The way we live now - how will covid-19 change us?

oh yeah i graduated from indiana's community college system, they were overenrolled and had a totally inadequate informational infrastructure for the students they were trying to support, i know a lot of people complain at the growing percentage of administrative staff versus direct teaching staff but my experience is that administrative staff are there because they are needed

I can't imagine anyone wanting to go to the dentist for the foreseeable future.

Oh yeah that reminds me, I have a hygienist appointment next week and they haven’t called to cancel

Dentists are pretty damn clean! Feel safer w/them than w/my kids' grubby hands tbh

I'm hesitant at this point to speculate about this stuff, but perhaps post-pandemic there'll be less pissing & moaning about 1st world problems. "____ is annoying, but hey at least I can shoot down the store and known they'll have toilet paper and pasta for me." "this month has kinda sucked for me, but at least I can go out for a drink with friends now" etc.

Yeah, in line with that I've been thinking we might see a long-overdue swell of appreciation for all of the generally unrecognized people who help keep our fragile systems in good working order. There were a lot of unsung heroes involved in getting that apple into your hand!

In a better world, yes, but in this world nah. People will immediately revert back to "$15 AN HOUR TO FLIP BURGERS THE ABSOLUTE NERVE"

Me, I’m hoping we get back to “first world problems” being a dumb and shitty phrase that posits problems of the developed world as being de facto luxuries as opposed to seeing conditions in the developing world as extra unacceptable

Like “1st world problems” is exactly the phrase people would use to say “you’re complaining about $15 an hour but you have running water, gtfo”

I imagine in Roman times plebeians would say shit like 'your indentured servitude is a fucking cakewalk compared to REAL slavery'.

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People in the “third world” can take the piss out of “third world problems” otherwise I think it’s more regressive than not

Uh *”first world problems”

People in the “third world” can take the piss out of “first world problems” otherwise I think it’s more regressive than not

Good rule of thumb.

If this kills air bnb I'll be happy

I can definitely see this impacting e.g. the norms of internat'l travel (in that we'll see less of it, both voluntarily and by mandate), but it's really hard for me to imagine a world without live music, mainly because such a world is too depressing to countenance.

folks, what is the consensus around getting takeaway food

we've been cooking happily for a week but i rly, rly would love a pizza or such. would i be supporting local businesses or putting myself/others at risk

10 days, not a week

I have been wondering the same, eventually I'm afraid the urge is gonna win out but I don't want it to be suicide pizza

I found this article helpful: https://www.seriouseats.com/2020/03/food-safety-and-coronavirus-a-comprehensive-guide.html

I went to the chippy yesterday. Didn't touch door handle, food all handled with tongs, contactless payment, in and out in 2 mins. takeaway is prob safer than food shopping.

judging from that article it suggests it's riskier getting groceries and cooking yourself since the person stocking the groceries may be less following less stringent sanitation guidelines than the cook

if your food has a lone virion on it, you’d have to intensely smear the food on your hands then purposely rub them in your eyes and up your nose

so the consensus is that takeaway is fine? so long as you kind of avoid the courier?

yeah I got a pizza yesterday and I made sure to keep my distance. when they insisted on getting within two inches of me, I kicked the delivery driver in the ribs and then put their car in reverse.

had to be sure

This is the thread for “how will this event permanently change the way we live” not for more endless fearful nattering about whether touching anything that comes from outside is fucking going to kill you or not

that's true, but I didn't want to ruin any of the ongoing other threads with a relatively trivial concern

to bring the thread back into form I can safely speculate that when this is all over I will be spending a lot more time in pizzaerias and eating pretty much only pizza, with and/or around other people

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has gyac or an other posted about the airbnb thing

the ireland air bnb rental market thing?

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I posted about a Berlin based pal who has lost his airbnb income stream from other half of his flat which has left him skint and going to sign on das dole!

I was thinking about changes in everyday life while out walking today. (Didn't get within 10 feet of anyone, promise.)

9/11 -- airports, increased government surveillance
Katrina -- much better preparedness
2008 financial meltdown -- evidently, not much
Various mass shootings -- nothing

I'm sure changes will be massive here. Mostly good, I hope, invariably some bad.

has gyac or an other posted about the airbnb thing

that's true, but I didn't want to ruin any of the ongoing other threads with a relatively trivial concern

I can't work out if people are going to be super tactile when this is finally over or the exact opposite.

People are going to be getting laid all over the place and there's probably going to be a big spike in extra-marital affairs and/or break-ups. The people with solid marriages are really gonna know how solid they are.

available rentals are up 64% in dublin since airbnb landlords/companies started dumping about four days ago

2 beds in good areas down from 3500 to 2250 etc etc

1200 properties all a sudden up for long term rents that were short term only before

speculation that 5k properties within dublin will be available by the end of this

this genie isnt going back into the box

Gonna be curious to see the stats on fatal auto accidents during this period vs the same period in prior years.

i actually thought of you when i saw that air bnb ireland thing! xpost

thoughts, prayers and a 30% rent reduction all welcome at this difficult time

I was thinking today about my grandfather and how obsessive he was about always having extra food around because he lived through the Depression, and realizing that we're all going to be like that from now on.

...im kinda like that about some things since a rotten childhood tbh so 🤷‍♂️ i guess

i think i inherited all my extra food having in my home from my mom (oldest of five brothers and was very poor). it's come in handy several times now.

I've been obsessive about having a well-stocked pantry and other vital supplies purchased ahead of need ever since I had enough money to stop living hand to mouth. Houses, tools, food, medicines are all tangible. Money is largely theoretical. I always take care of the tangibles first, savings second, with investments well back in third place.

when i got married and my parents came up for the small dinner she brought me, from several states over, a huge kirkland pack of toilet paper, two watermelons, a large bottle of olive oil and a plant.

A friend of mine when i was a kid, his elderly Ukrainian dad used to have stockpiles of tinned vegetables and tomatoes in the cellar, probably loads of them out of date i would speculate. he'd emigrated to the UK in the late 30's so might have known a thing or two about food shortages.

I don't do airbnb but as I work in the sector I do host a lot of international students, this way I can afford to pay the rent on a decent-sized house, obviously this particular short/medium-term plan is fucked now.

If we can get a couple of lodgers it will be ok, but there are none out there right now, of course.

living in the same space that you have an air bnb'er was initially the spirit of it at first and it was great until people turned it into a professional sort of enterprise.

I think one of the major ones is going to be mass depression, a widespread mental health crisis.