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What are your biggest memories from the quarantine days? (1 Viewer)
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Bromigo
i hope you went and watched the submarine races afterwards take that to the bank bromigo
Zow
Footballguy
Yeah, as one of those, the pandemic was really not all that fun.
Honestly, if I were able and no kids, I'd have had no problem at all like you did because golf could still be played, I could work more from home, we wouldn't need to travel so much, etc.
NutterButter
Footballguy
Having my oldest stay with me for the year b/c her bff lived next door and they could hang out after virtual school. Between wfh and that, it was a really good year.
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jamny
Footballguy
We bought a condo in Boise in December of 2019, planning on visiting once a month from NYC. We made it there in January and February 2020 and managed to get everything set up, TV's hung, washer/dryer, furniture, internet, etc. We cancelled our planned trip in March and did the same in April at the last minute. We wound up finally going back in May. NY was so locked down and isolating, taking the uber to the airport was weird. The airport itself was really bizarre, with the few people flying keeping their distance and the entire flight was practically silent. We got to the Dallas airport and barely anyone was wearing a mask. We had some BBQ there like normal times for the first time. There was even less concern in Boise. It was as if there was no virus. They even still had those stupid pedal car bars running, although they did stop them briefly after. For the rest of 2020, we went back and for a month at a time to NY and Boise and it was enough to convince us to get out of NY permanently. The different attitudes between the two was shocking. Overall, covid worked out for us because my wife would never have been able to WFH full time without it.
Kanil
Footballguy
My son doing school from home for a year within arms reach of me was both the best and worst thing. Trying to keep a 4th grader focused on what is essentially a 6 hour presentation was tough and super frustrating for both of us, but I know I'll look back on that year as one of the best years when it's all said and done.
odin33
Footballguy
Deemed an essential worker, working at a stair tread manufacturer. Apparently since we supplied Home Depot we were essential. Having 75% of our staff furloughed that first week, I was one of the lucky ones kept on. Absorbing warehouse manager, order picker, box maker, finishing line worker to my supply chain manager (desk job) title for $0 increase, and feeling lucky. Monday morning we typically had 100 orders that had come in through the weekend. We had 355 orders that first week to produce on 25% of the staff. Worked my A** off. Thankfully due everyone spending money fixing up their house we were fully staffed shortly thereafter.
ZERO traffic
Finding a case of those brown hand drying paper towels at a restaurant depot store and telling my kids we may need to use this as toilet paper if it gets real bad.
Wine with DeWine
Having a drive through Christmas where they set my wife's aging grandmother up at the front window so she could see everyone.
Virtual Easter with those stupid face changing things
ZERO traffic
Finding a case of those brown hand drying paper towels at a restaurant depot store and telling my kids we may need to use this as toilet paper if it gets real bad.
Wine with DeWine
Having a drive through Christmas where they set my wife's aging grandmother up at the front window so she could see everyone.
Virtual Easter with those stupid face changing things
FreeBaGeL
Footballguy
I think it was day zero for me. I used to play pick up basketball at the gym 3 times a week. Mostly the same group of 15-20 guys. I remember walking out of the gym as Rudy Gobert spit on the microphone.
After being closed for so long those pick-up games never really came back. We all played hoops together all the time but it wasn't like we exchanged phone numbers, there was just a thrice a week time set where we generally played. After covid most people didn't come back to the gym and there was never enough to play a game again, it just kind of faded away. I still remember walking out of the gym that day as Gobert spit on the mic, not knowing that was basically the last time I was ever going to see those guys and really, probably the last time I was ever going to play full court basketball.
After being closed for so long those pick-up games never really came back. We all played hoops together all the time but it wasn't like we exchanged phone numbers, there was just a thrice a week time set where we generally played. After covid most people didn't come back to the gym and there was never enough to play a game again, it just kind of faded away. I still remember walking out of the gym that day as Gobert spit on the mic, not knowing that was basically the last time I was ever going to see those guys and really, probably the last time I was ever going to play full court basketball.
Grahamburn
Footballguy
Golf courses and parks being closed was crazy to me. I was actually looking forward to the break. I knew I could play as much golf as I wanted because it was outside. Then, they closed the courses! Huh?! Ok, great. Free golf! I thought with the courses being closed I'd be able to just show up and walk the thing. Play as much golf as I wanted during the closures. But, nooooooooo. They had golf course staff there making sure nobody actually went out on the course! I'm outside and not around anyone?! So stupid.
John Maddens Lunchbox
Socialism for Dummies
Having people finally understand how germs are transmitted
How coughing, sneezing etc into your arm or into a mask massively reduced the transmission of certain airborne viruses
As someone who seemed to be in the 1% who understood this, it was great that people would understand and change their havits forever.
Or not, some arsewipe coughed directly into my face in a crowded market a month ago. Finally feeling better now.
How coughing, sneezing etc into your arm or into a mask massively reduced the transmission of certain airborne viruses
As someone who seemed to be in the 1% who understood this, it was great that people would understand and change their havits forever.
Or not, some arsewipe coughed directly into my face in a crowded market a month ago. Finally feeling better now.
DA RAIDERS
Footballguy
Covid was a trip for me. My entire industry was shut down. Restaurants. So I travelled. A lot. I was lucky to have the money to do so and it gave me a glimpse at what retirement would like and I can’t wait!
pollardsvision
Footballguy
The Jordan series right after was pretty sweet too.
Zow
Footballguy
Oh, wow, that's dumb. I think my club barely closed. They instilled a lot of the now seemingly silly rules about not touching flags or bunker rakes and the like, and most tournaments were canceled, but I played a lot of golf during Covid.
Zow
Footballguy
Covid ended my softball days. Had no idea at the time. Bit of a bummer as well.
Don Quixote
Footballguy
Yeah, I had a four year old when Covid hit and his daycare closed. My memories are mostly of setting my alarm for 4:30am, immediately making a cup of coffee and going straight to work, so I could try to get a few hours work in before he woke up. And my wife worked for FEMA, which helped with pandemic response; so, that made my tax attorney self feel the less critical of the pair. Of course, during performance reviews, had people saying I needed to talk more on calls, even though I was taking most of my calls with my son watching Cars in the background or something. Miserable times.
Zow
Footballguy
Similar situation where we adopted two kids over Zoom. With both our previous two adoptions we had big celebrations. This one we were alone when the hearing ended.
The Z Machine
Footballguy
Open carry cocktails as takeout from restaurants. Could walk around in the streets and drink all you wanted.
Ron Swanson
Footballguy
This was great. Our favorite local joint attempted to cook breakfast and sell it for take out through a back window along with to-go drinks. The breakfast was terrible, the drinks were not. Nothing like grabbing a gigantic bloody Mary (think 40 oz, maybe) and sitting at the beach or river with not another person in sight.
The river we live on (ICW/lagoon) tends to get turbid during the hot months. Not during COVID. The reduced boat traffic was great. Crystal clear water all summer.
One of our sales guys decided that a virtual happy hour was a good idea early on. And he decided we need to play quarters. So, I pre-recorded a perfect shot and put it on a loop while instructing him to drink with each made shot. No more virtual happy hour.
Road tripping all over the country with no traffic anywhere was glorious.
Discovering pickleball and finally getting in shape.
I miss the pandemic.
STEADYMOBBIN 22
Footballguy
Almost the same exact experience in regards to ball. Miss playing so much.
wlwiles
Footballguy
Wiping down groceries with Lysol wipes in the garage before bringing them into the house.
Virtual kindergarten in 2024-2025 school year. The school decided that in-person kindergarten wasn't mandatory as a means to try and reduce # of bodies in the building, so my wife pleaded with her employer to get a WFH year and stay home to help our daughter with a virtual year of school.
Wife and I sitting up numerous nights talking about how we could never be homeschoolers, and how we couldn't wait for the world to go back to normal, kid to be able to go back to school, how a year of non-socializing might mess her up development-wise, and on and on. We'd sit up MANY late nights just talking, hadn't done that in a while, I kind of miss it now...
Sitting in my driveway with a bottle of whiskey, chatting with my neighbor in his driveway ~30 ft away with his bottle of whiskey.
Virtual kindergarten in 2024-2025 school year. The school decided that in-person kindergarten wasn't mandatory as a means to try and reduce # of bodies in the building, so my wife pleaded with her employer to get a WFH year and stay home to help our daughter with a virtual year of school.
Wife and I sitting up numerous nights talking about how we could never be homeschoolers, and how we couldn't wait for the world to go back to normal, kid to be able to go back to school, how a year of non-socializing might mess her up development-wise, and on and on. We'd sit up MANY late nights just talking, hadn't done that in a while, I kind of miss it now...
Sitting in my driveway with a bottle of whiskey, chatting with my neighbor in his driveway ~30 ft away with his bottle of whiskey.
Scoresman
Footballguy
- The first grocery trip after lockdown began. I packed the shopping cart like I was loading my bunker before a nuclear apocalypse. Ate really well that first week or two.
- I'll tell you one memory I don't have. Getting COVID. 4+ years and as far as I know I've never had it. At this point I feel like I have that gene that makes you immune or something. Been exposed plenty of times, never got sick.
- I'll tell you one memory I don't have. Getting COVID. 4+ years and as far as I know I've never had it. At this point I feel like I have that gene that makes you immune or something. Been exposed plenty of times, never got sick.
massraider
Footballguy
Man, this reminds me of my mum ensuring her family was going to be able to wipe their *** during the great Toilet Paper Shortage (About three days in March 2020
).Buys a case online of those massive rolls, the kind they have in bus stations. No TP rationing was ever necessary, and to this day, there is a cardboard box the size of a small fridge that is constantly being moved out of the way.
I will 100% be dealing with the disposal of said case someday.
Riffraff
Footballguy
The good:
- No traffic
- References to being supported that felt real when outside the hospitals (patients still being 'not so nice' inside)
- missions memorable for a lifetime
- remote patient care got more popular
The bad:
- too much overtime
- burnout en-mass
- people blaming pre-existing issues on 'COVID'
- enviously reading / listening to people whine about all the free time they have
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much like remembering September 11th as a 'where were you when?' scenario...
- listening in real time to the radio chatter between pilots, air traffic control towers, and Homeland Defense entities
- watching TV views from CNN
- interacting with NORAD and CONR on counter-measures
- seeing the Air Sovereignty mission of an 'air picture' be void of military, civilian, and FAA flight information (blank screens) for the first time since commercial flight started - historic
- aftermath and cleanup
surreal
- No traffic
- References to being supported that felt real when outside the hospitals (patients still being 'not so nice' inside)
- missions memorable for a lifetime
- remote patient care got more popular
The bad:
- too much overtime
- burnout en-mass
- people blaming pre-existing issues on 'COVID'
- enviously reading / listening to people whine about all the free time they have
-----
much like remembering September 11th as a 'where were you when?' scenario...
- listening in real time to the radio chatter between pilots, air traffic control towers, and Homeland Defense entities
- watching TV views from CNN
- interacting with NORAD and CONR on counter-measures
- seeing the Air Sovereignty mission of an 'air picture' be void of military, civilian, and FAA flight information (blank screens) for the first time since commercial flight started - historic
- aftermath and cleanup
surreal
IvanKaramazov
Footballguy
Very good post, and I've thought about this a bit too. The difference is that covid played out in slow motion. Anybody who was paying attention and not in denial saw this coming way in advance. A few of us (FBGs) were making jokes about ordering Wuhan University merch for Halloween 2019, and I'm pretty sure college students got suspended for doing something along those lines. My family never ran out of toilet paper, pasta, or other staples because we loaded up while everybody else talking about how we should really we more worried about the seasonal flu and hippos. A huge number of people were still in complete denial when Italy was going all to hell. Like it was going to be different for us, for some reason.
So basically the pandemic taught me a lot about how other people acquire and process information. Needless to say, I learned a lot about this topic from 2019 to about 2022 or so.
DA RAIDERS
Footballguy
Kudos to my wife. She was way ahead of the panic as well.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
Lol. Tough restrictions when the players can't even scratch themselves.
Runkle
Footballguy
The girl I was dating was half my age at the time. I remember taking her out to dinner the Friday before lockdown, we'd just been told to take our laptops and work from home starting the next week. I asked if she'd like to stay over at my place "for a few days" until things settled down. Even while I was saying it, I knew it could backfire and be a mistake, but jumped off the cliff anyway. She was generally unemployed, one of those influencer/gig model types, mostly just posted pictures on her instagram to rep various weed brands. They'd send her free product and she'd post a picture. She happily accepted, she was eager to get more 'quality time' with me.
I'd wake up and open the laptop at 9am. She'd sleep in til like 11, then fire up a massive joint and get baked. She's half Jewish, half Italian, and both of her grandmothers from their respective 'old countries' taught her how to cook, so she'd get high as a kite, put on only one of my old tshirts, then spend 3 hours in my kitchen. Remember Paulie in Goodfellas cooking in prison? It was like that, she'd spend 20 minutes getting the garlic razor thin. She'd cook up something completely amazing for lunch for us. We'd eat and chill, I'd go back to work, she'd smoke another joint and get started on dinner for another few hours. I'd finish work, we'd eat and enjoy the evening.
I miss those days sometimes.
I'd wake up and open the laptop at 9am. She'd sleep in til like 11, then fire up a massive joint and get baked. She's half Jewish, half Italian, and both of her grandmothers from their respective 'old countries' taught her how to cook, so she'd get high as a kite, put on only one of my old tshirts, then spend 3 hours in my kitchen. Remember Paulie in Goodfellas cooking in prison? It was like that, she'd spend 20 minutes getting the garlic razor thin. She'd cook up something completely amazing for lunch for us. We'd eat and chill, I'd go back to work, she'd smoke another joint and get started on dinner for another few hours. I'd finish work, we'd eat and enjoy the evening.
I miss those days sometimes.
Every working parent I know (including me) that didn't totally outsource childcare during that period is still scarred.
We live in suburban NJ, so we were never really cooped up. But early on, the parks around here were all closed. So if we wanted to get away from our yard and were tired of walking around our neighborhood, we'd pack some lunch, get in the car and go drive to various parking lots with "nice" (relative to everything else) views and eat in the car. Lunch was always hot dogs on buns with ketchup and mayo (even though I'm usually a mustard guy). Somehow, when I think about that I'm able to very clearly imagine the exact flavor and smell of those hot dogs, much more clearly than I can for most other foods.
BlackCrowes
Footballguy
don't put too many onions in the sauce
BlackCrowes
Footballguy
i remember at the time seeing a friend post on FB something like "I've already planned out my next 6 meals...." and getting a good laugh out of it.
HellToupee
Footballguy
Worked the entire time , highway commute that was usually a PIA was absolutely beautiful. Good times
Courtjester
The Town Drunk
I would like to think I was one that saw this thing coming. If you look in the Covid thread, there were a couple of us that were already preparing in January. I can still remember one of the posters mentioning they were already practicing "social distancing" and they about got laughed off this board as this phrase was completely unknown at the time.
But I think that prepping was one of most enjoyable parts of Covid. To be transparent, my family was never one to do this prior to it. However, I am a huge end of the world/zombie apocalypse movie lover. Throughout my life, I have had trouble sleeping and one of the exercises I do to calm my mind is "Okay, the event is happening. Go!!!" and then I will start planning in my head the response. Usually after a short period, I am asleep. Weird, I know, but in January, I got to do this in real-time and luckily, I had a wife that indulged me.
Sams and Cosco runs, setting up a food delivery company, local dairy delivery, stocking up on propane tanks, Amazon bringing in everything we could need, going to the local liquor store and having them bring out copious amounts of beer. Admittedly I probably went a tad overboard as my wife still finds boxes of stuff and wonders why we needed 100 AAA batteries, but you never know!!
I have lived a pretty boring life (same town, same wife for 35 years,same job for many years--until I retired last year), but this time period was terrifying, challenging, and I don't meant to come across as callous to those that lost people, but prepping was exciting and kind of made me feel that I was handling things in a real life movie.I loved working from home for a year. Our teenage daughter was going through some mental health challenges and I think getting to be here with her 24/7 was important. We saved a ton of money during this time.
The bad:
I am still carrying around my Covid 25 and I need to lose this weight.
We had just adopted a kitten in 2019 and with us being around him constantly during this pandemic, he became a very co-dependent little guy. Today if he finds himself alone in a room, it is like the end of the world for him.
I have collected sports cards for over 30 years and during this time, this became the "IN" thing to do. Prices of card boxes soared to levels where I couldn't afford them. The problem is, the market to this day has not corrected and they still are beyond my reach.
Eephus
Footballguy
My daughter @ditkaburgers lives in an apartment downstairs from our flat. She was furloughed during the pandemic and her gym was closed so we took daily walks all over the northeast quadrant of San Francisco exploring places and hills I'd never been before. Our dog Bosley had died two weeks before lockdown (RIP) so ditkaburgers and I would get points for spotting dogs (and eventually) cats looking out of windows at us. After finishing our walks, we'd come back and do workout videos on YouTube; my abs haven't been that tight since.
Doug B
Footballguy
I did something similar on something I always call "Tom Hanks Day" - Wednesday, March 11th, 2020. That was the day the NBA ceased operations and the day Tom Hanks announced that he and his wife had COVID.
I got both bits of news at around 9:00 p.m. Our closest grocery closes at 11:00 p.m. I remember high-tailing it over there and shopping as if it were for hurricane preparations. Basically, I expected groceries to either close or start having sharply restricted hours. Really just a lot of uncertainty in the moment.
For months afterwards, I remember how had it was to buy paper towels, TP, and hand sanitizer. Whenever I'd run across them, I'd over-buy. Finding a new place that had a semi-steady supply was positively exciting! It would never last, though -- people would find out.
I remember going to get large bottles of hand sanitizer at one of our local spirits distilleries sometime in the spring of 2020. That stuff lasted us about six months. Around the same time, a seamstress friend of the family started making and selling nice cloth masks, which carried us through for about the next 18 months or so.
Both my kids had their 2020 birthdays as drive-bys, with yard signs and all. When the original strain was waning and before Delta & Omicron, my daughter was able to have a nice outdoor high-school graduation party in May 2021. I remember checking Worldometers daily during that time, looking at the dwindling numbers, and feeling like COVID was pretty much over. Went on vacation in July 2021 right as Delta was starting up (had no impact on the vacation, though). Then Thanksgiving 2021 ... reading about the onset of Omicron (then only in South Africa -- would it spread? Yep).
After 2002 SARS, and avian flu, and West Nile, and Zika, and so on ... I remember casting aside early COVID reports January/February 2020. To this day, I still think Mother Nature swished a blindfolded full-court shot, with her off hand, through a Pop-A-Shot sized rim.
Doug B
Footballguy
Are those posts still searchable? 2019, for real?
Leroy Hoard
Footballguy
My question is whether those items are still available? Asking for a friend who never thinks anything is "too soon".
tri-man 47
Footballguy
With running races shut down, our 10K Thread organized a sequence of races. Over three months, we had a 10K, a 5K, and a one mile race. We ended up with two teams of 12, which included the wife of one of the guys as well as one of the group working over in Paris. Two of our top runners picked their teams. In each of the months, we designated a long weekend’ish time block for each runner to complete the run and post the time (via Strava).
It ended up being very competitive, and it was epic. Runners from both teams were posting incredibly fast times (aided by having the option of finding a downhill route). I think the only event in the thread that was more electric was when everyone followed @SFBayDuck ’s successful attempt to complete the Western States 100 mile ultra in the Sierra Nevada mountains several years back.
It ended up being very competitive, and it was epic. Runners from both teams were posting incredibly fast times (aided by having the option of finding a downhill route). I think the only event in the thread that was more electric was when everyone followed @SFBayDuck ’s successful attempt to complete the Western States 100 mile ultra in the Sierra Nevada mountains several years back.
IvanKaramazov
Footballguy
No idea. Keep in mind that there was also a covid thread in the PSF that is probably lost to time. This may have been the sort of thing that landed in the PSF and not the FFA even though it wasn't really political per se.
Edit: Maybe I'm misremembering "Halloween," but I vividly remember somebody on this forum finding someplace that sold Wuhan U sweatshirts/t-shirts before everything went seriously south.
General Malaise
Footballguy
Spent a couple days outside of McCall ID in Aug 2020. It was like Covid didn't exist there. No masks anywhere. No mention of it. It was weird.
Depending on how old you are, your achilles is probably thanking you.......
foxco
Footballguy
Owner of a local pizza joint yelling at me to take my mask off or get the hell out. For whatever reason he bought in to the Covid is a myth thing from the beginning and was very vocal about people not wearing masks in his place. He would throw kids out supposedly if they wore masks. About a month later owner of said pizza joint was dead from Covid.
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