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Date: 2020-11-02 10:04 pm (UTC)Do you want the generic reasonable person that is you, or the generic reasonable person who the journalists would have pointed at prior to the pandemic and said "yes that person is basically sensible and reasonable"? Because the latter in fact did not predict the pandemic, even if they probably should have. (Also: *waves little flag of expecting us to have a famine that takes everyone even worse sometime this century*)
> My first thought, before I cut that thought process off with "I should ask first if they actually want me contemplating workarounds for this", was sort of a mix of these two: asking a flatmate who was going to go out anyway if they could pick up some groceries on your behalf. Combining these strategies would compensate for *some* of the downsides of each, though possibly not enough of them.
Asking a flatmate is a good solution for small supplies of common goods, but I'm good enough at planning and improvisation culinarly speaking that I worry less about this (and also I can and do irregular trips to the local cheap-but-mediocre supermarket, which this is above and beyond; getting *good* groceries is one half me eating at a higher standard than the student infrastructure really wants from me and one half the fact that I find buying cool and weird stuff and having a lot of ... not quite control, but adjacent, over what I eat, is enjoyable and good and one trips makes not only that day good but also much of the following days as well as I eat whatever stuff I bought. The shopping I am considering here is in the domain of recreation (or at least quality of life) and not survival.)
> Bear in mind that the Google panopticon will tell you which times of day tend to be busier than others
Oooh good idea (and yeah, I'm moderately nocturnal, currently buffered by class zoom calls at midday - it's of somewhat limited utility by the stores I want to shop at mostly closing at 7-8pm). The google maps coverage of the oslo train system is mediocre for stuff like geography, so I doubt it'll have the best data, but I will check it out.
(they only have the physical location of the platforms recorded on thier system, even though in the city where the lines are underground, the exits are in four or five different locations spread over as much as a 3-block radius. The first night I was in oslo, I walked for 15 minutes with all my suitcases only to discover there was a station exit 30 meters from my hotel)
> Also the fit of the mask can make a large difference in danger levels
I was aware! The cloth mask my mother sent me has awful fit (allowed to sit as it would like, there is a straight-up 1cm gap along the entire top edge), I've been thinking about how I can sew up the edges so that it sits right and will get on it eventually; until then I've kept up with using disposables that fit much better.
(Addendum of "Oh I should do the actual checking before I post this" - it looks like the source station has a small activity dip around lunchtime but is otherwise "very active in the morning, somewhat active the rest of the time, curving down in the evenings" and the destination shows an almost perfect bell curve of activity centered around about 1pm, so optimizing avoiding traffic is just "travel as late in the day as possible" I think. Optimally on a Tuesday or a Wednesday - Sunday has less but there aren't any shops open on a Sunday, that's why there's no traffic then. Then the webpage crashed.)