Not so funny real life Capt Trips thread

duff · Post by **duff** » Mon Mar 16, 2020 3:03 pm

Sabo wrote: ↑Mon Mar 16, 2020 2:28 pm
DSafetyGuy wrote: ↑Mon Mar 16, 2020 2:20 pm
BSF21 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 16, 2020 11:08 am Guys seriously how do you deal with this feeling of dread? I'm not so much scared of getting sick as I am of the way other people are going to act if this gets bad. All the medical professionals in my life are really highly concerned and it's starting to get me really churned up. I'm sure I'm overreacting but this is rough.
Yesterday afternoon/evening was bad for me. I got two calls from family members in quick succession to wish my Happy Birthday. That got the anxiety going.

I'm booked to fly out in the morning and I'll be home for dinner, but Pandora's box of what could happen really opens. Should I run upstairs, shower, and put on clean clothes as soon as I get in the door? Then what? Stay away from everyone? Hug my kids?

I generally have a reasonable idea of what to do in life, which is what makes this so bad. Feeling helpless is no good.
Leave the house.

Go find Marko Stunt.

Give him the biggest hug you can possibly give.

You'll feel better for it.

Leave that poor child out of it. You are just a mean, bitter old man.

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Mon Mar 16, 2020 3:10 pm

Fuck, old people are so susceptible to misinformation. If they read it on the internet, it must be true. If it comes in an email from a friend, they will blindly accept it and forward it on.

Exhibit A is this excerpt from an email I received from my mother:

Taiwan experts provide a simple self-check that we can do every morning. Take a deep breath and hold your breath for more than 10 seconds. If you complete it successfully without coughing, without discomfort, stiffness or tightness, etc., it proves there is no Fibrosis in the lungs, basically indicates no infection. In critical time, please self-check every morning in an environment with clean air.

Serious excellent advice by Japanese doctors treating COVID-19 cases: Everyone should ensure your mouth & throat are moist, never dry. Take a few sips of water every 15 minutes at least. Why? Even if the virus gets into your mouth, drinking water or other liquids will wash them down through your throat and into the stomach. Once there, your stomach acid will kill all the virus. If you don't drink enough water more regularly, the virus can enter your windpipe and into the lungs. That's very dangerous.

So, I sent this link to my mother to convince her not to listen to her misinformed friends:
https://www.cnet.com/news/6-coronavirus ... t-checked/

Post by **Sabo** » Mon Mar 16, 2020 3:10 pm

duff wrote: ↑Mon Mar 16, 2020 3:03 pm
Sabo wrote: ↑Mon Mar 16, 2020 2:28 pm
DSafetyGuy wrote: ↑Mon Mar 16, 2020 2:20 pm
BSF21 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 16, 2020 11:08 am Guys seriously how do you deal with this feeling of dread? I'm not so much scared of getting sick as I am of the way other people are going to act if this gets bad. All the medical professionals in my life are really highly concerned and it's starting to get me really churned up. I'm sure I'm overreacting but this is rough.
Yesterday afternoon/evening was bad for me. I got two calls from family members in quick succession to wish my Happy Birthday. That got the anxiety going.

I'm booked to fly out in the morning and I'll be home for dinner, but Pandora's box of what could happen really opens. Should I run upstairs, shower, and put on clean clothes as soon as I get in the door? Then what? Stay away from everyone? Hug my kids?

I generally have a reasonable idea of what to do in life, which is what makes this so bad. Feeling helpless is no good.
Leave the house.

Go find Marko Stunt.

Give him the biggest hug you can possibly give.

You'll feel better for it.
Leave that poor child out of it. You are just a mean, bitter old man.

DSG will decline my recommendation anyway. Hell, I offered to buy him a Marko Stunt t-shirt and he declined that gift.

duff · Post by **duff** » Mon Mar 16, 2020 3:12 pm

Sabo wrote: ↑Mon Mar 16, 2020 3:10 pm
duff wrote: ↑Mon Mar 16, 2020 3:03 pm
Sabo wrote: ↑Mon Mar 16, 2020 2:28 pm
DSafetyGuy wrote: ↑Mon Mar 16, 2020 2:20 pm
BSF21 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 16, 2020 11:08 am Guys seriously how do you deal with this feeling of dread? I'm not so much scared of getting sick as I am of the way other people are going to act if this gets bad. All the medical professionals in my life are really highly concerned and it's starting to get me really churned up. I'm sure I'm overreacting but this is rough.
Yesterday afternoon/evening was bad for me. I got two calls from family members in quick succession to wish my Happy Birthday. That got the anxiety going.

I'm booked to fly out in the morning and I'll be home for dinner, but Pandora's box of what could happen really opens. Should I run upstairs, shower, and put on clean clothes as soon as I get in the door? Then what? Stay away from everyone? Hug my kids?

I generally have a reasonable idea of what to do in life, which is what makes this so bad. Feeling helpless is no good.
Leave the house.

Go find Marko Stunt.

Give him the biggest hug you can possibly give.

You'll feel better for it.
Leave that poor child out of it. You are just a mean, bitter old man.
DSG will decline my recommendation anyway. Hell, I offered to buy him a Marko Stunt t-shirt and he declined that gift.

Send that shit my way. I love the little dude and his dinosaur.

tennbengal · Post by **tennbengal** » Mon Mar 16, 2020 3:13 pm

Maybe trump can try NOT manipulating the markets for the next little bit?

HaulCitgo · Post by **HaulCitgo** » Mon Mar 16, 2020 3:31 pm

Just realized I'm gonna be able to move wills.

Post by **brian** » Mon Mar 16, 2020 3:36 pm

tennbengal wrote: ↑Mon Mar 16, 2020 3:13 pm Maybe trump can try NOT manipulating the markets for the next little bit?

Backfired today, huh? He's such a simple creature. It would endearing if he were anything other than the leader of the free world.

Post by **brian** » Mon Mar 16, 2020 3:36 pm

elflaco3 · Post by **elflaco3** » Mon Mar 16, 2020 3:38 pm

to top it off -- got diagnosed yesterday afternoon with shingles. and the hives are on the back of my head. been a lousy day.

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Mon Mar 16, 2020 4:18 pm

We have a nice, small independent grocery store walking distance from my home. Before all this, our pattern was to make small trips there, as needed.

Progression of coronavirus reaction in three visits to the store:

Friday: Pick up a few things. No problem

Saturday: Half the shelves are picked clean. Not much selection at all.

Today: Walk in - See checkout lines that go on forever. Turn around and leave.

Post by **brian** » Mon Mar 16, 2020 5:47 pm

Thinking about having some weed delivered while I can be sure the dispensaries will remain open. Fortunately I did/do have a pretty good stock, but there's no telling where all this goes, so better safe than sorry.

P.D.X. · Post by **P.D.X.** » Mon Mar 16, 2020 6:10 pm

Rec can't deliver here but they should just fucking allow it. Minimize the reasons for ppl being out.

DSafetyGuy · Post by **DSafetyGuy** » Mon Mar 16, 2020 6:28 pm

duff wrote: ↑Mon Mar 16, 2020 3:12 pm
Sabo wrote: ↑Mon Mar 16, 2020 3:10 pm
duff wrote: ↑Mon Mar 16, 2020 3:03 pm
Sabo wrote: ↑Mon Mar 16, 2020 2:28 pm
Leave the house.

Go find Marko Stunt.

Give him the biggest hug you can possibly give.

You'll feel better for it.
Leave that poor child out of it. You are just a mean, bitter old man.
DSG will decline my recommendation anyway. Hell, I offered to buy him a Marko Stunt t-shirt and he declined that gift.
Send that shit my way. I love the little dude and his dinosaur.

I would only hug him if I was positive for the virus.

DSafetyGuy · Post by **DSafetyGuy** » Mon Mar 16, 2020 6:30 pm

Also, flying out tonight.

When the six-county "shelter in place" order for the Bay Area was reported earlier today (not confirmed, just leaked), my boss decided everyone was leaving tonight. So, that's good.

rass · Post by **rass** » Mon Mar 16, 2020 8:02 pm

Good luck man

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Mon Mar 16, 2020 8:26 pm

Yeah, good luck, dsafe.

P.D.X. · Post by **P.D.X.** » Mon Mar 16, 2020 8:56 pm

CO bars & restos now closed for 30 days. That's gonna crush so many people here if there's no unemployment relief.

DaveInSeattle · Post by **DaveInSeattle** » Mon Mar 16, 2020 11:47 pm

I sent an email to my Agile coach saying that 3 hour Zoom meetings are counter-productive.

Rush2112 · Post by **Rush2112** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 1:13 am

P.D.X. wrote: ↑Mon Mar 16, 2020 8:56 pm CO bars & restos now closed for 30 days. That's gonna crush so many people here if there's no unemployment relief.

They need to do the take out route for bars too or those places are fucked. Especially the places in Boulder/Denver that are paper-thin margins because of the high rent. Most taprooms/breweries are doing takeout, but that's still gonna really fuck with places. New place in Boulder that supposed to be great opened like last weekend, can't imagine how much business they're losing on top of having all the costs sunk into opening a new brewery.

Rush2112 · Post by **Rush2112** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 1:18 am

Our kid's daycare has been open (it's private) and we've been dropping them off. Only a few kids there maybe 40% of normal. But with my sort of working from home (I've had to go to campus two days of the four because of Luddites) and my wife's office is still open. Tonight we got a warning that they may have had a case at the school, we won't know for 2-5 days. Scary fucking times, and yet people here are still spouting this shit:

I try not to live under a rock, however, I also try my best to pay attention to my surroundings. Our Government is under attack from within. If you don’t believe so, then you probably also believe that this is the first time the Corona virus has been identified.

Think about what’s transpired over the last few months. The government has presented every possible demographic including a self proclaimed socialist as a democratic candidate because they fear something they can’t control.

The impeachment hoax failed and immediately Pelosi vowed to exhaust efforts in overthrowing Trump. If you currently can see this post then until last week you were living in the most thriving economy this nation has ever seen in my lifetime. Only due to the fact that the person in control couldn’t be bought.

If you think for one second this “pandemic” is not media driven, and controlled by the radical people in powerful places....well...go back to sleep under the rock you crawled out from. Oh, and go ahead at this point and click on my name and follow the steps to unfriend or unfollow me as well because you really aren’t going to like this.

This thing has killed less people in the same time frame than cigarettes, cancer, drunk driving, domestic violence, car crashes, cross stitching accidents (j/k on the last one but probably close), stabbings, overdoses, and please don’t get me started on abortion.

Wake up!!! This is what the beginning of socialism looks like! They are controlling what you buy...bc it’s what you think you need, where you go...bc it’s where they tell you not to go, and how to live...bc you now fear the very existence of anything outside of your home and control.

They are leading with fear. Causing you to panic like sheep.

They are crashing the stock market to run on a failing economy, because it’s all they have left. What is this saying to all of the countries that have opposed us for decades but, couldn’t defeat us?
It’s saying...biological war fare will make these idiots glued to CNN and every other liberal news source panic and run for the hills.

You don’t need hand sanitizer, toilet paper, and Lysol. You need common sense, a sense of direction, faith, a will to fight, and of course guns!

Square Rob · Post by **Square Rob** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 5:30 am

Jesustittyfuckingchrist.

Really weird for me lately. Son, who is immune compromised (has to take immune suppressing drugs to control his acute Chron’s) is currently living with us. He’s hard headed and was having trouble accepting the risk until yesterday. At 22, even moderately at risk kids feel invincible and all his friends are home from college. He’s agreed to a multi week home quarantine and did not have a temperature yesterday.

Wife left her last job a couple of weeks ago, with my support. Not a problem with me as the sole breadwinner as I’m well compensated enough to stay more than level at our lifestyle and we have a pretty good nest egg. She’s nearly finished with buying a small company (~80 employees), and a market crash wouldn’t be bad timing for her to do so. Business is already well established and base of revenue is solid at 80% of current, regardless of wider economy.

But still. What if something happens to me? We are trying to practice social distancing at work, but it’s fucking hard in a loud manufacturing environment to communicate and maintain distance. I also work with a bunch of people with a similar mentality to the guy in Rush’s quote. I’ve been converting as many people as possible to a more pragmatic mindset but it’s still pervasive. In my role, I have to keep going in until they tell us all to go home. Even after that, I will be one of the last ones out the gate, and will definitely be one of the ones on the very short list to cycle through safety watches even if there’s a 100% lockdown quarantine. My production centers are impossible to 100% idle without causing close to $80m in damage and delaying full restart of production by 5 months. So furnaces have to stay hot and someone has to check equipment to make sure nothing is about to explode.

Our facilities in France are already considering doing a full idle. One of our major plants is in an outbreak hotspot. I keep waiting for the corporate decision to come, but nothing so far. Major car and manufacturing companies in France started shutting down yesterday and sending workers home. Macron mobilized military to better enforce quarantines. US is only a week or so behind them on the infection curves, so we can only assume that is coming for us.

So I keep working, terrified that I will be a vector that brings this shit home and gets the boy sick. But I don’t have a choice but to keep showing up. As a senior manager my work requires me to be there. And if our production workers start self quarantining, which they are allowed to do by company policy, myself and my immediate reports will be stuck trying to operate the facility with a skeleton crew, waiting for senior corporate team to make a call to idle. So far we haven’t even been directed to develop any contingency plans for our production centers (but you can bet your ass I’ve already done so). It’s only going to take a handful of production employees to decide they want to stay home before it becomes a stampede and there is no enforcement method to prevent that. Not saying there should be, note. If someone feels they might have been exposed they sure as shit should be staying home. We have 1250 employees on site, with another 250 contractors and truckers that come on site daily. That’s a lot of people with wide infection vectors.

I guess I’m saying in a long winded way that this sucks. Lots of people are having to make really difficult decisions. We need good strong leadership in so many different spots it’s terrifying. Humanity is ill suited to this kind of attack. Economic factors are weighing heavily on the wrong side of the protection scale. That impacts at each level from world leaders to business executive level down through to middle managers like me.

It’s a really scary time. I manage by just focusing on the day at hand, but have been working 12-15hr days for two weeks straight now. That level of work and stress isn’t great for my own general health, and what happens now if I get sick from something else? It would be a shitty time to have a heart attack or to get injured at work.

Square Rob · Post by **Square Rob** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 5:30 am

Sorry that’s a wall of text.

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 5:56 am

Gooooooood morninnnnnng slight feeeeeeever!

tennbengal · Post by **tennbengal** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 6:12 am

Ryan wrote: ↑Tue Mar 17, 2020 5:56 am Gooooooood morninnnnnng slight feeeeeeever!

Turns out Jen's issue was the bronchitis. Five days of anti-biotics helped. Her fever ranged from 99.7 - 100.4 but never above. Could be a ton of things.

rass · Post by **rass** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 7:17 am

Square Rob wrote: ↑Tue Mar 17, 2020 5:30 am Sorry that’s a wall of text.

You were your own worst enemy because that second to last paragraph is so good (almost as good as the first line).

rass · Post by **rass** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 7:18 am

Ryan wrote: ↑Tue Mar 17, 2020 5:56 am Gooooooood morninnnnnng slight feeeeeeever!

shiiit?

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 7:26 am

rass wrote: ↑Tue Mar 17, 2020 7:18 am
Ryan wrote: ↑Tue Mar 17, 2020 5:56 am Gooooooood morninnnnnng slight feeeeeeever!
shiiit?

Was 100.5 when I woke up. Now 98.7. Guess I'll go to work. There, I'm at work.

rass · Post by **rass** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 7:38 am

One of the OEM coordinators for the city where my wife works (A) left for a vacation in the DR this week and (B) couldn't keep himself from posting #beachtherapy photos on FB.

degenerasian · Post by **degenerasian** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 8:20 am

rass wrote: ↑Tue Mar 17, 2020 7:38 am One of the OEM coordinators for the city where my wife works (A) left for a vacation in the DR this week and (B) couldn't keep himself from posting #beachtherapy photos on FB.

Should be fired. I cant deal with this shit.

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 8:49 am

I got a text from my recently divorced friend yesterday asking if my older two boys could watch his kid if their school closes. I tell him we're socially isolating and as much as I'd like to help, it's a no.

A few texts later he revealed that the reason we were asked is that his ex-wife is contemplating taking advantage of cheap flights and spending a week or so in Hawaii.

tennbengal · Post by **tennbengal** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 9:06 am

govmentchedda wrote: ↑Tue Mar 17, 2020 8:49 am I got a text from my recently divorced friend yesterday asking if my older two boys could watch his kid if their school closes. I tell him we're socially isolating and as much as I'd like to help, it's a no.

A few texts later he revealed that the reason we were asked is that his ex-wife is contemplating taking advantage of cheap flights and spending a week or so in Hawaii.

Just...what the hell, man.

L-Jam3 · Post by **L-Jam3** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 9:08 am

I'm reading this as the ex-wife has physical custody of the kids, she saw some cheap flights to Hawaii, and is passing them off to the ex-husband to watch but he can't wfh, so he needs help watching them. Is that right? That's a real prick move by her,

Nonlinear FC · Post by **Nonlinear FC** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 9:41 am

degenerasian wrote: ↑Tue Mar 17, 2020 8:20 am
rass wrote: ↑Tue Mar 17, 2020 7:38 am One of the OEM coordinators for the city where my wife works (A) left for a vacation in the DR this week and (B) couldn't keep himself from posting #beachtherapy photos on FB.
Should be fired. I cant deal with this shit.

Agreed.

degenerasian · Post by **degenerasian** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 9:59 am

govmentchedda wrote: ↑Tue Mar 17, 2020 8:49 am I got a text from my recently divorced friend yesterday asking if my older two boys could watch his kid if their school closes. I tell him we're socially isolating and as much as I'd like to help, it's a no.

A few texts later he revealed that the reason we were asked is that his ex-wife is contemplating taking advantage of cheap flights and spending a week or so in Hawaii.

This is why self-isolation doesn't work because people are assholes. It has to be forced.

Here, when the province closed all schools on Sunday afternoon, the city had to immediately close everything a few hours later. Or else thousands of kids would be running around the city on Monday morning.

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 10:08 am

L-Jam3 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 17, 2020 9:08 am I'm reading this as the ex-wife has physical custody of the kids, she saw some cheap flights to Hawaii, and is passing them off to the ex-husband to watch but he can't wfh, so he needs help watching them. Is that right? That's a real prick move by her,

Yep.

The Sybian · Post by **The Sybian** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 10:10 am

Anyone catch Trump's response to a simple question from a reporter asking what the corona test was like? The asshat clearly didn't take the test, and has no idea how it is administered. I couldn't find a video that I could embed, but holy fuck is this man incapable of answering the simplest questions. He is so incurious that he doesn't even fucking now what the test is! How are we trusting this fucker to make big decisions on handling a pandemic response when he clearly can't comprehend the most simple basic facts?

https://www.mediaite.com/news/watch-tru ... irus-test/

DaveInSeattle · Post by **DaveInSeattle** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 10:25 am

Sending my GF off to work this morning at Evergreen (as a Sigur Ros song was playing on KEXP in the background) felt like I was in a WWI movie and I was at a train station waving good bye as my loved one was heading off to the front...

degenerasian · Post by **degenerasian** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 10:29 am

The Sybian wrote: ↑Tue Mar 17, 2020 10:10 am Anyone catch Trump's response to a simple question from a reporter asking what the corona test was like? The asshat clearly didn't take the test, and has no idea how it is administered. I couldn't find a video that I could embed, but holy fuck is this man incapable of answering the simplest questions. He is so incurious that he doesn't even fucking now what the test is! How are we trusting this fucker to make big decisions on handling a pandemic response when he clearly can't comprehend the most simple basic facts?

https://www.mediaite.com/news/watch-tru ... irus-test/

Wow, even I know how the test works. CBC sent a reporter to do it.

P.D.X. · Post by **P.D.X.** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 11:08 am

Rush2112 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 17, 2020 1:13 am
P.D.X. wrote: ↑Mon Mar 16, 2020 8:56 pm CO bars & restos now closed for 30 days. That's gonna crush so many people here if there's no unemployment relief.
They need to do the take out route for bars too or those places are fucked. Especially the places in Boulder/Denver that are paper-thin margins because of the high rent. Most taprooms/breweries are doing takeout, but that's still gonna really fuck with places. New place in Boulder that supposed to be great opened like last weekend, can't imagine how much business they're losing on top of having all the costs sunk into opening a new brewery.

Uhl's?

Walked down Pearl this morning. Laughing Goat and Boxcar were doing orders from the door. Mountain Sun kitchen staff was in.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 11:12 am

Elkview wv on the trip north to tonight’s bivouac in Scranton. Opted to add a few minutes to avoid nyc in the morning.