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I Miss My Bar
- Nightshaxx 6y agoThis is amazing! The playlist is really great!
- _uwiz 6y agoIt's cool. I wish I could be happy. But for me, this sort of thing just sends me further into a deep depression. It ain't right. Pictures of food don't fix hunger. I hope that we snap out of all of this soon. Writing these comments, just to leave a log, in case someone cares, if it all goes wrong. I miss having the ability to miss. Having the feeling that others exist. Right now I feel that other people stopped existing.
- PraetorianGourd 6y agoDon't be afraid to ask for help, don't be afraid to seek support. We are all feeling this right now, some more than others. I am just some rando on the internet, but if you need to talk to someone let me know. <3
- _uwiz 6y agoedit: every day it gets worse, not better. https://esotericnonsense.com https://esotericnonsense.com
- PraetorianGourd 6y agoI think this is somewhat tongue in cheek, almost a form of gallows' humor. Sometimes people deal with this sadness, pain, and isolation with humor, others create silly shit as a way of distracting themselves. People are still people, we are just being told that people are unsafe, with an invisible enemy attacking. I think these lockdowns are too far, I think we can't hide from danger. Most people disagree with me. I can't say I've found a way to deal with this. I am depressed. I take medicine, but that only worked when things were normal. I am more depressed than I can remember, but it feels numb. When I was depressed in the past, I was actively sad, actively self-harming through excessive drug use. Now I am just, existing, like you said. But there is hope. We can get out of this mess, things are getting better. Hopefully things will be better soon.
- mixmastamyk 6y agoAnd some of us have been cooped up with spouse and kids for almost a year. When I get a little alone time I'm especially grateful. Still, I'd love to go to this bar! Or the pub down the street.
- _uwiz 6y agoThe way things are going at the moment, I'll have to emigrate to somewhere "sane" like Belarus in order to even meet another person.
- pjc50 6y agoYou can meet new friends at the street protests against the dictator!
- possiblelion 6y agoEstonia is a better option. Bars and restaurants are open, all without a bloody dictator.
- Doctor_Fegg 6y agoAlso the highest Covid rate in Europe right now, I believe?
- 74d-fe6-2c6 6y agoMy s/o is Estonian. The thing is - yes, rates are high - but ... that's about it. There is not much going on beyond incidence rates being high. Which makes me question the panic.
- yao420 6y agoI feel the same in Texas, we don’t have strict lockdowns and I’ve been going to gym, restaurants, and bars since June. Sure our rates are ‘high’ but are on par with places like California and New York who have very strict lockdowns.
- FriedrichN 6y agoI've been joking that I don't know what a woman looks like anymore. But it's kind of true, if I see people at all it's either through a camera or they're wearing a face mask. I really miss just having a cup of coffee and talking to other people about nothing at all. Sure you can call people but it's hard to talk about nothing or just sit and look at the people going by on the phone.
- underseacables 6y agoI miss being spontaneous about going out. I’m not even sure what restaurants are still open, what bars have gone out of business, why can’t we return to normal already?
- psychstudio 6y agoDeath and disease?
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- forgotmypw17 6y agoIt's a great opportunity for non-commercial spontaneity, choosing not between "what bar to go to", but which direction to walk in, and really taking in reality.
- _uwiz 6y agoThis is illegal in my country.
- forgotmypw17 6y agoMy condolences on your loss of freedom. May you find a way to move about freely in the near future.
- tomcooks 6y agoWhich country more or less is it? When the hot season will arrive will you be able to go out and make an impromptu bar with friends somewhere free (public squares, forests, beaches, etc.)
- oarsinsync 6y agoPredicting the future is difficult. After the overall incompetence of leadership that 2020 brought in many western countries, making any rational predictions about 2021 is irrational in itself. Based on their website, GP is likely in the UK. There’s vague hope based on vaccination rates, but given the number of self-inflicted own-goals by this government, anything more than vague hope now feels like setting oneself up for disappointment.
- ms123 6y agoHey I miss going to pubs as well! That’s why I’ve opened https://midnight.pub https://midnight.pub cheers!
- Animats 6y agoCross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at https://api.airtable.com/v0/appFuV5HKjidiZXoS/imissmybar https://api.airtable.com/v0/appFuV5HKjidiZXoS/imissmybar. (Reason: CORS request did not succeed).
- unicornporn 6y agohttps://gossips.cafe/ https://gossips.cafe/
- tomcooks 6y agoMaybe it's the rural setup where I'm from, but I'm glad that in 2020 and 2021 I barely visited bars. Summer was spent by lakes and forests, drinking beers, cocktails, appetizers, and eating freshly grilled BBQ for a fraction of the price, having quality time in the sun with friends. I don't miss commercial society, I don't miss their tropes and their rituals. Fake friendship and banter from people hanging around to get some of my money in exchange of half a glass of ice and a dribble of liquor. Bonus annoyance this year: the eternal covid lamentations of bar and restaurant owners, as if governments purposely wanted to destroy their businesses, as if one's bar is more important than other people lives, as if they didn't paint themselves and their stupid restaurant for years as an example of entrepreneurship (apparently the free market is a good idea only when your business goes well). To hell with paid service, picnics and aperitivi in the main square with cheap liquor and (honestly) friendly smiles. "I command this dump to wither, board its doors and windows forever" as Dan Feeder says.
- kungito 6y agoWell it's easy to say this about summer but in the winter you have no options. It's too cold to hang out outside, play sports or whatever. You could hand out at each other's houses but people prefer to have neutral ground where no one has to prepare for everyone else
- 3np 6y agoIn some countries, you're even forbidden from having visitors in your home.
- wayanon 6y agoI gave up booze in Dec 2019 as a (temporary?) experiment so lockdown has been helpful for me as I don’t have to not drink with friends in bars. But I know lots of people miss it and I hate seeing business owners in trouble.
- jlengrand 6y agoCongrats on being over a year sober then!
- TaylorAlexander 6y agoI gave it up March 2020 and I’m coming up on one year. Feels great!
- Glawen 6y agonever really understood this severance. You can drink without getting drunk. I like to drink good beverages, but I don't like being drunk, so I just take a few glasses.
- kortilla 6y ago> You can drink without getting drunk. No shit. The problem is that when you get into the habit of drinking 2-3 drinks every night you’re bordering substance abuse. Also, “a few glasses” is enough to be arrested for drunk driving, so you might not be the caricature of a drunk but you’re drunk nonetheless. Severance is a great way to understand your relationship with alcohol. The only reason it even seems weird is because the shit is so deeply embedded in our society. If you give up caffein, nobody gives a shit. Give up alcohol and suddenly people express incredulity at the very notion!
- oarsinsync 6y ago> The problem is that when you get into the habit of drinking 2-3 drinks every night you’re bordering substance abuse If you're drinking 3 bottles of beer a night, 7 days a week, you're likely consuming 6 units of alcohol a day, or 42 a week. The NHS (UK health service) recommends less than 14 units a week, spread across at least 3 days (so less than 5 units a day, 3 days a week, tops).[0] Drinking 3 beers a day 7 days a week results in you drinking more than 3 times the maximum weekly recommended allowance. I think we're largely in agreement about how one can drink, but 2-3 drinks a day is not 'bordering' on substance abuse from a health perspective. Societally we've normalised drinking to this level, but it's not healthly, and is absolutely substance abuse. It took me tracking my alcohol consumption daily before I realised that my 1-2 beers a weekday / 4-6 beers a weekendday was so far beyond what is healthy, that I stopped entirely for 6 months. I've since backslid back into 1-2 beers a day. I know it's wrong, but most of life is right now anyway that it doesn't seem like that big a deal anymore. [0] https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/alcohol-support/calculating-alcohol-units/ https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/alcohol-support/calculating-alc...
- RalfWausE 6y agoI think the psychological toll of the lockdowns in different countries is highly underestimated. I myself have no real economical shortcomings due to the lockdown, but even as a person who is normaly a total loner and who can spend weeks completely alone on a excessive hiking trip i am slowly going crazy... For my wife, who is a highly social character, its even worse. And i am not the only one in this mindset... what i hear and see in my region let me believe the mood is slowly turning into some sort of "Torches and Pitchforks" way...
- rpadovani 6y agoI feel you: my life is as good as it can get during this challenging time, I live with my SO in a somewhat large apartment, we both still work, I from home and she from office, we don't have any sick relative, nor kids, so we have our space, and we don't have to worry about money or anything at all. I'm quite loner on my own, and the first lockdown was quite a breeze. But these days I'm becoming more and more tired, and I spend my time after work doing basic nothing. Also watching a movie is boring! I have no idea how people with kids, or without job stability, or with relatives to take care off haven't gone crazy yet!
- germinalphrase 6y agoI know others feel differently, but my toddler has actually been a reprieve. Each day has been some small step forward, some word or new idea discovered. There’s bad with the good, of course - but I don’t know that I would have had the time to see all this if I weren’t home.
- powersnail 6y agoI feel that. I'm a loner, in normal times. But the prolonged isolation had induced me to participate a lot more in online forums, more than I should. They had grown to be increasingly addicting, because how my life is now lacking inter-personal interactions.
- Cthulhu_ 6y agoSame, I mean we didn't really go out as a rule anyway, but we would go into town for a stroll, shop and a beer or two, or the cinema, little things like that. We're all right, but it's slowly wearing us down. But there's people who are seriously worn down by it. I for one am glad I'm not alone, I'm not sure I would be in any good mental state right now if my girlfriend hadn't moved in two years ago. I can really imagine the torches and pitchforks more and more. Because my country didn't do enough during the summer last year, cases spiked after people went back to work and school. The measures and carefulness of people failed because things kept going on for too long. And now the government has set a curfew, which messes with the only time I actually go out during the day (taking the dog for a walk just before midnight). It feels like we're being punished for something other people did. They're still handing out thousands of tickets a week (although those will likely all be voided because a court decided the curfew was introduced on the wrong grounds), they're still breaking up a hundred parties a week, and there's still millions of people that go to work every day even though they can work from home. At the current rate, it'll take the rest of the year before we get to an 80% vaccination rate. I mean I hope things will return to a semblance of normality by the summer (last year the number of cases went down sharply after flu season finished), but I'm afraid we'll be stuck for another year at least.
- WalterGR 6y agoOn mobile Chrome on iPhone, adjusting the sliders doesn’t seem to have any effect. I must be missing something?
- bmn__ 6y agoUse the play buttons. They look like a triangle pointing to the right.
- WalterGR 6y agoI’m familiar with play buttons. Adjusting the sliders does nothing, such as changing the playlist. What am I missing?
- bearbawl 6y agoNo it’s the same for me. On mobile, the play/pause buttons work but the sliders don’t do anything.
- hankchinaski 6y agoi seem to have issues with safari as well on mac, works on chrome
- possiblelion 6y agoI love the music choices. Cool to see Lexsoul Dancemachine in the playlist too, cheers from Estonia!
- rusk 6y agoDunno if anyone missed it but there’s a really sweet playlist down the bottom. The opener. What a tune https://open.spotify.com/track/6uDF1hOBaZmVNRGZm1NE7g?si=RQzHAwC3Qiy5weNGRd82PA https://open.spotify.com/track/6uDF1hOBaZmVNRGZm1NE7g?si=RQz...
- speedgoose 6y agoThe TLS certificate expired a while ago.
- intricatedetail 6y agoYou miss the bar or the environment you ingested alcohol in? When your brain misses the ethanol high it is reminding you about the circumstances and makes you want to repeat it.
- corobo 6y agoSpoken like a true HNer hahaha I miss the PEOPLE.
- globular-toast 6y agoWhen I see stuff like this it reminds me just how different I am to many people. It feels like I'm an alien trying to understand a new civilisation. I used to go to "bars" and the like, but it was only to meet women and get laid. Now that I've secured the means to reproduction I don't have to force myself through that hell any more. Sites like this suggest there is something attractive about such places even if you take the sex away. I'm so happy, happier than I've ever been, that I don't have to go to bars or drink alcohol ever again.
- ycombinete 6y ago“Secured the means to reproduction”, sure does sound like something an alien, trying to act human, would say about finding a partner. A lot of people, especially in pub cultures like the UK socialise at their locals, they don’t just go there to aggressively pursue sex with strangers. It’s where they meet their friends after work, where they go to watch sport on the weekend etc.
- globular-toast 6y agoI know. I live in the UK. I literally started my comment saying how different I am to other people and people keep replying about how not everyone is like me. Is reading comprehension really this bad or am I just rubbish at writing? I'm always happy to learn if it's the latter.
- ycombinete 6y agoWell when you say this: > Sites like this suggest there is something attractive about such places even if you take the sex away. It implies that you don’t know what that “something” is. This is what the replies to your comment are addressing.
- coldpie 6y agoYou're rubbish at writing.
- np- 6y ago
- keyle 6y agoThis is very interesting but I picture the image of sitting alone in a bar, which is not the kind of thing I'd want to picture. Meaning, all this stuff I usually try to tune off or ignore when I am(was) out.
- dep_b 6y agoFor a second I thought the title was about a developer that bought an M1 MacBook Air and realised he or she liked the Touch Bar after all.
- m12k 6y agoFor some reason I went in expecting either someone complaining about a UI redesign where a bar had been removed, or a former lawyer commiserating about being disbarred.
- whywhywhywhy 6y agoExtremely unlikely any of the ones I frequented will reopen in my country. They survived the first lockdown but this one will surely have killed them off. Probably result in the historical buildings being sold off to be turned into luxury apartments.
- dep_b 6y agoI need some downtime from people in order to recharge my social battery. I really enjoy being around people but I just can't do it 24/7. Having your whole family around all of the time is really stressing since my social battery is empty and stays empty. This is where an office or a commute happens, by the time you get home you really missed everybody, at least when everything is going right ;)
- heikkilevanto 6y agoI tried the background sounds for a while. Didn't really make me feel like my usual bar - none of the regular customers there, no good discussions, no meeting new people. After a while I didn't hear the noise at all, it just blended in the background. Then I switched it off, and realized how much it had been filling. Fun experiment.
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- brodouevencode 6y agoMe being a meathead thought this was about lifting weights.
- mikestew 6y agoYeah, we miss that, too. My wife bought a gym membership at the local "meathead" gym (i. e., not a national franchise) right before I went into the hospital December 2019. While I spent about three months and another surgery recovering, man, I was going to so hit that gym when I was ready. Yeah, well, I was ready to hit that gym smack in the middle of March 2020. Point is, we paid for a year's membership we never used. And we're going to pay again this year just so the place stays in business (Eastside Gym for you Redmond, WA folks). One of these years we'll actually darken the doorstep of the place. In the meantime, our garage now has a new treadmill and rowing machine, and I finally tracked down some adjustable dumbbells. I'm a distance runner, so that should tide us over. If you're a lifter and don't have a big stack of plates at home already, my sympathies.
- woutr_be 6y agoThe only time I felt the pandemic affected me was when they closed the gyms. I was on a 5 day workout routine before, and suddenly being without that was the moment I started struggling. The gyms have finally opened up again two days ago, and while most of my body is hurting now, my mental well-being is going up again.
- brodouevencode 6y agoThe lack of gyms has hurt people in immeasurable ways. For some it’s a way of life, if not just good therapy. There are more victims to covid than those that contracted the virus.
- baud147258 6y agoI miss the bars a little (I wasn't too much for going out), but the current 6 pm curfew is rather annoying, how I can't do anything after work. Of course I adjusted my habits, going shopping or running during lunch breaks or the week end, but still
- snakeboy 6y agoIn France, I've slowly started returning to nighttime walks and runs, and I haven't been hassled by any police yet. I guess I'll gladly take the fine if some cop is on a power-trip one night. Some désobéissance civile is healthy :) Though you're right grocery shopping is a pain.
- skynet-9000 6y agoA 6pm curfew? In heavily urban parts of the U.S. and perhaps other parts of the world, people don't even get home from work by then, and the virus doesn't pay too much attention to what time it is either.
- baud147258 6y agohere in France, a lot of people who went to work aren't back home at 6 pm, but I think they aren't really the people targeted by the measure, but rather those who go see friends to have a drink in the evening
- skynet-9000 6y agoThat's tough. Seems like if they're going to a tiny and consistent group of friends' homes in the evening to have a drink, then they're effectively an extension of your family and any spread would be limited to that relatively small group (unlike in a bar). And if they're actually going to a bar instead, then just close the bar at 6pm. A general curfew seems like a chainsaw approach, instead of a scalpel.
- bookmarkable 6y agoCool bit of audio mixing. I'd appreciate "IMissLiveSports" personally, and "IMissLiveMusic" that could played in the background of any other music would be fun, too.
- depingus 6y agoThe NFL was piping crowd noise in to their empty stadiums all season. Some games seemed to have a live person controlling the crowd reactions. Not the same, but I got used to it. For the music, can't you just listen to recordings from live concerts? Those usually have plenty of crowd noise.
- C4stor 6y agoI really like it :-) (It's telling a lot about the state of the internet that this site loads google malware, but won't remember where I let the sliders when I refresh the page though.)
- twostorytower 6y agoThis is a fantastic alternative to Noisly. Thank you!
- mam2 6y agowho care about lockdowns lol. just make private parties like everybody else
- andygcook 6y agoFor anyone missing the sounds of their local coffee shop, checkout Coffitivity: https://coffitivity.com https://coffitivity.com Not affiliated. Just like to put it on sometimes with a good indie playlist while I'm drinking coffee and doing work.
- Balgair 6y agoYT is great for this as well! I've been using these 'ambiance soundscapes' to help me get in the right mood a lot during the pandemic. It's also really useful for DnD sessions, writing fiction (or non-fiction too!), and for getting house/work done. Here's some links, but searching for the right mood is fairly straightforward on YT: Summer ambiance : https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=summer+ambience https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=summer+ambience Aircraft Carrier ambiance : https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=aircraft+carrier+ambience https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=aircraft+carrie... 'Epic' music : https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=hero+music https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=hero+music Cafe ambiance : https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=cafe+ambience+ https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=cafe+ambience+ Hufflepuff ambiance : https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=hufflepuff+common+room https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=hufflepuff+comm... Such is the width of YouTubers that you can pretty much find anything you'd like!
- rchaud 6y agoThanks for making this! I love these types of independent creative projects that don't rely on third party content to work (minus the Spotify embed). There is something about ambient noise from people that helps me work and focus. Offices and coffee shops closing has saved me a ton of transit and coffee money but it's hurt my productivity a lot. With Youtube 1hr mixes of ambient people sounds and Pomodoros, I'm doing a bit better.
- EdwardCoffin 6y agoSimilar is Sounds of the Bodleian [1], which offers ambient noises from four different reading rooms in the Bodleian library (the main research library at the University of Oxford). [1] https://www.ox.ac.uk/soundsofthebodleian/#radcam https://www.ox.ac.uk/soundsofthebodleian/#radcam
- UI_at_80x24 6y agoWhat I find most interesting about this whole pandemic, is that my life hasn't changed in any noticeable way. I work from home more then I did before, but I still need to go do work in-person on our servers occasionally. I go get groceries on Saturdays (although I need to stand in line now). I wake-up, work, eat supper, watch something on TV and/or have computer time, goto bed, repeat. My wife hasn't left the house since March or so. But she's an introvert like me. But by any measurable metric, my life hasn't been inconvenienced. And I know that I am lucky.
- edmundofuentes 6y agoThat's our local bar in Monterrey, Mexico [1]! We received some paper flyers with a QR when we had our first lockdown, it's nice seeing it pop up in HN. If anyone's wondering, the bar is still open and operating on a very limited capacity, which has made it much nicer in my opinion. Also, the usual jazz quartet has been replaced with a trio with much younger musicians, since understandably the older musicians don't want to play in a bar during a pandemic. [1] Maverick Monterrey - Lugar de Encuentros https://www.maverickmty.com https://www.maverickmty.com
- jdxcode 6y agoHow is Monterrey for tourism? I've always been more interested in what Mexico is for most Mexicans than the typical tourist spots. It seems that Monterrey is the most "metropolitan" city in Mexico.
- edmundofuentes 6y agoI've lived here for 10 years, so I might be a little biased. Monterrey is by far the most "americanized" city in Mexico, no doubt, and it's mostly a business and industrial hub. As for tourism, there’s not much to do, at least not when compared to other Mexican cities with more heritage and culture. Being a big metropolitan city, there are many fine restaurants and entertainment attractions, and for me the stand-out landmark is Chipinque, a federal park in the mountains inside the city. You can go there to walk, hike, or ride, and you get a very nice view of the metropolitan area. All in all, if you were making a tourist trip to Mexico, I’d recommend you pick some place else before coming to Monterrey. However, if you get to come here as a business trip, you’ll definitely have a nice time!
- alpineidyll3 6y agoMonterrey is lovely. Great mountain to hike, great food, great cheap hotels, safe IMO.
- nomdep 6y agoWhen you see the owner, please tell they to add their address including city and country somewhere. I was wondering where in the world they were located and I couldn't find it anywhere, not even in their FB page.
- sapsan 6y agoTo add to the collection of websites recreating acoustic environments, there's https://imisstheoffice.eu https://imisstheoffice.eu for office sounds.
- samgranieri 6y agoThank you for posting this. I've missed the spontaneous social interaction of meeting up with friends at a bar after work with this pandemic going on. Things are starting to open up a bit in Chicago, but it won't be the same for a long time.
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- mysql 6y agoI use http://phanary.com/ http://phanary.com/ which has a ton of sounds and similar controls.
- at_a_remove 6y agoI miss quarterly visits with a friend in a town midway between us. Just us in a hotel room, watching movies, going out to dinner, looking for new places or revisiting the old, chit-chatting away. We still communicate now but it lacks the spontaneity of our usual routine. On a weekly basis, I miss "camping out" at my Starbucks and reading, growing slowly more wired on caffeine. This is the lack that seems to have put me off of my game the most, despite it not having a whole lot of personal interaction.
- ivan888 6y agoJust being able to go out into the social world without a plan is something I miss a lot. It feels like every time I leave the house now, I have a very direct objective and I try to accomplish it as quickly as possible with as little human interaction as possible
- kelnos 6y agoI hadn't thought about this aspect of it, but that's completely the case for me as well. It's emotionally draining in a way I didn't realize.
- skocznymroczny 6y agoUntil people rise up against the restrictions, the restrictions will continue and will be more restrictive over time. There's always a third, fourth, fifth wave, there's always a new strain immune to current vaccines. Just hold on for two weeks so we can defeat the virus!
- RhodoGSA 6y agoI don't really understand why this can get downvoted... Seems like pure HN censorship to me. I fully agree. We need to do something, whether that be writing your senators, protesting in the streets or making your voice heard for what you believe in. If you have an opinion that is different from others and your opinion is valid. It should never be discounted even if others believe it is wrong. Discourse is the key to rational thinking.
- pragmatic8 6y agoIndeed. It truly is mind-boggling that certain governments seem like they want to literally obliterate the virus and drive the number of cases all the way to zero. Heck, why don't they enforce a quarantine until the common cold disappears as well?
- dominotw 6y agoI think not knowing when this is ending is worst part. I now know what the protagonist of the movie 'oldboy' meant by that. also on a unrelated note, "you will see in two weeks" crowd seems to have completely disappeared.
- mStreamTeam 6y agoThe "two weeks to flatten the curve" feels like gaslghting in retrospect.
- majewsky 6y agoWe did flatten the curve. You just don't get to see the alternate reality where we didn't.
- mStreamTeam 6y agoI'm not questioning the flattening the curve part. I'm saying the 2 weeks part was gaslighting. What they should have said is "one year or greater to flatten the curve." That would have been honest
- blamestross 6y agoWhat the parent comment is trying to say is that we did accomplish the goal of those two weeks. The curve was flattened. Your perspective is a result of not living in the universe were it was a lot worse. This isn't the best time line, but it is one of the better ones.
- steve_adams_86 6y agoI think the error here is perceiving errors from medical authorities as having emotional or manipulative motivations. First masks were unnecessary and hand washing was crucial. Now it’s essentially the reverse. It helps to wash hands of course but we realize it’s less of a vector. Then various governments said it’ll be over by summer. Then various governments said it’ll be a year. No one was attempting to gaslight; this was the culmination of millions of professionals doing their best to make sense of the situation, and occasionally, uncertain terms being communicated incorrectly. This is normal. The decision to perceive non-optimal performance in an incredibly complex situation as an attack on a population is yours, and you’re welcome to it. I simply don’t see the point.
- RhodoGSA 6y agoI don't miss my bar - because me and all my friends never stopped going. What people who 'Listened' don't realise is that people still go out... in every city. Most sheriff's in California have flat out refused to comply with the lockdown regulations. Since when did America get the ability to shutdown business'? Never.... During this Pandemic i've lost three 'Friends' (Social Media acquaintances I knew from HS) to suicide and have not heard of a single person who's had any long-term damage from Covid and the majority of my friends have has it at one point in time by now. I got it in early March in SF and again in July in Miami. Both times i caught a little sniffle. I got tested and quarantined but it did not stop me or scare me away from living my life. Most of my friends have the money, willpower and social distain for authoritarian governments to move to wherever state is not trying to follow China's example. (Mainly Socal, Florida, even Mexico) Smoking cigs, riding motorcycles, and a million other things can kill you in this life. Live your life and anyone who tells you "You must do this for the saftey of others" can go fuck themselves. You have no right to tell me what I can and can't do as long as i am not causing DIRECT harm to you. If you're scared of COVID stay inside, but let the rest of us live our lives.
- misterS 6y ago> anyone who tells you "You must do this for the saftey of others" can go fuck themselves. You have no right to tell me what I can and can't do as long as i am not causing DIRECT harm to you. Do you not count spreading a virus & possibly infecting others as causing direct harm?
- RhodoGSA 6y agoNo - I don't. If you are at a bar at the height of the pandemic, i'm definitely not causing you any harm by being there also. However, I do avoid my family who might be older. I don't go to large family gatherings. I do, however, believe American Ideals of freedom and free speech have definitely been harmed through this ordeal. No one can have any different opinion about COVID without being canceled. As we are getting more and more data, the infection rate to death ratio is dropping lower and lower. At what point does Forcing people to lose their job and their entire lively-hoods, Taking on massive amounts of national debt that MY GENERATION will have to pay for, massive suicide increases going to be counted as direct harm? When we find out in the future after scrubbing all the data that the death toll was less than 1% but the suicide rate spiked by 30%, increased our total debt by 20% and fueled a massive recession in 5 years; how will future generations feel about the decisions we made?
- dkdk8283 6y agoIn my area there are no lockdowns and businesses are thriving. Very thankful to be where I’m at.
- jvm_ 6y agoThis song captures that feeling well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8isMSg0Tpe4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8isMSg0Tpe4
- itsphilos 6y agoThis reminds me of that website which provides several soundscapes, from the ambiance of a café to a walk in the woods. Its at https://mynoise.net https://mynoise.net
- stakkur 6y agoThere should be an Irish version of this, called 'I Miss My Pub'. There would be sliders for trad music, yelling, cursing, arguing, laughter, glass breaking, and people falling.