I’ve been saying “take care” as a shorthand for “I care about you and your wellbeing but we’re not actually that close.” Although now I’m WFH and only talking in person to my husband, and phone/video chat to family and close friends.
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That is heartbreaking but your mom is smart. If her house and weather are amenable, you could stand outside her window and call her. It’s cute, totally not creepy
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Not creepy at all, that’s the type of thing we would both laugh at!
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I’m in the same boat. I usually see my parents once a week, but now I don’t know when I’ll be able to actually spend time with them now. We stood on opposite sides of the driveway and talked over the weekend for a few minutes when I dropped some stuff off at their house. Are you in the US? Nicer weather is coming and I’m hoping I’ll be able to spend time with family and friends by sitting outside together with plenty of distance between us.
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Omg…I haven’t read the article yet but Spain just requisitioned it’s private healthcare!!! Yaaas drastic measures!!!
Yesss it can be done!!!
Yesss I had a baby so if they run out of useful medical personnel and the Canadian government calls up the massage therapists I dont have to.
Also they are doing good things with our EI right now
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Like this!
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I don’t have tylenol/fever reducers or clorox wipes, and I’m debating whether it makes more sense to go out and buy some while I don’t feel sick or to continue self-isolating and hope I don’t get sick. The only household cleaners I have are Trader Joe’s and Mrs. Meyers all purpose, which I’m pretty sure don’t kill the virus. If I do go out, it will be early when the store opens, and I’ll check the stock beforehand. Same with going to the laundromat (I’d like to wash my bedding; my clothes I can handwash).
I’m trying to weigh the risks. I feel like these are essential items/tasks, but I don’t want to be irresponsible. Has anyone heard/read any guidance on this?
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What about ordering online and having them delivered?
So that’s both disability rights and air quality that have been proven POSSIBLE to fix, within a matter of weeks not years or decades or generations. I have no delusion people will go back to business as usual when this is over, I just wish they would be honest with themselves.
As humans we do not fix things because we do not like sacrifice or inconvenience, and we don’t want to accept that we can’t have absolutely everything we want all the time in the easiest possible way. It is NOT because everything is sooooo complicated and impossible to fix. If our own resistance to change minor behaviors for the greater good is too morally uncomfortable to think about and accept…perhaps the behaviors need to change.
#endrant
(This is all general, not intended to be directed at any individuals here)
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Sending you hugs. I can only imagine the emotions that you have to be feeling right now.
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I’m not crying. Someone just started cutting onions, I swear.
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EXACTLY.
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UK guidance is now that anyone living with someone with symptoms should “not leave the house” for 14 days - so I guess that means cancelling seeing my family on my birthday, choir book club and birthday party. I don’t know if we’re still allowed to go on a walk etc. And I guess we might have to ask someone to get groceries for us? At least we have a little bit of garden which is presumably ok, which might be .
Man, it’s so hard to concentrate today.
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I want this cross stitched on a pillow.
Also many many 
to you.
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Also water pollution (including silt and debris stirred up by all the traffic that would normally just be dirt at the bottom of the canal)
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That might be an option for the wipes… For tylenol, most places are either out of stock, or they don’t deliver. I think I will do delivery for what I can now and keep an eye out for items back in stock.
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I noticed Tylenol is out of stock on Amazon, but Midol is not. Midol is also acetaminophen, just with some caffeine added.
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My climbing gym finally closed. 
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PHEW!!