Quote Originally Posted by Pooh View Post
Quote Originally Posted by Dan Druff View Post
I've done:

- No live poker since early February

- No vacations since 2019

- No restaurants since mid-March, and only one restaurant from early February to mid March (which was a mistake, but fortunately nothing happened)

- No takeout since early-mid April

- No supermarkets since early-mid April, aside from my brief foray into Target at 10pm last week in a failed attempt to get toilet paper

- No seeing anyone socially outside my household except my parents since early February



All of this sucks. The food I'm eating is incredibly repetitive, I miss live poker, I miss going on vacations, I miss going to Las Vegas, I miss fast food and takeout, I miss seeing friends, and I miss the WSOP (even with the yearly Caesars fail).

What gets me through it is that I can see my parents (because I'm so careful), and I have my girlfriend and son with me the entire time (being alone would suck). Also, I remember two years ago when I was suffering through my severe anxiety/depression, which was 100x worse for me than this. Honestly, that was a miserable day-to-day experience. This isn't miserable for me personally, just frustrating and repetitive, and I feel very bad watching others die and suffer. I am thankful that I'm not experiencing financial problems like so many others right now, because that would be especially awful. I know that I am in a fortunate position here compared to most, and I appreciate that.
lol. I haven't been here since March but after reading your post why even be alive? What a worthless POS life.

I've done:

Several vacations this year

Been going to restaurants through the entire pandemic

Been to Disney World twice and going again next two weekends

Been to several resorts with OMG buffets!

Stayed at enough hotels to count on two hands

Played around 80 rounds of golf etc etc etc

And guess what?! I've never had the black plague that is corona virus. Do I wear a mask? Sure I do. I'm not an a hole. But I also realize if I do get this thing I have a 99.8% chance of not dying because for somebody of my age group and health it's the flu. My brother in law just got it. I played golf with him Sunday and he didn't feel well Sunday night so he got tested and came back positive. He's 53 and overweight. Says it feels like a cold except he has a metal taste in his mouth. I got tested yesterday. Negative. This isn't to say I won't get it but if I do I deal with it like I deal with the flu. Email I get from CDC after testing basically says if you test positive 99% have little to no symptoms blah blah blah.

Guess the media got to you dude. I'm embarrassed for you. I actually stopped listening to radio because I knew you would get all stupid over this thing and I guess I was right.

Happy Thanksgiving but get a fucking life I mean come on already.
I get people not wanting to play poker in the pandemic or go on a plane. Everyone has their own tolerance for risk. I'll even give you not eating inside a restaurant since most are not enforcing any social distance rules, at least from what I have seen. I went to Chilis today for pickup and the place was mobbed, not one mask to be seen except staff and they had cloth ones on which have been proven not to work.

But not getting takeout or going to a grocery store or not having a beer in your backyard with a buddy is fucking bizarre. I did some takeout from a Chinese place the other day, and some 300 lbs woman was in the equivalent of a hazmat suit but was still ordering the most caloric items on the menu, and lots of them. How does that make sense as far as health goes?

Probably only 50% of the people are going to take the vaccine by May, there will be the inevitable social media stories that manifest about people ending up in comas, so the number will drop next go around. Corona is going to be here for several years, and there will people who will never leave their homes and just wither away. Most people age 18-30 will probably never take the vaccine since they are effectively symptom free so they don't care. I mean how many Hooters waitresses are going to wait in line to get it, the first dose, then come back 21 days later for the second one? My guess is single digits. I never took a flu shot when I was say 25, and rarely wore a rubber in the 90s when 'the experts' said AIDS was going to kill everyone. It's just the way it is.

My rule is don't go out of your way to get the virus, like go to a Mega Church with 1,000 people or march about some left wing bullshit. But fuck you only live until your 80 or so, how much time do you want to forfeit?