Lockdown 2.0

linebaugh

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I do feel a bit of my prime is being robbed of me. Not that I'm the only one to have plans stalled, but I feel by the time were past this my covid mindframe will be so crystallized I won't find the gumption to pick them up again.
 

yyaldrin

in je ogen waait de wind
i'm dreading it as well. i'm gonna try and live very organized and sober the next few months, i can't have any hangovers or comedowns when i feel bad already. when it's cold already. when it's dark.
 

woops

is not like other people
I've found it containable for the most part. Couple of wobbly moments during lockdown. But I'd rather it disappeared entirely
i don't mean in myself, that is subject to many factors aside from covid. i mean in what i see out and about. more aggression and frustration in daily life.
 

luka

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i don't mean in myself, that is subject to many factors aside from covid. i mean in what i see out and about. more aggression and frustration in daily life.

I see. I feel I've seen a lot less and a lot more friendliness and openness but maybe that's cos I live in leafy posh Greenwich and not the slums of Stoke Newington
 

Leo

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vast majority of people on the street wearing masks, people seem to have accepted it. low-grade frustration and mild anxiety seem about right, coupled with being grumpily resigned to a lost summer.

where are there packed bars? they just started to allow 25% capacity indoors around me.
 

version

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Is it safe?
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version

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The semi-self-imposed psychological restrictions are difficult to break down. I could wander off somewhere right now, stop washing my hands etc but there's this invisible barrier there, the same one that stops you jumping off a tall building. The internalised fear of the virus and the general atmosphere of going about as normal just not being what you do now feels like a prison. The prison's erected inside your head as much as it is outside your body.
 

luka

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What restrictions have you been putting on yourself? I'm back on public transport most days. Talking to strangers including the mad/homeless and handling cash most days. I wash my hands when I can but even there I'm getting pretty slack. Not complacency so much as having reached a limit
 
I had a thought today, it's not just about layoffs and unemployment now, it's millions more jobs that will never, ever exist in the future because the economic web has been irreparably torn apart. What came out of the 30s depression was hellishly dark, but this makes that look mild. Governments are dangerous and should be banned.
 

version

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What restrictions have you been putting on yourself? I'm back on public transport most days. Talking to strangers including the mad/homeless and handling cash most days. I wash my hands when I can but even there I'm getting pretty slack. Not complacency so much as having reached a limit
I wipe down the packaging of any food I buy with disinfectant, wash my hands a lot, don't really go out anywhere. I've seen one friend since Christmas Eve and I've only seen him once.
 

yyaldrin

in je ogen waait de wind
I wipe down the packaging of any food I buy with disinfectant, wash my hands a lot, don't really go out anywhere. I've seen one friend since Christmas Eve and I've only seen him once.
you've seen only one friend since christmas? that's mental. who do you talk to?
 
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luka

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I wipe down the packaging of any food I buy with disinfectant, wash my hands a lot, don't really go out anywhere. I've seen one friend since Christmas Eve and I've only seen him once.

That's very very extreme. I would suggest loosening up unless you're immunocompromised but that's just me.
 
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