Getting groceries during COVID-19 maps perfectly onto Joseph Campbell's Hero's Journey

[thomdunn]

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/04/15/getting-groceries-during-covid.html

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[Robertor]

I love cooking and used to like shopping for groceries. Now it’s a major ordeal. The worst part is when you get home and have to decontaminate everything. I wash every orange, every banana, every leaf of lettuce, every can, discard all the unwashable packaging and repack everything. It’s fucking nuts and annoying. I hate it now. I do a more thorough version of this process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=5&v=sjDuwc9KBps&feature=emb_logo

[anon27554371]

It’s always been The Hero’s Journey.

I think the cart wins every time.
It’ll probably outlast most of us here.

[CanadianBeaver]

I am altering the deal, prey I don’t alter it any further

[capnjimbo]

Do whatever you feel is right to keep yourself and others safe, but that video’s been taken to task for being well-intentioned but either misleading or incorrect (washing veges in detergent in particular can actually make you sick). A food microbiologist, an infectious diseases expert, and a virologist gave their advice on the topic here, and it’s less full-on.
Nothing wrong with choosing to err on the side of caution tho.

[Frederick_Hagemeiste]

I was afraid in Challenges and Temptations I’d see: “Drink the hand sanitizer? It’s so close, and the liquor store is so far away.” *

**Also, don’t drink the hand sanitizer. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/24/well/live/dont-drink-the-hand-sanitizer.html

[FGD135]

[dontpanicbobby]

Dang, I MISS GLOVE AND BOOTS!

[FGD135]

They are back, sort of. Not as prolific as they were before whatever went wrong with YouTube, but a couple of new videos every couple of weeks.