March 16th, 2020 at 7:32 PM
I'm actually loving the panic right now.
We're decently stocked up on food rn if shit hits the fan. No need for like 100s of rolls of TP when I can get a bidet from Amazon for like 30$ if need be, but my family usually keeps a pretty hefty amount of non-perishables in the basement anyway, like bags of rice, lots of boxes of instant ramen, canned checkpeas and tomatos, etc. basically everything that has decent nutritional value. We topped it up over the last few days because of the panic. Not that we want a massive stockpile, but shelves are running low or empty in some grocery stores, so best to just make sure we have enough if that keeps up and not for if the virus goes crazy and all of a sudden 70% of the city gets infected.
My in-person classes are cancelled for the time being until they can be fully put online, but the University campus is still open and is operating as usual (normal office hours for professors, other student and admission services same business). I needed to talk to a professor about a grade I got a while ago. Wasn't a bad grade, but I'm just not sure about one of the questions and I reckon it'll be on my next midterm so I wanted to get it clarified. Well, I forgot the assignment at home and only realized after my 1hr+ commute to campus, so scrapped the idea of seeing the prof. and instead decided to go study for a bit in my fave building with all the nice study rooms.
These rooms are usually full-capacity or more (people stealing chairs from other rooms) but right now, I'm sitting here and it's probably like 5-10% full. Everything is nice and clean (probably recently sanitized over the weekend) and since services are operating as normal, our Health Promotion student service (free pregnancy/carbon monoxide/drug/HIV testing and other goodies) gives out free hand sanitizer bottles to anyone who asks. Luckily, barely anyone even knows they exist, so they're stocked up and they love when anyone drops by. There's like 0% risk of being infected here. We've only broken two confirmed cases in a week, both completely unrelated and both only began to show symptoms very, very recently and came into contact with almost no-one before then. Neither of them are students or have any relation to students as far as we know, too, so again campus should be fine.
On a slightly unrelated note, Rant Time.
I talked to one of my friends recently whom I met with for a crazy acid trip back in early february (2nd or something?)
He's a few years younger than me, just graduating HS now, and he's Polish, as am I, so we mainly got to know each other through mutual friends in the Polish community here. No, I'm not corrupting the youth with illicit substances, he does shrooms all the time too. Chill.
Well, his mom was recently in Poland to visit family since the flights were a bit cheaper before spring break and all that. During that time, Poland experienced its first few cases of Corona. So her stay ended, she came back on schedule.
The very next day, Poland closed its borders. All incoming and outgoing flights cancelled until further notice.
She was incredibly lucky, and is currently sitting in self-quarantine (with my boy) at home to make sure she didn't contract anything. They're both healthy and happy as far as we can all tell, though, but precautions are good and employers in my area are generally pretty understanding of that because they also don't want to get sick.
And now we're seeing Trudeau closed Canada's borders for flights today as well.
(wtf Trudeau raysis now????)
Anyway, my family met with mutual friends of my boy and his family two days ago on Saturday.
And ngl, I kinda hate them a lot. Two parents and a daughter, daughter wasn't there though. But the mom is high-key insane, even though we all pretend not to notice (except myself since I don't take bullshit from people, be shitty, go f*** yourself). The subject of my friend's mom came up, because they knew she was taking a trip and apparently this woman has been calling her place since she was supposed to get back, getting no reply. So, of course she starts running her mouth that either friend's mom got stuck back in Poland, or is just ignoring her by not answering, and getting heated for literally no reason. Typical.
Well, I chime in, since I do know about the situation. I tell her that friend's mom is currently in self-quarantine, she got lucky and managed to get back the day before borders closed. Then she flips her shit like 'why isn't she picking up the phone? She's ignoring me? She's sick so she's in quarantine now????' the usual over-reaction you'd get from her.
And, well, I don't take this kinda bullshit.
"No, she just might be at risk because of the cases in Poland plus the risk of flights with an infected person or being in close proximity like at the airport with someone who may be infected. She's taking the normal precaution to self-quarantine, that doesn't mean she's sick. I shouldn't have to f*** explain this shit. Cut the woman some slack. She's got more important shit like the illness on her mind, calling friends can f*** wait until she's confirmed safe. It's not about you, for f*** sake."
That's mostly in-quote from what I remember. She was a little pissed, needless to say.
Most Polskis are like this in my area. I find it pretty unbearable so I try not to associate with them too much, but if I'm forced to, I'm not afraid to call out their bullshit.
Rant over.
We're decently stocked up on food rn if shit hits the fan. No need for like 100s of rolls of TP when I can get a bidet from Amazon for like 30$ if need be, but my family usually keeps a pretty hefty amount of non-perishables in the basement anyway, like bags of rice, lots of boxes of instant ramen, canned checkpeas and tomatos, etc. basically everything that has decent nutritional value. We topped it up over the last few days because of the panic. Not that we want a massive stockpile, but shelves are running low or empty in some grocery stores, so best to just make sure we have enough if that keeps up and not for if the virus goes crazy and all of a sudden 70% of the city gets infected.
My in-person classes are cancelled for the time being until they can be fully put online, but the University campus is still open and is operating as usual (normal office hours for professors, other student and admission services same business). I needed to talk to a professor about a grade I got a while ago. Wasn't a bad grade, but I'm just not sure about one of the questions and I reckon it'll be on my next midterm so I wanted to get it clarified. Well, I forgot the assignment at home and only realized after my 1hr+ commute to campus, so scrapped the idea of seeing the prof. and instead decided to go study for a bit in my fave building with all the nice study rooms.
These rooms are usually full-capacity or more (people stealing chairs from other rooms) but right now, I'm sitting here and it's probably like 5-10% full. Everything is nice and clean (probably recently sanitized over the weekend) and since services are operating as normal, our Health Promotion student service (free pregnancy/carbon monoxide/drug/HIV testing and other goodies) gives out free hand sanitizer bottles to anyone who asks. Luckily, barely anyone even knows they exist, so they're stocked up and they love when anyone drops by. There's like 0% risk of being infected here. We've only broken two confirmed cases in a week, both completely unrelated and both only began to show symptoms very, very recently and came into contact with almost no-one before then. Neither of them are students or have any relation to students as far as we know, too, so again campus should be fine.
On a slightly unrelated note, Rant Time.
I talked to one of my friends recently whom I met with for a crazy acid trip back in early february (2nd or something?)
He's a few years younger than me, just graduating HS now, and he's Polish, as am I, so we mainly got to know each other through mutual friends in the Polish community here. No, I'm not corrupting the youth with illicit substances, he does shrooms all the time too. Chill.
Well, his mom was recently in Poland to visit family since the flights were a bit cheaper before spring break and all that. During that time, Poland experienced its first few cases of Corona. So her stay ended, she came back on schedule.
The very next day, Poland closed its borders. All incoming and outgoing flights cancelled until further notice.
She was incredibly lucky, and is currently sitting in self-quarantine (with my boy) at home to make sure she didn't contract anything. They're both healthy and happy as far as we can all tell, though, but precautions are good and employers in my area are generally pretty understanding of that because they also don't want to get sick.
And now we're seeing Trudeau closed Canada's borders for flights today as well.
(wtf Trudeau raysis now????)
Anyway, my family met with mutual friends of my boy and his family two days ago on Saturday.
And ngl, I kinda hate them a lot. Two parents and a daughter, daughter wasn't there though. But the mom is high-key insane, even though we all pretend not to notice (except myself since I don't take bullshit from people, be shitty, go f*** yourself). The subject of my friend's mom came up, because they knew she was taking a trip and apparently this woman has been calling her place since she was supposed to get back, getting no reply. So, of course she starts running her mouth that either friend's mom got stuck back in Poland, or is just ignoring her by not answering, and getting heated for literally no reason. Typical.
Well, I chime in, since I do know about the situation. I tell her that friend's mom is currently in self-quarantine, she got lucky and managed to get back the day before borders closed. Then she flips her shit like 'why isn't she picking up the phone? She's ignoring me? She's sick so she's in quarantine now????' the usual over-reaction you'd get from her.
And, well, I don't take this kinda bullshit.
"No, she just might be at risk because of the cases in Poland plus the risk of flights with an infected person or being in close proximity like at the airport with someone who may be infected. She's taking the normal precaution to self-quarantine, that doesn't mean she's sick. I shouldn't have to f*** explain this shit. Cut the woman some slack. She's got more important shit like the illness on her mind, calling friends can f*** wait until she's confirmed safe. It's not about you, for f*** sake."
That's mostly in-quote from what I remember. She was a little pissed, needless to say.
Most Polskis are like this in my area. I find it pretty unbearable so I try not to associate with them too much, but if I'm forced to, I'm not afraid to call out their bullshit.
Rant over.
