Daily Check-In

[mecurtin]

This is your check-in post for today. The poll will be open from midnight Universal or Zulu Time (8pm Eastern Time on Monday) to midnight (8pm Tuesday Eastern Time).

Poll #23778 Daily poll

This poll is closed.
Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 76

How are you doing?

I am OK
64 (84.2%)

I am not OK, but don't need help right now
12 (15.8%)

I could use some help
0 (0.0%)

How many other humans live with you?

I am living single
30 (41.1%)

One other person
22 (30.1%)

More than one other person
21 (28.8%)

Please, talk about how things are going for you in the comments, ask for advice or help if you need it, or just discuss whatever you feel like.

Comments

[ratcreature]

I ventured out today for the first time in a week to get some fresh groceries. I was wearing my homemade cloth facemask and felt a bit weird, because almost nobody else in the supermarket was wearing a mask, even though it wasn't easy to keep at a distance in the isles despite the supermarket limiting the number of people who could enter at the same time.

On the upside I managed not to fidget with the mask and the fogging of my glasses was manageable. Though climbing the five flights of stairs to my apartment is even more unpleasant when breathing through a mask. Or maybe I'm getting out of shape because I'm only going up once or twice a week for a while now, rather than once or twice daily at least...

Otherwise I'm feeling quite lonely because most of my contact now that all sorts of offline activities have been cancelled is to my siblings, but it's always me reaching out to them rather than them texting me, so I'm starting to feel like I'm bothering them.

[smilingslightly]

If you can incorporate a wire across the bridge of your nose and upper cheeks somehow, it really does help with the glasses fogging, I find.

I hear you on the always reaching out. I'm very introverted but have a small circle of people I enjoy seeing on a regular basis. Now we can't do that informal in-person thing and they have pre-established facebook networks which they're all now living in. I am gratefully not on FB - nvm the politics of it, the vicious gossip of the local scene is enough! - but then I don't hear back when I text unless (I feel like) I nag, and then it's a very surface exchange anyway. Hopefully we'll all get better at striking a balance and finding creative ways to strengthen connections but, yeah, very awkward at the moment.

[ratcreature]

Yeah, I'm not on FB either.

I've seen the wire advice, but didn't have any suitable wire on hand. The wire bits that come with freezer bags for closing that I did try to insert weren't sturdy enough to make much of a difference. I guess I will have to dig through the odds and ends of my toolbox and assorted crafting supplies for a more comfortable DIY mask, considering this is bound to go on for a while.

[goddess47]

Friend of mine suggested a bit of tape at the top of the mask (on the nose) to hold it closer to the face and keep it down from the glasses. Some masking tape should be fine (as well as come off relatively easily).

If you have any, 'wash' your glasses in shaving cream; that's supposed to reduce the fogging also.

Hang in there!

[ratcreature]

Hmm, I have a roll of medical tape that sticks to both cloth and skin sufficiently without irritating my skin, so that might be worth a try. Though I would need to be more careful taking it off then, I think, to follow these instructions you see for limiting cross contamination during mask removal.