Social get together

the real reason Finland isn't in the frame is because he's maintaining his usual 1km distance

@Tsuhna LOOOL that one was good

@ragnhiild So now the Scandinavians have stolen the joke about >2m from Finland. Not fair, but agree with Tsuhna. AND the Fi politicians have actually discussed a curfew as part of the "last sprint". Sigh...

I just wish people would stay off my ass. Even with signs and rules, people still get right up on you. And then most of them will try and TALK TO ME. I don't want to speak to you, Maskless Karen. Please go away.

I for one can't wait to returning to a time when...

We could greet each other with coughing in each other's faces
We were allowed to lick all the cans at the grocery store
We could hold competitions to see who could fit the most live bats in their mouth
We would drink from the other person's glass first to show we didn't poison the drinks

I may or may not be misremembering things from the before time.

@CorruptUser Oh, yeah, I really miss that thing with the bats.

@CorruptUser I will admit this whole pandemic thing has put a dent in my hobby of licking doorknobs.

I've lately been watching some episodes of the Sixties TV series The Green Hornet, the one that introduced Bruce Lee and kung-fu to America. On reading some background material, I discovered that the title character as portrayed in the advertising for the original radio program was portrayed, not as wearing a mask over his eyes like the TV character, or a full facemask like in the movie serials, but one that just covers the lower part of his face.



I really want to get one like it - they're easily available online for about US$15 - and wear it around town, just to see how many people get the joke.

@uktana I love this idea! I can't find that style of Green Hornet mask online though, some redbubble ones but not the style in the ad. Did you actually find the style from the ad somewhere?

@nisser Somehow I'm getting different results than I did when I googled this one the first time. Most of what I'm finding now are the Sixties Green Hornet style eye-mask. The only lower-face mask I can find now is the one from Redbubble, which isn't the same shape, and the hornet design is too big. Still, it seems like it would be easy enough to make one that looks right. After all, I'm sure Britt Reed didn't order his mask online, either.

On the one hand ending this means the masks come off so that's good.

On the other, that means I no longer have a valid reason to wear my gasmask in public and "Pretending this is Fallout" just gets me odd looks.

Yeah I have asthma and I have personally been social distancing every flu season for years because I have also had bacterial pneumonia at least 9 times and I am not looking to hit double digits. I will happily say to a perfect stranger" please get the hell away from me if you are sick you walking petri dish." I had some guy almost climbing into my back pack the other day so I turned around and glared. Apparently my resting bitch face still works through the mask because he backed up. Sorry but I am not a fan of people being close to me in non pandemic times...but my lungs are crap so if I get it I will most likely end up in the hospital. No thank you.

Cool. Then stay home.

@Joggar In moments such as these I will make a conscious effort to remain calm. I will remember the person I am speaking with likely has little-few physical or mental health issues. You are also possibly a child or a teenager and therefore inexperienced. There are many people throughout the world and currently in your life though you will not be aware of it, who have received the same response you just gave @Thesunmaid. Do you have a Brazilian cousin with a collapsed lung who’s been constantly staying inside for the past solid year? Well, that’s them. That’s their life, that’s their decision. You don’t know @Thesunmaid, you’ve never met @Thesunmaid, you don’t know their life. Yes, there is a balance that should be made – if someone keeps a stash of oxygen tanks with them in the hall closet and going outside for 2 minutes causes them to bring a tank with them, then yes, they should be taking extra precautions such as not going outside for unnecessary things. They have to make sacrifices you likely don’t even ever have to think about. But again, you don’t know their life. Every situation is different, it’s just about trying to mitigate the assholes who insist they should be allowed to go outside because they’re supposedly healthy, and the assholes who use their illness as an excuse to go out out once in a while. I am not accusing @Thesunmaid of doing that, I just know those people exist. “So then stay home” is akin to telling a deaf person “You shouldn’t be outside at night” - what are they supposed to do, lock themselves away? I have severe OCD (OCD is neurological, no it is not a cleaning obsession), so does that mean I should avoid situations with a lot of stress or anxiety? Should I just be coddled? Is my father who has had pneumonia 4 times in the past 3 years supposed to not go out during the pandemic? He’s supposed to stay inside while anybody else can go out to the park and shopping for jewellery? How about the fact he has to work, he has no choice? Are you getting it now? So the next time you see or hear something you think you should jump on and you’re going to get applause/likes/thumbs ups for it, I am asking you as politely as possible to think first.

'@Jake2888' Yes yes remain calm and post a literal wall of text. Try again with paragraphs, pretty sure there is nothing worth my time there.

@Jake2888 I have a good friend that got covid and has been on a ventilator 3 times has almost died twice and has damage to her heart and scarring on her lungs and throat because of the breathing tube. Oh and she is currently in the hospital as we speak because of complications with her heart and lungs due to covid damage. She is from the UK though so no not Brazilian. My exes mom who I was very close to despite myself and her son breaking up also died at the end of last year because of covid because of her cancer treatments made her immune system shit. Also I am not the one who said everyone should stay home (that was a guy named jogger which I am sure you will blast with your little attitude.)although I am staying the fuck home because I also have bad lungs and I have seen the fucking suffering it can cause. I also live in a place that a bunch of dumb shits decided to have a large protest against the mask laws all of them not wearing masks and then we went into lock down 2 weeks later and there was a surge of cases...guess where alot of them got infected? Yes the fucking pandemic sucks and people have the choice to stay away from each other. I am also really sick of people saying"I don't want to get the vaccine because they will (insert dumbass shit that they read on face book) My city is crawling with them. I have been working from home for the past year and I got vaccinated because despite having the luxury of being able to work from home I have a step son who does not have full use of his lungs because he was born premature. He has 40% capacity in the left and 70% capacity in the other. Covid would kill him....my husband has a bad heart...covid could very easily kill him as well. I also have elderly parents both of which are in thier 70's. I am doing what I can not to take it back to my mother who is thankfully in remission from fucking breast cancer so yes! i will tell some ignorant dipshit to get away from me and wear thier fucking masks properly. The guy who was standing behind me was not working. I knew who he was...he was a tweaker drug addict who has been to jail at least 3 times that I know of and has most likely ended back there since this. So..i will ask you to politely save the attitude for someone who deserves it.

As much as the global pandemic sucks, I do enjoy having an excuse to avoid people.

@MooseFace It's hardly a new comment, but as an introvert I've been practicing for this all my life. :-)

Aaawe, i love the masks ^^

@Koskot_Owl

Masks can be pretty awful when you have to wear glasses with them.

@Eliseus fair enough

What I'm really looking for is to be able to visit my friends and family abroad without going in a 2 week quarantine both ways. Losing a month of your life to quarantine, getting a huge quarantine hotel bill and missing all vacation days for a whole year, just to stay with them for a few days is quite unaffordable!

@ImportViking If you live in Antarctica, you live in practical quarantine anyway, every day.

@Louhikaarme Those penguins are fierce and strict when it comes to mandatory quarantine on arrival though!

This pandemic would be contained and we'd be largely opened back up if the idiots would've just worn masks and not bitched about "muh freedumz" for the last year.

'@Sorflakne' Nope. It spreads five times as fast as the normal flu, there is no possibility of stopping it or ever getting rid of it.

By the way, the normal flu is also a corona virus.

@Sorflakne It didn't help any that the administration had completely dismantled the Pandemic warning systems setup after SARS