Quarantine / Social Distancing Thread

I'm guessing most people here are in an area under quarantine. What are you guys doing to pass the time? Let's talk. I'm currently burning through my media backlog because I have nothing else to do. I watched the movie M (1931) not too long ago. It's a very atmospheric and dramatic movie that, to an extent, inspired cyberpunk decades later. It's definitely worth watching. What are you up to? Reading anything, watching anything, listening to anything? What's on your backlog? Are you doing anything else to pass the time like gardening, working out, etc.?

I'm going to start a page to overanalyze whatever I consume. Very worried about working out to be honest, no space to do that here comfortably beyond a couple of push ups.

I'm doing my routine randomly floating the web. I'd like to watch Witch Craft Works, maybe Natural Born Killers. M looks interesting, some excellent noir out there. I try to keep a journal and might go camping for a few days.

Playing LOTRO, listening to music and I made this Lainchan radio bump today and sampled the JJ stream

>>16490 Exercise Program Course work Sit on exercise bike and listen to podcasts Cook Garden >>16496 Very cool anon, gj.

fuarrrk the quarantine, im building stuff in the woods, collecting herbs and doing guerrilla gardening. No matter how this turns out im going to live the outdoor adventure this year.

I've been studying Middle Eastern medieval and early-modern history, folklore, and culture, as I want to design a pen-and-paper RPG set in fantasy Middle East (Persia, Mesopotamia, and Arabian Peninsula). Also been thinking about picking up Japanese. Other than that, the usual procrastination. Not much has changed in my life, in comparison to most people. >>16496 This is super cool.

>>16490 Feeling bored , but at least I have time to study for my exams. Planning to read something , and rewatch Daria. Also I want to work out for all the quarantine time , so I can reap the fruits in the form of good body shape.

fuarrrk! Near were i live they began patrolling with drones to enforce quarantine. Our worse cyberpuk nightmares are real, and they suck ass

outside of working from home, I've been doing htb

Are they actually telling you guys you can't come out of the house? They haven't done anything in my area, everything continues on as usual. Some restaurants have voluntarily stop dining indoors, but you can still get take-out.

>I'm guessing most people here are in an area under quarantine. No but may I as well be as there's nothing open. I can walk around outside for a while but it's cold here so that limits outdoor recreation. I don't have internet at home and even the libraries are closed but not the student centre apparently so here I am (I'm not a student). Oh well. I remember there were these things called "books" once. I found some in my apartment. They must have been mine once. Perhaps I will go home try reading one.

>>16498 >guerrilla gardening Neat, do you have any reading material to share? I fear it's going to become more and more relevant as the climate starts collapsing.

>>16490 >>16499 neet, I was just reading about the islamic golden age, and the maths behind finding helocentric orbit and stuff. >>16502 so it begins... although where I live it looks more like 28 days later... only a fraction of the homeless and druggies wandering the streets and no incoming boats or planes. We get daily "alerts" warning people to stay inside or the govt will get you, and they are fining people thousands for breaking curfew. On the other hand, wearing respirators/masks and tracksuits is fashionable here, so there's that >>16504 A lot of that depends on where you live, I heard the government was trying to cover up viral cases as a public relation stunt to try to reassure everyone that everything is fine. They put in place a pretty strict curfew at night (not allowed out of the house), and the only people who are exempt are people going to or from critical jobs (food/medical/government). All fast food restaurants that are still serving are drive through only, and I saw perhaps 5 cars all day (this is in a big city too). There is rumor that nobody except critical workers are allowed to be outside at all, but I have not heard much news about that (also a few people walking dogs have not seemed to be hassled) I never really go out to socialize, and I used to be a Hikki for 3 years before moving, so being this alone does not bother me. I started to learn Chinese again, and have just been reading research papers on corona-chan along with keeping an eye on my local situation in between binge watching all the anime I was planning on watching before I got too busy at work.

>>16506 No just creativity and experience. I did collecting and gardening wild plants for a long time, i know lots of local edible plants most dont even know about but are abundant. I think as long as martial law ins not declared i dont think anyone will find me. Its not hard to do, but if you take the time to experiment and study. You dont even need lots of tools and it sure pays off. Theres not real trick to it, plant, water, compost, make sure they have light and all that. Find a remote place, try to get a feel for what grows where, light conditions, moisture, soil etc. You can also try to many of the herbs that just grow wild, most people dont realize there are good food when used properly.

I was already a shut-in who left the house about once a week or not at all and I don't miss the restaraunts since I stopped going to them before all of this, so my behavior hasn't changed much at all, except it's more tolerated by others. I already try to read, create, and better myself everyday, so that's what I'm continuing with. Right now I'm trying to fix my sleep schedule a little so I can more easily do this.

>>16510 I expected to see more such answers on a chan board to be honest. Not much about my routine has changed either except for the fact that I no longer need to go to university. This means that I have more time to toy around with my hobbies, which are mostly things that can be done from home anyways.

>>16511 I'm another NEET Lain and it's surprising how much this is affecting me. I live alone, don't own a car, and there is really no one nearby I can pool resources with. Almost nothing in walking distance is open now and in a few days, that might get worse. I have food for several weeks but not enough quality food for more than one. The cat will need a refill by then too. And my fuk'n shower broke. No hot water in it and I can't get it fixed. I tried filling up the bath with hot water from elsewhere and to make a stupid story short, it blows. I thought this economic slowdown would be easy for me but life finds a way to get worse every single day somehow.

Funnily enough I'm working now more than ever given that I work in the food supply industry. This week has been hectic, I haven't gotten a single day off. The next week might be a bit better but I'll still most likely work like crazy during workdays. One of the things that keeps me going is the paycheck that I'll be receiving and also my country just passed a new law where the state will pay everyone who worked during the state of emergency period. Besides that I'm just playing around with some programming languages, exercising and restocking.

Being stuck at home is really taking a drain on mind. I get so bored sometimes that I feel sick. Currently learning some programming stuff

Getting tired of it already. I'm stuck with my family which means I can't just take drugs to pass the time and I have to deal with their bullshit. I'm still decompressing from a stressful finals season. I will start studying again soon and maybe start an exercise routine. I will not respect quarantine restrictions in a month or two. By that time I do not believe it will be effective at all, and it is not worth the psychological stress.

>>16517 This virus will change how people go out as it is, it's so serious, no generation alive today has experienced self quarantining.

>>16517 >>16518 Just remember, all this is to protect the elderly and the chronically infirm. We're definitely doing the right thing by shutting everyone's lives down so they can live just a little bit longer.

>>16490 >M, to an extent, inspired cyberpunk decades later. No ? How do you see this at all ? Explain please. As for the quarantine I couldn't enjoy it more. I feel like I'm in my natural habitat for once and the rest of the world shares my experience, feels good. Been spending my days doing whatever I wanted and whenever I wanted. Hope this situation lasts for a while but WITHOUT taking any more victims. Big love lainons. <3

>>16535 M was a big inspiration towards noir cinema. Noir was a big inspiration for cyberpunk.

>>16517 Far out man, maybe this is a good opportunity to get off the drugs and connect with your loved ones if you're willing to risk the lives of those around you to get high.

>>16539 Yeah, man. Some of us also like to go out to restaurants to eat once in a while, even knowing car crashes are a leading cause of death. Rebel life, man.

>>16539 yeah, it's sure not that I'd prefer to get high to get through the boredom of being inside because I'd rather not risk the lives of people around me.

i've been gradually buying parts for a home server and finally had the chance to put it together this past week. very happy with how things are shaping up. just spent the day writing scripts to automate various audio-related things and learned how alsa works a bit better. also been getting back into programming for fun rather than just because i need something programmed. it's been really nice honestly. in truth my lifestyle isn't so different than it usually is. i just have more free time because i don't have to go in to work.

in case you're still there OP, I'm a humble movie buff and if you like films with a noir feel I highly recommend the works of a writer/director Paul Schrader. everybody know s Taxi Driver but a lot of his other movies like Light Sleeper, Raging Bull, First Reformed, and Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (my personal favorite of the bunch, possibly my fav movie ever) are post-noir and post-cyberpunk, but definitely share elements like social alienation, stories that trawl the night, a profoundly lonely main character, stuff like that

I think cabin fever will be a greater danger than coronavirus in a month or so.

I hope it works because I'm tired of pretending I'm very interested in complete my backlog of things to consume. It's not that I go out a lot or anything, but being unable to separate work from leisure and having all the family here (they can't work from home) is a pretty soykafty situation High chance of quarantine getting extended as long as the number of cases keeps growing worldwide to be honest

>>16490 well, my life hasnt changed that much since the quarantine to be honest, im doing what ive always done. listen to music, watch anime, read manga, compose. pretty much the same as always, im concerned that at some point i get tired.

If I didn't have internet I wouldn't even know anything was different as long as nobody told me. I haven't been out of the house since Christmas. I'm pretty much a hikki/NEET. I literally only leave the house a few times a year to visit my grandma who literally just lives on the other side of my town. But usually she stops by here once and a while. However, she's actually taking this serious and staying home.

>>16658 How do you make a living? Do you work from home?

>>16632 I think economic collapse will be. It's like the privileged, sheltered, hyper-online dumb-dumbs who sanctimoniously advocate endless quarantine and shame people for having to live their lives don't understand that economies kill people too. They kill tens of millions of people. But they act like sacrificing a chunk of the populace to save the economy is some barbarically selfish act. It fuсking isn't--at some point, this depression is going to kill more than covid ever could. But the people in charge don't get that because they only think of the economy as some abstract thing about stock markets, not a life-or-death struggle for billions of people worldwide. They never had to face deadly consequences originating from economics. Sometimes you can't save everyone. Sometimes you can only mitigate some deaths. Right now we're trading the lives of the poor and young with no savings or assets for the lives of the very old, most of whom only had five or less years left anyway. I know there are anecdotal exceptions of young people dying, but that's the statistical truth. Is it horrible to let them die? Yes. I don't want to advocate senicide. But any sane society would value the lives of people with their whole lives ahead of them more than people who already have lived long, full lives and have one foot in the fuсking grave. Sometimes we need to have a god-damn spine and face harsh realities. Should we have an economy that could survive being shut down during a disaster without tanking and imploding, thus throwing millions of precarious people in the meat grinder? Of course we should. Maybe we should work on that now that the crisis is illustrating how essential it is. But for now, we don't. And we have to play the cards we have right fuсking now. There was a finance minister in Germany that just jumped in front of a train because he had realized that following the medical advice of the doctors and shutting down the whole nation had ignored important non-medical factors, and he saw just how many people were going to be harmed or killed by the coming collapse. We're talking 35%+ unemployment rates worldwide. Everyone is just acting like these effects are vague future possibilities, but outrageous economic doom is now certain. Would an unmitigated pandemic killing millions also hurt the economy? Yes. But not nearly as much as shutting it down for months, up to a year and a half in many recommendations. AND MILLIONS WILL STILL DIE FROM THE VIRUS because there's just no way we can see this quarantine through to the end. It will fall apart long before it is effective. There's no resources to make it sustainable. Those recommendations are insane. Doctors just don't have the field of expertise necessary to see how many people that would kill through non-disease vectors. They know medicine, but this is not a purely medical issue anymore. All anyone talks about is the virus, like we have blinders on or something. Pretty soon we're going to see a far larger threat looming, and most people will feel like they never even saw the bear coming for them. Rich media assholes on twitter are acting like the worst consequences of losing your livelihood are having too much time at home, having to figure out anxiety and self-care or some bourgeois bullshit like that. Having to find hobbies. Boo-hoo. They are so out of touch that they have no idea that when most people lose their livelihoods and can't get another one very quickly--like what's happening now--they just end up on the street and die. God damn it's so frustrating. I feel like I'm going crazy seeing how few people think about this, how they seem to believe everyone has just as pampered an existence as they do and people not wanting to continue the quarantine are just stupid or evil or in denial. No, you dumb bastards, they just don't want to watch their families starve. They are in denial that there are other threats besides covid. And the real crying shame is that flattening the curve enough is literally impossible in the US. Hospitals already are over capacity by design, even without any pandemic whatsoever. We'd have to somehow invert the curve to make use of such advice that comes from countries with functioning healthcare systems that aren't skeletonized, cynical profit machines. Slowing the transmission just means the hospitals will be inundated far longer than what happened in Italy. We're just increasing the amount of time this thing is going to be hammering our asses. We should be doing wartime or perhaps New Deal-style work programs, shifting all production towards medical infrastructure and equipment needed to meet the worst-case demand. Not fuсking pretending we can manage this by halting the universe for a year and a half. That just won't work. It's a non-starter. Just because an epidemiologist model shows that the world standing still will slow the disease does not magically make everybody able to execute that action for the necessary amount of time. Everybody is living paycheck to paycheck. They haven't the ability to shelter at home because that home will instantly be pulled out from under them. Rich doctors and politicians don't fuсking understand that because they have savings accounts and own their homes.

>>16765 Today I got bothered by a local government plague squad on my way to work, they tried to act tough and tell me citizens were not allowed outside until they found out I was a fed. Being in a essential position is soykaf. I wish I could just stay at home and watch CGDCT anime all day like everyone else. Why did I think emergency management was a good idea?

>>16767 >Would an unmitigated pandemic killing millions also hurt the economy? Yes. But not nearly as much as shutting it down for months, up to a year and a half in many recommendations. I don't think this is true. Financial capitalism is naturally unstable, and the hit of a serious pandemic would probably cause more or less the same damage, long-term. This crash was always coming, we've been warned about it since 2008. >AND MILLIONS WILL STILL DIE FROM THE VIRUS because there's just no way we can see this quarantine through to the end. I'm pretty sure most people think of this quarantine as a temporary measure to buy time for producing more medical equipment, hospital capacity, etc. And they are right, it needs to be temporary, and hospital capacity needs to be vastly increased, as fast as possible. It's the only sensible response plan. I think most people know that deep in their guts, unless they're delusional. The fact that this doesn't seem to be happening in most places just breeds well-earned distrust of the government. 2020 could indeed be a year of revolutions, especially in poorer countries. In the meantime, people are cautious. People want to wait and see what happens and what can be done before they go out and live their lives again. Here the government mobilized emergency safety nets, so this is possible. >All anyone talks about is the virus, like we have blinders on or something. Pretty soon we're going to see a far larger threat looming, and most people will feel like they never even saw the bear coming for them. Pretty much everyone I know is very convinced that the coming depression will be worse than the virus. Most people seem to think of it as a consequence of not responding fast enough, which is absolutely true. >Everybody is living paycheck to paycheck. They haven't the ability to shelter at home because that home will instantly be pulled out from under them. rent strikes are popular right now. A group recently formed in my town which is organizing one. I think we will see a lot of people put their foot down and say, no, you don't get to fuarrrk us this much. People are aware of their situation now more than ever.

>>16769 I mostly agree on all points. I think capitalism is absolutely naturally unstable; the booms and busts are a feature, not a bug. It functions as a pump: a one-way check valve that forces capital upwards in giant cataclysms, impoverishing billions and slowly culling down the ruling class to a few hundred ludicrously wealthy and powerful individuals. But I don't think the damage will be more or less the same long-term. We're going to see a horrible crash caused by a pandemic killing millions versus a crash caused by months or a year of complete freeze followed by the same pandemic spread once the quarantine is no longer viable and must be lifted under threat of total destruction. One is obviously worse, because it includes the other plus even more catastrophic factors. The big bust was always coming, but it can be lesser or greater depending on circumstances. Our actions aren't totally without consequence. I definitely believe this is revolution fuel, towards your second point. Most people think this is a way to bide time for the response, but as you said there doesn't seem any real attempt to build that response. So really it's just waiting for the inevitable as things get even worse. We know from history that revolutions happen once around 30% of the populace experiences food insecurity. I think that's basically inevitable now. The ruling classes have been foolish. They didn't buy guillotine insurance, which would have been fairly cheap for them. But they've gotten so ideologically rigid that they can't even bring themselves to spend that pittance even in a global emergency. It will eventually be their downfall, as it has been many times throughout history. Our government in the US will mobilize the illusion of safety nets; a few symbolic gestures, but they will not convince anybody when they are losing their homes and livelihoods. I know that pretty much every actual citizen is talking about the economy, not the virus; I was more talking about media, influencers (who are wealthy and out of touch with economic realities) and the state itself. They are mostly (with some exceptions) still talking about purely medical matters. That is starting to shift towards economic and social matters, but just like the initial response it's happening too little, too late. And most of us in isolation interpret the media narrative as public opinion since they have a near-vacuum of actual social engagement that isn't happening on poisoned online hypercommunities. I do harbor hope against hope that the rent strikes will be effective, but realistically I don't think it'll work in a way that's significant enough to save more than a small minority of people who live in large apartment blocks managed by monolithic corporate entities in coastal states. Most of the world not only has no solidarity necessary for such an unprecedented general strike, but the unlikelihood is even further magnified by the fact that the enemy is diffuse; it's countless private landlords across the world. Not a single executive board. There's really no model or example of this kind of strike in history as far as I know. Not nearly at this scale. I hope people put their foot down and form solidarity purely based on desperate common need, I really do--but I don't think people should hold their breath for this to be a viable solution. Because we will suffocate while waiting for this to succeed. The blackpilled part of me thinks people should start rioting and intentionally spreading the virus until the states are forced to provide for them to get them to go back into quarantine. We have to put their skin in the game. There needs to be a real and credible threat or else they'll just let us all die en masse. They really don't give a ѕһіt until a gun is to their head.

>>16768 Damn. Yeah, the martial state and military police are slowly being snuck in and normalized in this way, and I think that anyone who doesn't think this will stick around is delusional. Of course these institutions will stay forever, just like the NSA and Homeland Security and TSA. If police can start asking people where they are going and scrutinizing everybody's movement with tracking technology (ostensibly meant to monitor "contagious contacts") then they absolutely will continue to do so after the pandemic passes--if it ever does. This might become a seasonal thing like the regular flu. If it happens, it's not ever going away. You can take that straight to the ѕһіt-bank. Out of curiosity, could you say what region of the world you work in?

>I'm guessing most people here are in an area under quarantine. What are you guys doing to pass the time? Let's talk. I'm doing indoor gardening - I took seeds from little tomatoes and put them in pots, now they're big and I can't wait for the first flowers.

Working at night as a security agent is very nice to break quarantine. The day I sleep, lurk on the Internets, listen music, watch movies, clean my apartment... As the spring is coming I crave for walks in the nature and swimming in rivers.

Remember that the Spanish Flu came in three waves. This is just the first wave of this virus. The only things that will change the situation are widespread antibody testing to see who can safely go out, and the development of a vaccine. Covid-19 might return every year. Taking a longer view, this could be only the first of a series of pandemics that will continue until the population is sparse enough to stop them.

>>16490 Reading (digital) manga, browsing the internet, posting on chans, and playing vidya.

>>16770 >a pandemic killing millions!!!!!!! how can you predict that ? ,the model that the social distancing/lock down was based on "Imperial College Covid-19 Model" 2.2 million has been changed to 20 thousand. What is that assumption based on?? did they have some incentive to hype up this pandemic scare ? Did they receive millions of $$$ from bill and melinda gates foundation? is the Gates foundaton manufacturing vaccines ? are they implementing some kind of digital ID for surveillance & monitoring? did they simulate this pandemic Crisis last year called event 201 a month before the first case of beervirus got reported in china ? What was Professor George F. Gao the Director-General, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention doing in that event ??????? epidemics FLATTEN AND DECLINE ON THEIR OWN Farr’s Law dictates that all epidemics tend to rise and fall in a roughly symmetrical pattern or bell-shaped curve. AIDS, SARS, Ebola, Zika – all followed that pattern. So does seasonal flu each year.Farr’s Law has nothing to do with human interventions such as “social distancing” to “flatten the curve,” >but the death rates you may ask ???? are people dying of cov or with cov ?are the ways in which we code deaths in our hospitals have been changed ?are all the people who die in hospitals with the coronavirus are deemed to be dying of the coronavirus? deaths reported for all decedents where the disease caused or is presumed to have caused or contributed to death? Are careful records being kept to separate “Covid-19” from “presumed Covid-19”?Are the media making sure they respect the distinction in their reporting? https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/how-to-understand-and-report-figures-for-covid-19-deaths- and do hospitals have any monetary incentives in reporing covid postive deaths and cases ????? When the coronavirus epidemic ends public health zealots inevitably slap themselves on the back for having prevented their own ridiculous scenarios

I do have zero social contacts anyway so I don't give a soykaf.

>>16914 If a person dies from heart attack because they had a weak heart and caught coronavirus - they still die of coronavirus. Because if there was no such virus, they could have lived for 40 more years with their weak heart, going to work and paying taxes or for 10 years more, bringing joy to their grandchildren or something. It spreads fast, if unchecked it overloads healthcare system and people start dying from things they could have survived if they were given proper care. It happened in Italy and other countries don't want to end up in the same situation. Countries want to keep hospitals at a constant high load, processing as much cases they can, relaxing quarantine where hospitals keep up and making it stricter in areas where there won't be enough beds to help everyone.

Further thread derailment will result in your post being deleted. This isn't a proper thread for discussing what ifs and whatnot, it's about what are lainons doing to pass the time while under lockdown . Either use >>16826 or create a new Wuhan flu thread.

Re-arranged everything in my room so it reminds me of "home" less and I can work more productively. Work is pretty much the same, more meetings now though, and I try to wear something strange on my head for each meeting to make it all more lively and to keep my quarantine haircut from getting into my eyes. I've been walking to/from work sometimes, which helped with postponing my death due to sedimentary lifestyle. Now to compensate I run in 8-figures over the biggest room my apartment for at least 15 minutes a day, apart from the usual minor exercise of push-ups and pull-ups. I usually feel alienated towards humanity, but recently I've started feeling being more connected to everyone, as we're all now in the same situation. I hope to preserve this feeling and improve myself through it. Never was interested in outdoor activities besides just walking, so overall not much changed, entertaining myself in the same way, channing on chans in the same way, listening to the same music.

>>16499 Very cool. I speak and write Arabic so if you have any questions I would be more than happy to help.

>>16518 Yes, because hikikomori and or neets don't exist. The millennials are prone to such things, very often. A few years ago something like 1/5 of them in the USA had no jobs. It's amazing that if you go all the way to lainchan normal people are so present that they think no generation self quarantines. Not the golden years elderly for no other reason than being too old to go out, not the young meek nerd types, not the druggies, etc. Amazingly awful. >>16528 It's not to save the 1/6 of them that'd possibly die without a hospital, it's just 9-11 tier, from the actual old people that did THAT, 9-11 tier rule making to take away rights. 2k happens, they use it. 2020 happens, they use it. >>17226 Lad wew.

>>16939 It's premise is bad.

gyms closed. i've been wacking off all the time

>>16506 you know, throughout all of history, warming periods have always been characterized as times of plentiful crop and prosperity. the ice age always fuarrrks it over. ancient Mesopotamians only arose because the ice age ended. i don't like it, but warming climate will always be a haven for life. Regardless of what idiots do to try and cool the planet down, there will be another ice age

>>16938 >It happened in Italy Almost exclusively sick elderly people died of coronavirus in Italy, and their healthcare system is overloaded at rest. Of course people died, but it wasn't of coronavirus, it was because of soykafty healthcare.

I've been coding, learning new stuff and watching anime. Also catching up on games I've had lying around but never had time to play. I've always only barely been not a NEET by the technicality of being employed.

This virus soykaf has been going on for so long now it feels weird to even see how we first responded to the quarantine stuff. As for what ive been doing, mainly caught up on some anime, read a bunch and continued coding/doing coursework for online classes.

I'm in the gave up on life, won't get up from bed stage my life went to complete soykaf this year