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Dealing with COVID-19

What effect is the pandemic having on your mental health?

  • It is making it easier

    Votes: 16 24.6%

  • It is making it harder

    Votes: 49 75.4%
  • Total voters
    65
hehe to cheer people up.Comedy my last line to fight the darkness and depression well get through this.I cant wait till things go back to normal without having to wear a doctors mask, in the meantime even on commercials wearing a mask is the norm.This pandemic sucks. Its so annoying, frustrating and the quarantine it sucks i feel lonely. I have to take my meds more gah.Im feeling sleepy took my medication im so tired ill post tommorrow i need a nap.
 
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So we mask figuratively, and physically. The world just did a 180, and it's now Autistic Disneyland. We stay 6 feet apart, we can't see expressions, we make way less connections. Everyone one on the planet masks. Kinda of ironic.

What do you think???
 
I have no problem with the social distancing. I like that people are (hopefully) 2 meters away and not so likely to touch me, that shops/cafes/restaurants/public transport are only half full. Not so keen on the masks, they are uncomfortable to wear and a 'necessary evil' as far as I'm concerned.
 
Ever since the pandemic my monthly trash fee has gone up and up and up. Effectively doubled. $44.75 for my four 13-gallon bags of trash per month.

I realize the overage reflecting so many people at home is making things more difficult for waste management, but consider all those customers who may be out of work and simply don't have the money to pay for such unforeseen expenses.

Must be nice though for $hareholder$, officers and directors of Waste Management. Which sort of reminds me of the concept of war profiteering. And essentially as a monopoly there's nothing I can do about it. :mad::mad::mad:

Very tough to deal with. Pay the added fees or buy medicine that would have helped me. My budget gets tighter every month with no end in sight. :oops:
 
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Judge said:
Ever since the pandemic my monthly trash fee has gone up and up and up. Effectively doubled. $44.75 for my four 13-gallon bags of trash per month.

I realize the overage reflecting so many people at home is making things more difficult for waste management, but consider all those customers who may be out of work and simply don't have the money to pay for such unforeseen expenses.

Must be nice though for $hareholder$, officers and directors of Waste Management. Which sort of reminds me of the concept of war profiteering. And essentially as a monopoly there's nothing I can do about it. :mad::mad::mad:

Very tough to deal with. Pay the added fees or buy medicine that would have helped me. My budget gets tighter every month with no end in sight. :oops:
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That's outrageous about the increased garbage fee. Maybe call WM and see if they will discount you for a couple of months?

Food is more expensive, too. The price of bread, whole chickens, and ground beef have nearly doubled here in the past 3 months. Now is a good time to become vegetarian. I don't know what is going to happen to all the people who have lost their jobs and will soon lose their homes unless Congress does something fast. Unemployment benefits are ending unless the politicians can get their acts together and agree on something.

Gasoline is very cheap but that's no wonder because few people are driving anywhere. Where would we go? Can't go to restaurants, sporting events, etc. Afraid to get on an airplane and go somewhere else.

I'm trying to resign myself to the need to just stay at home, avoid this disease, and try to keep our sanity.
 
People need to start growing their own food, unfortunately most Americans have forgotten how to gather/grow and prepare anything not from a grocery store. I was incredulous to read about people starving in places like Jefferson/north California when there is an abundance of natural food all around them. Nobody knows how to prepare acorns, fish for salmon (and then butcher and cook it)? Here in Sacramento I can understand people not having any natural food, my father kept spraying Roundup on this acre I live on now and now the ground is useless for agriculture. During the Great Depression my grandfather was kicked out of his house at 15 (that was common then, people had many children and little money so when a child became old enough to fend for himself out the door he went) and he went into the wild and lived in the mountains and panned for gold to sell for bullets for his hunting rifle. People now are fat and lazy and eat chemicals disguised as food. Many people can't "cook" anything more complex than a TV Dinner. By the time of the election I hopefully will be off my mom's acre and on my own 2.7 acres up north. The challenge will be to survive the winter.
 
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People need to start growing their own food, unfortunately most Americans have forgotten how to gather/grow and prepare anything not from a grocery store. I was incredulous to read about people starving in places like Jefferson/north California when there is an abundance of natural food all around them. Nobody knows how to prepare acorns, fish for salmon (and then butcher and cook it)? Here in Sacramento I can understand people not having any natural food, my father kept spraying Roundup on this acre I live on now and now the ground is useless for agriculture. During the Great Depressi:rolleyes:on my grandfather was kicked out of his house at 15 (that was common then, people had many children and little money so when a child became old enough to fend for himself out the door he went) and he went into the wild and lived in the mountains and panned for gold to sell for bullets for his hunting rifle. People now are fat and lazy and eat chemicals disguised as food. Many people can't "cook" anything more complex than a TV Dinner. By the time of the election I hopefully will be off my mom's acre and on my own 2.7 acres up north. The challenge will be to survive the winter.
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Many people live in cities where they lack the means to grow their own food. Most people who live in the more rural areas know how to grow food but have gotten lazy about doing it. And food must be properly preserved to eat later. I can no longer find canning jars in my area because people have bought out the stores. For a long time, there was no yeast or flour in stores to bake bread but the stores have them now.

I have a dehydrating function in my electric stove which I played with the other day. I dried a quart jar of habaneros, and a quart of cayenne peppers, and stored them in glass jars, and dried a quart of cherry tomatoes which I put in the freezer. All of those are nutritious and will add good flavor to food later this winter, and I grew all of them in my backyard for the cost of pennies.

Incredibly, I know some Gen X'ers who refuse to touch raw chicken. LOL :rolleyes: They want to buy only boneless, skinless chicken strips (yuck) on which they use tongs rather than their fingers, and freak out when there aren't any in the stores. They have no concept of buying a whole chicken and cutting it up themselves! Americans sure have gotten soft over the past few decades. Hope nothing worse than this pandemic comes along or society will totally collapse. :eek:

Go for it, Oregano. You have little to lose but please be safe as you make the transition! :)

Edit: Your comment reminded me of the great potato famine in Ireland. That country is surrounded by sea but the diet was totally land based in those days. They could have eaten the abundance of the sea and survived! But they didn't do that for reasons I don't understand.
 
@Mary Terry, the Hmong here in Sacramento literally grow veggies in the drainage ditches that run between houses and apartment buildings on the north side. The north side was once a big horse ranch so there were lots of gullies and such for the horses to have water, and they served as drainage so the land wouldn't flood. When the area urbanized the gullies were kept out of necessity, and they were never paved. Also the Hmong who own homes usually rip out the backyards and grow stuff. Unless one lives in New York City or something, a lot of urbanized America consists of single homes on lots. It would be theoretically possible to grow food.

I'm an Xer myself, and I have lots of those boneless skinless chicken breasts in my freezer since for a while that was the best chicken meat available in stores. I do touch them with my hands though. :p I have my grandmother's old meat cleaver, in those days chickens were whole and the housewife chopped them up herself. I can't wait to use it. :D

I remember going to the store the day the quarantine was announced in the Bay Area (it was another couple days before it was declared here and I wanted to get a leg up) and there was still a good number of mega packs of chicken breasts and steaks. The checkout lines were filled with people who had frozen pizzas and the like piled in their carts, and the freezer section was completely wiped out. Yet there was still raw meat available. :eek:o_O My aunt's freezer is filled to the brim with processed meat and frozen microwave "food". Mine is full of raw meat. :D

IMO our society is one unexpected nudge from irrevocable system failure at this point. The TV reporters will happily cover it...until it dawns on them that they too are now part of the wretched masses, that there is no army to rescue them, and that there are no businesses to buy ads to pay their salaries. The last TV broadcasts before the power is cut will be them begging for rescue. It will be like those apocalyptic movies where the last scene is the last survivor begging and begging into a jerryrigged radio for help, and getting no reply.

The Irish diet in 1840 was almost exclusively potatoes. They ate no fish despite being surrounded by ocean. When the potato crops failed, they starved to death because it never occurred to the to catch fish.
 
I'm going to thaw out a flank steak today, slice it as thin as possible, season it with dried spices, and make jerky in the oven dehydrator. It's a good snack and there are no preservatives in it. Husband will eat it all, I'm sure, but that's okay!
 
Mary Terry said:
That's outrageous about the increased garbage fee. Maybe call WM and see if they will discount you for a couple of months?
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Seems the management of our apartment complex will attempt this. Though I suspect it will fall on deaf ears given the amount of pure profit being raised in doubling fees for every household as opposed to only those who fail to live up to the contractual terms of our lease and are surcharged accordingly.

The thing is that this action is happening just as evictions can again lawfully take place, with Congress arguing over compensation badly needed by those who have not only lost their job, but involve work that may not even be there once a vaccine is found and distributed. WM couldn't have chosen a worse time to become unfairly punitive than now. With any governmental oversight of them largely just "missing in action".
 
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Aspergers_Aspie said:
This is happening in Australia:-

Top cop's message to people who think they don't need to wind down their windows to police | Daily Mail Online
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Sovereign citizen movement - Wikipedia

The Sovereign Citizen cult has been around for a lot longer than the coronavirus. I've heard that the term originated in England due to members there rejecting their legal status as subjects of the monarch, instead seeing themselves as "sovereign citizens" of a future British Republic, but most sovereign citizens are in the US, and their arguments are rooted in American cultural traditions. The Wikipedia article does note that Commonwealth nations with England-derived cultures have smaller but similar movements, and there is also a group in southern Germany and Austria that is similar. The social upheaval of the plague may have spurred a growth of the SC cult in Australia, with members learning of it from the internet.
 
Sunflower badge - hidden disability

"Hidden Disabilities has created a face covering exemption card for people to wear when they go to the supermarket that will indicate to staff they have a valid reason not to wear a face covering.

The company's website adds: 'Businesses who are members of the scheme are aware of our card and provide support, help, assistance or simply a little more time to those wearing the Hidden Disabilities Sunflower.

However, please note that shops and public transport can still refuse you entry if you are not wearing a face covering.' "


Why some people are wearing sunflower badges in Scottish supermarkets
 
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