This Thread Blows - C19 and beyond

1speed said:
Wanderers by Chuck Wendig ... 😉
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A dystopian, apocalyptic novel that comfortably occupies a space between horror and science fiction, Wanderers is full of social commentary that digs into everything from global warming to racial tension,
Too many words I have to look up to understand, no thanks
 
Despite the recommendations... ppl.... old ppl just hanging around.
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Saw a grp of at least 7 roadies riding abreast of each other.
 
Honestly that like 70s age don’t give a F either! I overheard a convo the other in shoprite between two people within 3’ talk about should we still plan a celebrations for X. Yea I think so that would be nice.
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@clarkenstein fucking Hillsborough. This is NOT a vacation or free time.
 
I have my Mom in Florida on lockdown. She told me her friend Carol will not watch news or pay much attention to this. Volunteers at hospital , head of some groups. Just goes about her business . I told Mom to stay away from her and her friends. They still play canasta together. Crazy.
Don't be like Carol
 
Mitch said:
I have my Mom in Florida on lockdown. She told me her friend Carol will not watch news or pay much attention to this. Volunteers at hospital , head of some groups. Just goes about her business . I told Mom to stay away from her and her friends. They still play canasta together. Crazy.
Don't be like Carol
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My mom is being a Carol I called her and my sister last night so we could make arrangements. My mom is not happy when my sister offered a shoe box for her ashes
 
We got meat! Honestly, so far not meat shortages at the store when we been there early. Wife is starting to buy in the fear. Make it stop
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My bil was at wegmans this morning, in a line waiting to get in. To get orange juice. And he has Parkinson's. He's so screwed. So is Ocean county. He's not allowed in my house.
 
Mitch said:
I have my Mom in Florida on lockdown. She told me her friend Carol will not watch news or pay much attention to this. Volunteers at hospital , head of some groups. Just goes about her business . I told Mom to stay away from her and her friends. They still play canasta together. Crazy.
Don't be like Carol
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Yes, there’s always that ‘friend’...I spoke to my mom yesterday (she’s in Florence, Italy). She’s locked down in her house, when a friend shows up with another woman that demands to use my mom’s computer to check out pictures that have been sent to her phone. My mom is the kindest person you’ll ever know (even though she’s wrapped up a little rough) but in this case I am glad she put down her foot and said ‘no, my computer is the only way I communicate with my sons, I don’t know what you want to do with it and You won’t touch it’ than she send them away. Good for her, I’m just worried she didn’t do that from behind a closed door... people!
 
For some reason embedding I like you Mom from the Bouncing Souls just wouldn't be appropriate, but I like your Mom!

There needs to be a webX for seniors... maybe the google room thing?
 
My mom just called she had a house built last year and they just finished yesterday couldn't get all her paperwork filled out so she couldn't stay. This morning mandatory 21 day quarantine that she didn't prep for. Called me balling, I told her tough shit she's on another continent, and we tried to prepare her.
 
I owe people an apology, I was using the naming kungflu I didn't mean it in a derogatory or racist way but I now know that's exactly what it is regardless of my intensions. So to my fellow mtbnjers I apologise.
 
Big Dumb Animal said:
Swan song by Robert Mcammon. Nuclear war, dystopian future, all that good stuff. That book really made me think how people would act if something really serious came along. Then this virus hit and I didn't have to think about it anymore.
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If you want a book about how people really act when bad stuff happens read the book Tribes by Sebastian Hungar, you might be pleasantly surprised by how catastrophic events bring out the best in people/society. Despite media images and movies of riots and chaos, people come together, community is strengthened, a feeling of we’re all in this together creates a bond. This will unify a pretty polarized country.
 
1TrackMind said:
If you want a book about how people really act when bad stuff happens read the book Tribes by Sebastian Hungar, you might be pleasantly surprised by how catastrophic events bring out the best in people/society. Despite media images and movies of riots and chaos, people come together, community is strengthened, a feeling of we’re all in this together creates a bond. This will unify a pretty polarized country.
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I would be interested in reading that. An aspect I appreciated about Swan Song is there were a lot of different reactions: altruism, isolation, mob violence, despair, hope, recovery. I haven't read it in over 10 years so if you hate it, don't blame me.
 
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