Corona Thread |OT| Nu variant, who dis?

[EchoRin]

[Momo]

https://twitter.com/asymmetricinfo/status/1235560724304285696

this is so weirdly cold (reading the whole thread)

[Trent Dole]

There's at least three cases in my state, but they're all in the more eastern/Boston-ish area of the state, where I am not.

[EVOL]

Literally every neighborhood around me has at least one case now 

[BisMarckie]

IMPORTANT UPDATE: My mild cold is now gone. I survived  the corona virus boys.

[Kunai With Chain]

https://twitter.com/A6Asap/status/1235648554338791427

[Occam]

Another graduate from the Pence School of Disease Prevention.

[james]

Someone on the train has a dry cough and now my throat is tingly

[Lonewulfeus]

https://twitter.com/EdmondTran/status/1235814840498663427

Can confirm, I’m white and cook rice in the microwave

[Akala]

I thought most white people have moved over to instant pot. 

[kingv]

My daughter was coughing last night. At least she’ll live but I hope you enjoyed my posts.

[BisMarckie]

https://twitter.com/EdmondTran/status/1235814840498663427

Can confirm, I’m white and cook rice in the microwave

1 cup of rice 2 cups of water and a pinch of salt. It is not that hard

[Raist]

https://twitter.com/EdmondTran/status/1235814840498663427

Can confirm, I’m white and cook rice in the microwave

1 cup of rice 2 cups of water and a pinch of salt. It is not that hard

You think so? Friends from HK / Singapore lambasted me for not owning a rice cooker

I was like, yeah, I'm not spending a few hundred quids for cooking motherfucking rice, thanks

[james]

Microwave is all you need brehs.

Tea, rice, bacon, tortillas, it does it all

[Occam]

Someone on the train has a dry cough and now my throat is tingly

See, now that's a possible symptom.

[Occam]

https://twitter.com/EdmondTran/status/1235814840498663427

Can confirm, I’m white and cook rice in the microwave

1 cup of rice 2 cups of water and a pinch of salt. It is not that hard

You think so? Friends from HK / Singapore lambasted me for not owning a rice cooker

I was like, yeah, I'm not spending a few hundred quids for cooking motherfucking rice, thanks

Erm, that's not how much rice cookers cost. You can get a cheap one for 20-30 units of currency ($,€,£).

[Raist]

https://twitter.com/EdmondTran/status/1235814840498663427

Can confirm, I’m white and cook rice in the microwave

1 cup of rice 2 cups of water and a pinch of salt. It is not that hard

You think so? Friends from HK / Singapore lambasted me for not owning a rice cooker

I was like, yeah, I'm not spending a few hundred quids for cooking motherfucking rice, thanks

Erm, that's not how much rice cookers cost. You can get a cheap one for 20-30 units of currency.

Oh trust me, it's the kind of folks who think you absolutely need to spend that much to get the proper stuff, anything else is not much better than dumping it in a bowl of water and use a mircrowave oven.

Love them to bits, but

[Lonewulfeus]

Microwave is all you need brehs.

Tea, rice, bacon, tortillas, it does it all

I also warm tortillas up in the microwave

[nachobro]

pan? lol this dude

[ToxicAdam]

Life hack: shove the tortillas down your pants while you prepare the meat and veggies. You get a more consistent warmth throughout.

[james]

pan? lol this dude

Just rooting out the fake latinos

There are two, and only two ways to heat up tortillas

When you have time and are sober




Or microwave when you dont give a shit about life anymore but you want your bean tacos

[BisMarckie]

What if you have an induction cooktop?

[BisMarckie]

I heat up tortillas in the oven. How offensive is that?

[james]

What if you have an induction cooktop?

You kill yourself and respawn

Funny, I heat up roti that way because they inflate when you put them on direct flame but I don't do it with tortillas

My man, once get taste the char you never go back

 

[team filler]

[BisMarckie]

You kill yourself and respawn

I‘m not the one living in a house full of extremely flammable gas. Enjoy your propane deathtraps

[TVC15]

I’m a little stressed by this indefinite work from home thing. I’m not expecting any of you guys to have the magic bullet, but maybe one of you can give me a little advice or talk a little sense into me.

I’m not as productive when working from home. I know I’m not going to get as much done, and currently I have a lot to do. So whenever we do go back to work, I’m going to be mega-breakdown stressed. This is as close to a guarantee as you can get. Since this is indefinite (and at least for a full week), it could potentially get really bad. I’ve had some epic breakdowns in my life, sometimes including arrests, ambulances, lots of police cars, guns, drugs, you name it, so I’m nervous whenever I can literally see one of these situations.

Ugh, I don’t know. I guess there’s no question here or anything. Just seriously feeling a lot of anxiety about this.

[Himu]

https://twitter.com/EdmondTran/status/1235814840498663427

Can confirm, I’m white and cook rice in the microwave

I hope you die.

[TVC15]

Have you considered going to like a Starbucks or somewhere around people so you’d possibly be more inclined to work with more efficiently? I know this defeats the purpose of working from home and avoiding the fake plague, but it could help increase your productivity.

Alternatively, take a very embarrassing picture of yourself and share it with a friend. If you don’t meet a certain work milestone in a set time, this friend will send the embarrassing picture to your employer getting you into severe trouble at work and causing you issue. May be enough stress and fear to envelop the nervousness you’re currently experiencing so you can get back on track.

I’m trying to think of places to go now, but it’s a difficult exercise since all the decent places are going to be packed with everyone else in the same boat. I may just go to places I think would be undesirable since I’m not really concerned about the virus (yet at least). Like what would typically be the shittiest, filthiest, most crowded places, since those would be places people will avoid. Food courts? Transit stations? Hospitals? Malls? Airports?

I’m not kidding, this is the stuff in my head right now.

[Lonewulfeus]

https://twitter.com/EdmondTran/status/1235814840498663427

Can confirm, I’m white and cook rice in the microwave

I hope you die.

Some day, I will.

[TVC15]

You could always stay in a a really shitty motel and mentally train yourself to believe you’re on a work trip. Or have the motel manager trap you within the room until you hit your work goals.

I thought of this earlier, I might look into it. I’m glad somebody else thought it was at least semi-sane. I’m a little concerned about the price (I know nothing about prices really), but it’s a tricky value proposition to balance. I could do it for 2-3 days a week and see if I can fill in the gaps with somewhere that doesn’t cost money.

At least I have the weekend to come up with a strategy for this. I’m still in the initial ugh phase and want coffee but the coffee machine is at work.

I’m a little stressed by this indefinite work from home thing. I’m not expecting any of you guys to have the magic bullet, but maybe one of you can give me a little advice or talk a little sense into me.

I’m not as productive when working from home. I know I’m not going to get as much done, and currently I have a lot to do. So whenever we do go back to work, I’m going to be mega-breakdown stressed. This is as close to a guarantee as you can get. Since this is indefinite (and at least for a full week), it could potentially get really bad. I’ve had some epic breakdowns in my life, sometimes including arrests, ambulances, lots of police cars, guns, drugs, you name it, so I’m nervous whenever I can literally see one of these situations.

Ugh, I don’t know. I guess there’s no question here or anything. Just seriously feeling a lot of anxiety about this.

I have my own problems with WFH, and yes my ADHD is not as well controlled there. I find myself lost in distractions or doing something or forgetting what I was doing minutes ago, and i also develop a lot of anxiety about falling behind. i'm really concerned about this long stretch of remote because my productivity drop might force me to go back on meds. I have my strats, but they're all ADHD related, i dont know if they'll help but i'll just say them anyway


- Make a REAL fucking workstation. Seriously go full gamer. Comfy chair. All the telecom you need. All the screen you need. remove anything non-work related from there.
- Schedule when you can, what you can. Schedule out your work periods and break periods and what you're working on. A whiteboard really helps, a big fuckin' one with a couple colors
- Reach out to your coworkers and bosses/juniors once a day. This helps you stay connected to the workplace mentally. I need social interaction to stay engaged. My team and I do slack calls where we round up our issues and just bullshit a little about whatever.
- Drink water
- Employ distractions but keep them reasonable. It's impossible to have none so have the right ones.
- Aromatherapy. I have a diffuser with a few diff essential oils. I dont feel like this makes me more productive per se, but i find that it de-stresses me.
- Go outside during your lunch break and see the fucking sun.


In my last job i worked 100% remote for 7 months and I became really miserable because it dovetailed with some bad life stuff, so i have some experience, but I still think it sucks.

Thank you for the suggestions. I can try some of these out. Some of them sound like they may also be useful for after I move (I don’t really have room for a workstation right now ).

[team filler]

Have you considered going to like a Starbucks or somewhere around people so you’d possibly be more inclined to work with more efficiently? I know this defeats the purpose of working from home and avoiding the fake plague, but it could help increase your productivity.

Alternatively, take a very embarrassing picture of yourself and share it with a friend. If you don’t meet a certain work milestone in a set time, this friend will send the embarrassing picture to your employer getting you into severe trouble at work and causing you issue. May be enough stress and fear to envelop the nervousness you’re currently experiencing so you can get back on track.

I’m trying to think of places to go now, but it’s a difficult exercise since all the decent places are going to be packed with everyone else in the same boat. I may just go to places I think would be undesirable since I’m not really concerned about the virus (yet at least). Like what would typically be the shittiest, filthiest, most crowded places, since those would be places people will avoid. Food courts? Transit stations? Hospitals? Malls? Airports?

I’m not kidding, this is the stuff in my head right now.

public library bb 

[Himu]

I'm starting to have a cough and there's phlegm, brehs.

[Lonewulfeus]

Have you considered going to like a Starbucks or somewhere around people so you’d possibly be more inclined to work with more efficiently? I know this defeats the purpose of working from home and avoiding the fake plague, but it could help increase your productivity.

Alternatively, take a very embarrassing picture of yourself and share it with a friend. If you don’t meet a certain work milestone in a set time, this friend will send the embarrassing picture to your employer getting you into severe trouble at work and causing you issue. May be enough stress and fear to envelop the nervousness you’re currently experiencing so you can get back on track.

I’m trying to think of places to go now, but it’s a difficult exercise since all the decent places are going to be packed with everyone else in the same boat. I may just go to places I think would be undesirable since I’m not really concerned about the virus (yet at least). Like what would typically be the shittiest, filthiest, most crowded places, since those would be places people will avoid. Food courts? Transit stations? Hospitals? Malls? Airports?

I’m not kidding, this is the stuff in my head right now.

public library bb 

He said no distractions, too many sexy homeless people masturbating

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/CNBC/status/1235942080305917953

Larry says this whole thing is safe and relatively contained and we should not overreact.

[brawndolicious]

Honestly I feel being shirtless helps with WFH. Replicates the emotional nakedness.

I also got a $100 ikea sit-stand desk and it works well with my multimonitor setup. One big advantage is that you get a lot less of those random "can you help me with this?" requests that somehow always take 30 min to diagnose and a further 45 mins to fix/explain. Those always ruin my productivity streak but I guess if people don't see you then they forget you exist (or they just assume you'll try to dodge their emails).

[Raist]

Have you considered going to like a Starbucks or somewhere around people so you’d possibly be more inclined to work with more efficiently? I know this defeats the purpose of working from home and avoiding the fake plague, but it could help increase your productivity.

Alternatively, take a very embarrassing picture of yourself and share it with a friend. If you don’t meet a certain work milestone in a set time, this friend will send the embarrassing picture to your employer getting you into severe trouble at work and causing you issue. May be enough stress and fear to envelop the nervousness you’re currently experiencing so you can get back on track.

I’m trying to think of places to go now, but it’s a difficult exercise since all the decent places are going to be packed with everyone else in the same boat.

Huh... library?

[Akala]

I WFH a lot and find I am generally/overall more productive...in office there are obviously more social distractions, getting pulled into meetings/other problems, etc. I have a standing theory not more than four hours of real work get done on average per day in open-plan offices. This doesn't even factor in time wasted by commuting.

I think the main thing is settling into a routine and sticking with it. You really need to treat it like work, agree a dedicated workspace helps with this. Put yourself in a position to succeed by minimizing distractions. Set daily goals and stick to them.

Of course there are times when head's not in it or it's dead or something, but try to be 'on' way more than off.

It takes a lot of discipline though and a lot of people just aren't cut out for it. I can usually tell when certain people are working from home as their work/response times go to shit. If this virus actually opens the door to more people working from home, guarantee there will be more BS created to monitor people doing so. 

[Himu]

https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/coronavirus-2-cases-harris-county-houston-outbreak-15108596.php?fbclid=IwAR0fTDMJ3EfbMfz7jtuhMT9aLczCMsPNk6iX2N7muZDFWGohffzdrSDV5tg

brehs

[james]

Well my work has gone all out to fight Corona!

Hand washing posters in every elevator and literally 9 of them in the mens room!

[kingv]

Some hoe has been walking around my city with goddamn corona for 2 weeks and I just touched my damn face.

But target had toilet paper so things are looking up.

[Great Rumbler]

I thought most white people have moved over to instant pot. 

Just bought an Instant Pot the other day.

[TEEEPO]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/05/hong-kong-warns-residents-not-to-kiss-pets-after-dog-contracts-coronavirus

no one kiss rumbler, he is quarantined for being a dirty dog

[kingv]

Well my work has gone all out to fight Corona!

Hand washing posters in every elevator and literally 9 of them in the mens room!

I see you are staying safe like me.

Every time you have an urge to touch your face touch your butthole instead.

[james]

Cruise fares about to drop again

 

21 people test positive for coronavirus on California cruise ship, out of 46 tested so far

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1236029449042198528

Our prophet has spoken

[Great Rumbler]

The corona finally hit Oklahoma. 

[Rman]

The COVID19 stuff gives us a glimpse as Trump as a business leader.  He probably shot messengers all the time.

[Skullfuckers Anonymous]

https://mobile.twitter.com/TheRealOJ32/status/1235918997247442944

[bluemax]

The corona finally hit Oklahoma. 

Hit Nebraska as well.

One of the higher ups on my team told us to expect corporate to issue a WFH policy over the weekend/early next week. I have only been at this job 2 months so I haven't been set up for remote work, also my work requires hardware that I don't have at home so if they don't let me back into the office I don't really know what I'll do. Gonna be fun!

I suppose the upside is I'll save money on dog daycare.

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/ryangrim/status/1236065959644925953

[james]

https://twitter.com/ryangrim/status/1236065959644925953

BERNIE WINS MOTHERFUCKERS

AHAHAHAHAHAGA

[eleuin]

https://twitter.com/julialindau/status/1235714275752267776

[bork]

https://mobile.twitter.com/TheRealOJ32/status/1235918997247442944

[thisismyusername]

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/amandarykoff/status/1236147874812940288

[Bebpo]

Cruise fares about to drop again

 

21 people test positive for coronavirus on California cruise ship, out of 46 tested so far

So based on the past cruises, basically if one person has it on a cruise, the entire cruise ship will get it.

[TVC15]

Cruise fares about to drop again

 

21 people test positive for coronavirus on California cruise ship, out of 46 tested so far

So based on the past cruises, basically if one person has it on a cruise, the entire cruise ship will get it.

From that one really bad cruise ship summer like a decade back, we learned that coprophagia is basically included in those all you can eat buffets.

[james]

Went to a bar tonight and there was no soap in the restroom who do i call

[team filler]

https://twitter.com/ryangrim/status/1236065959644925953

inshallah!