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Mar. 5th, 2020 11:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brin_bellway[cw: illness, death]
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>>If you should be stuck in your home, unable to leave because you are under quarantine for two or more weeks, what will you do with this gift of time? Are there things you've never had the time to do and always wanted to do? Are any of them things you can do at home? Are there things you could look forward to having the time to do?<<
I feel like these questions are probably meant for people who spend less time at home than I do. Currently I don't leave my house at all on about half of days: that's just how my schedule works out.
I study. I play video games: sometimes while doing this I listen to podcasts, listen to music I already know I like, or sift through songs I *might* like and decide what I think of them. I add to my WordPress archives, scan in paper books, rip CD-ROMs, download websites. I read. I clean. All of these are things I would *love* to do more of, with the arguable exception of the first (and there might not be much point in studying right then anyway, if I won't be able to go to the exam centre for a while). All of these are things I can do while cooped up in my bedroom under intra-household quarantine (if I first move my laptop in there), though the cleaning and book/CD-ROM scanning will be limited.
(And there are *several* plausible scenarios in which I end up in intra-household quarantine. Even if we time the household lockdown correctly such that I don't bring COVID-19 home from work, I have the strongest immune system in the household (especially if you count behavioural immune system), and as something of a jack-of-many-trades my household duties are relatively easy to take over if I am out of commission. Therefore, if *somebody* needs to break quarantine (to fetch supplies, perhaps), *I* am the best choice, and *I* am the one who will need to be kept under observation for two weeks while we check if I caught anything on my expedition, because you do *not* fuck around with a ~16% chance of killing at least one parent.
(yes, I am aware that the official by-demographic death figures are very likely overstated, because from what we can tell quite a few people shrug off COVID-19 without ever even finding out they were sick unless you happen to test them at the right time†, but still))
There *are* some board games that we rarely play because they're too involved to play and eat dinner at the same time, and we rarely play board games outside of a dinner context. Personally I can take or leave board games, but I suspect it would help keep Mom's spirits up. Brother would probably hate it, but perhaps a three-player game.
I'll have to think about suitable forms of exercise, too: I *did* spend a couple weeks this autumn with me and my treadmill on opposite sides of an intra-household quarantine (it's in my parents' bedroom; Mom had a flu), and that was bad on both a physical and psychological level. Strength and Flex looks interesting, and there's always jumping jacks.
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†That is to say, it's a ~16% chance of at least one death *conditional on them both showing symptoms*, and that this is *not* the same thing as conditional on them both contracting it.
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siderea)>>If you should be stuck in your home, unable to leave because you are under quarantine for two or more weeks, what will you do with this gift of time? Are there things you've never had the time to do and always wanted to do? Are any of them things you can do at home? Are there things you could look forward to having the time to do?<<
I feel like these questions are probably meant for people who spend less time at home than I do. Currently I don't leave my house at all on about half of days: that's just how my schedule works out.
I study. I play video games: sometimes while doing this I listen to podcasts, listen to music I already know I like, or sift through songs I *might* like and decide what I think of them. I add to my WordPress archives, scan in paper books, rip CD-ROMs, download websites. I read. I clean. All of these are things I would *love* to do more of, with the arguable exception of the first (and there might not be much point in studying right then anyway, if I won't be able to go to the exam centre for a while). All of these are things I can do while cooped up in my bedroom under intra-household quarantine (if I first move my laptop in there), though the cleaning and book/CD-ROM scanning will be limited.
(And there are *several* plausible scenarios in which I end up in intra-household quarantine. Even if we time the household lockdown correctly such that I don't bring COVID-19 home from work, I have the strongest immune system in the household (especially if you count behavioural immune system), and as something of a jack-of-many-trades my household duties are relatively easy to take over if I am out of commission. Therefore, if *somebody* needs to break quarantine (to fetch supplies, perhaps), *I* am the best choice, and *I* am the one who will need to be kept under observation for two weeks while we check if I caught anything on my expedition, because you do *not* fuck around with a ~16% chance of killing at least one parent.
(yes, I am aware that the official by-demographic death figures are very likely overstated, because from what we can tell quite a few people shrug off COVID-19 without ever even finding out they were sick unless you happen to test them at the right time†, but still))
There *are* some board games that we rarely play because they're too involved to play and eat dinner at the same time, and we rarely play board games outside of a dinner context. Personally I can take or leave board games, but I suspect it would help keep Mom's spirits up. Brother would probably hate it, but perhaps a three-player game.
I'll have to think about suitable forms of exercise, too: I *did* spend a couple weeks this autumn with me and my treadmill on opposite sides of an intra-household quarantine (it's in my parents' bedroom; Mom had a flu), and that was bad on both a physical and psychological level. Strength and Flex looks interesting, and there's always jumping jacks.
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†That is to say, it's a ~16% chance of at least one death *conditional on them both showing symptoms*, and that this is *not* the same thing as conditional on them both contracting it.
