How Has Covid Affected You?

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If you have or can get a piece of rope and a nearby tree branch you’re golden on pulling motions.

If you know a couple of knots like butterflies or the hitch knots, you’re even more goldener.

Yeah, some of this jerkiness that I’ve seen and heard of concerns me. Technically, I’m in the high risk category with heart disease (CHD).

Basic planning and preparation are a good response. Bad reaction= punching people that get too close. Good response= having or obtaining a decent stock of root vegetables, dried and canned goods.

Reactions and responses are more than just semantics.

Allegheny county Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh).

Things seem to just be getting started here. Between low population density and good sequestration compliance let’s hope it doesn’t go too crazy.

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CMU Just got a confirmed case yesterday

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I saw that on the local news. I’d assume you’re safe and sound at this point?

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Open a door, wrap a towel around both sides of the knob, stand perpendicular to the door so that you’re holding both ends of the towel and lean back in a half squat position. From there you can do one arm rows using the towel. You’d be surprised how much leverage you can get.

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I don’t understand how this post didn’t get more likes.

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Maybe I’m being dense here, but why does that mean you can’t get a pull up bar?

Also: how locked down are you? Most places I’ve ever lived, there’s easy access to parks with pull up bars or the like. Barring a military curfew, I’ll always be able to find plenty of places to do pull ups.

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Yes. Pull ups are my main exercise. Now that the gym is closed, I have found a few parks nearby with the classic monkey bars. Also, yesterday I did some pull ups on the backside of some youth baseball park bleachers.

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This. There are doorway pullup bars on Amazon that literally hold themselves up on their own. No need to do anything beside “plugging” them (not sure it’s the best word for it).

Last time I checked they were selling for around € 30.

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Also, to get back to the topic of how covid has affected me, or my family as you’ll see…

Yesterday my aunt passed away. Not because of the virus, so what does it mean that the virus affected me in this?

Well, my aunt (57) had been mentally ill throughout her whole life, and now had been living for more than 20 years in a facility where they take care of ill or old people. Like a nursing home but equipped to deal with mentally ill people as well.

She had done heroin for a lot of years in her youth, after her illness (she was bipolar) first manifested in her teens, so her body was already damaged. What did her in, though, was smoking throughout all of her life. Her lungs were fucked.

She died because of lung failure.

So back to the nursing facility: since the outbreak of the virus, that place has been locked down. Nobody can get in or out outside of the staff. On top of that, when she started feeling bad yesterday they called the hospital, and the response was that they couldn’t take her in because it wouldn’t have made things any better due to how overloaded the Healthcare system already is and how fragile she was.

The people at the facility weren’t equipped to deal with this, and it arguably wouldn’t have saved her regardless because her lungs were fucked anyway. She got close to dying in that same exact way a lot of times.

Nobody allowed in and out, though, also meant that none of my family was able to be close to her as she passed away. My mother is broken into pieces. She’s the one that took care of her the most during the last 20 years and they were so close. She’s desperate for not having been able to hold her hand one last time.

And let’s not even get started on my grandmother. I don’t know if there can be a greater pain in life than losing a daughter.

So yeah, this is how the virus has affected my family. It has made a tragedy marginally worse.

I’m okay, because due to her condition I had barely gotten to know her in my childhood. I have very few memories of her so I don’t feel the way I felt, for example, then I lost my grandpa a few years ago. But seeing my mom the way she is right now is heartbreaking.

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Could be totally wrong but I don’t think this is a symptom. I have one as well but feel otherwise fine. I’d have no clue either, because S.D. is the only state that did not prepare and does not have any testing equipment :rofl:.

Anyway, hope it’s nothing. Stay healthy!

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My sincere condolences Samul to you and your family. RIP.

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While I understand the Covid-19 affects everyone, it’s impact is especially felt by men because we’re losing 1 dollar for every 79 cents a woman is losing.

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Sorry for you and your families loss man.

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Sorry to hear this. Take care.

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Gyms in Australia have just been closed.

I’m furious. I live in a regional town with 0 cases. My gym is small with only about 10 regular users who use the weight room ( the masses do the aerobic classes).

All because a bunch of hipsters crowded Bondi beach the other day while the rest of the country were trying to practice “social distancing”.

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I just died over the porn hub comments haha

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Has this whole ordeal given anyone pause over their profession?

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I’m laid off my rescue job and my truck driving job.

Is anyone hoarding gas/FUEL of any kind?

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I’m sorry to hear that. I meant, questioning their chosen profession. But again, sorry.

The context in which the thought was had is pretty well-embodied here,

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I work in food retail. So yes, but not in the way you’re thinking.

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