and dreaming about gardens and forests and that post ecopocalytic world,
inherited by sapient pointy ears and floofy tails,
where cities and cars and money and guns have all become obsolete.

 

Really? Is it forbidden to go out in the UK?

Here it is normally 2 days of the week only.

Corona virus itself says that it only works in the weekends here. So we are locked down in the weekends.

 

It is not too bad, but with all the towns and cities joining up, we have to be careful, since it can spread like a forest fire.
We need to go out, but Jane and our youngest daughter are both working from home, so our exposure to other people is cut by more than 90% and we a comply with social distancing as much as possible.

Ireland have an interesting approach, where people are not allowed to travel to another town for ANY reason, thus keeping any outbreak confined.
In cities and large towns it is much the same as the UK. In smaller towns less restrictions are enforced and in remote farming villages it is almost business as normal, except that people cannot go into town for recreation.
No one is allowed to drive more than 2 km from home and taxis are generally shut down. The borders to Northern to northern Ireland are virtually closed.

 

I seem to have spent quite a lot of time explaining how viruses mutate and work, the path from a virus to eventual bacterial infection and possible death and how herd immunity works.
I have spent a lot of time explaining that the real number of deaths in the UK will entirely rely on the NHS not being overwhelmed by the virus, but equally being able to deal with the illnesses (cardiac and respiratory arrest, cancer, diabetes) and many others that lead to 542 000 deaths every year in he UK.
Many people are taking a far too simplistic outlook on the overall situation.

 

Righto

 

on the computer mostly, but as much and more time on it making pictures, and on the net. you're right though, playin with trains is what i live for. playin with that includes designing, creating, simulating. along with the worlds and physical aspects they serve. very small trains were the first thing i fell in love with, when i was too small to go out and discover nature. both have stayed with me as a perspective ever since.

 

you are an economist

the artwork is nice

 

I recommend being careful with forex. I don't know too much about it, but everyone I've known that's gotten into it has lost. I think you can lose more than the amount that you initially put down.

 

elizabeth warren is an economist. i'm a small furry green thing from alpha cenaturi.

(one of these statements is more accurate then the other)(hint, the world of my previous birth is not in the centauri system)

 

I dont believe in being careful for corona.

 

viruses don't believe in humans. they just mutate whatever way is convenient to them.

 

got myself a 40oz corona after yesterday. went to church today seen familia<3

 

Rona is a woman. so you callin' the little girl an x-man???

 

i guess, been so long since i thought in social terms, other then about what everyone has to experience.
anyway things that i do aren't really affected by saying in as they're all inside by myself things anyway.
i mean i like to get out and walk around and ride public transit when i can,
but resteraunts and hobby shops are closed, which there weren't any of the latter in the town where i live any more,
so most of what i went out for anyway was to do laundry and grocery. not sure what i'm gonna do about laundry, unless there's one open somewhere.
which there might be, i just haven't yet checked. eight weeks nine weeks, whatever its been, groceries, what i can carry, last a week and a half.
so really, not going out hasn't changed much of anything in my life.

x-men are ok, but u.s. comics still too over the top for me, even with marvel trying to make them more real.
furry manga better, but independents being squeezed out everywhere from what i hear from some of them.

everyone should have ears and tails, we'd all look better. fur and feathers and scales in odd, creative and aesthetic combinations, and wild colors.
if i could change my dna and still have a creative mind and opposable thumbs i would. (can't even afford a fur suit, or have room and tools to make one)

 

It has been 51 days since.