where i live people are being asked to self isolate, businesses are closed, etc. and yet: parents are still giving their kids money to run to the store where i work for snacks.
i’m wishing we could put up pictures of people’s lungs like they do for cigarettes in some countries.
Where I am, because schools are closed parents are taking their kids with them everywhere, which suddenly means stores have groups of three where there used to be one. It makes maintaining a good distance while traversing the aisles that much harder.
The supermarket nearest me is installing plexigrass cashier shields on Monday.
@anon15383236 has a point. Could you remove the link (transparently)? It has some educational effect to read this shit, but I fear some people might be confused, as it looks slick on a first scroll. I don’t want this garbage to spread.
Oh, well, I’ve always liked Nine Worlds! I missed last year, but that’s the first year I’ve missed. This year, there have been some fantastic panels – the Hidden Histories panel was a favourite. But probably my highlight was playing four hours of The Good Society . It’s a Jane Austen based tabletop RPG. And it was really intense.
Who were you?
I played the heiress, the daughter of the lady of the manor. You know, beset by suitors, having to choose the one that was least awful … and you can’t choose nobody.
Oh my God. What happened?
Well, the misconception is that in Austen novels nothing happens. But imagine if you watched somebody trying to defuse a bomb, and you didn’t know what they were doing …