Links: comforting re: COVID-19

[sonia]

"Please join me in feeling one million times better about all my failed seder plans this week." by Dr_Ophelian quoting QuipThe . Chag sameach. May the Angel of Death pass over all of our houses.

Pathogen Resistance xkcd comic by Randall Munroe. (Did anyone figure out the following comic, Collector's Edition? I moused around a little but felt like I missed the point.)

Why You Should Ignore All That Coronavirus-Inspired Productivity Pressure by Aisha S. Ahmad.

In closing, I give thanks to those colleagues and friends who hail from hard places, who know this feeling of disaster in their bones. In the past few days, we have laughed about our childhood wounds and have exulted in our tribulations. We have given thanks and tapped into the resilience of our old wartime wounds. Thank you for being warriors of the light and for sharing your wisdom born of suffering. Because calamity is a great teacher.

How to Spend the Time by Dahlia Lithwick."It is better to be grateful than to pronounce yourself lucky, and other lessons from quarantine."

Self-Care and Social Distance by Mary Maxfield Brave at Scarleteen.

I am a human with more than average experience surviving while socially isolated and/ or homebound. As such, I wanted to share some tips for thinking through how you might best care for yourself in this new era of social distance.

gaudior is posting a series on How to Handle a Plague that is reassuring and informative. The latest as of today is 10) Ask for what you need, don't tell people what they're doing wrong.. They're all worth reading. rydra_wong posted a partial table of contents.

Notes from the Abyss…. 3/18/20 – 3/29/20 by Amy Bennett, LMT. I'm really enjoying my massage therapist's meditations on suspending her practice.

Red Cross Form to sign up for Plasma Donations from Recovered COVID-19 Patients

You just cannot stop musicians from making music together. True Life Trio used Acapella App to individually record their parts for Spring Song, arranged by Juliana Graffagna.

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Mmmm, I am comforted!

[jesse_the_k]

The Kosher Matzah thread made me tear up, and smile. It was so good that I tracked it down on Facebook. I'm leaving it here for posterity (because the Twitter thread uses a screenshot):

Louis.Evans on Facebook said

Point: if you're not eating matzah next week, you're not keeping kosher for passover.

Counterpoint: actually, the principle of pikuach nefesh, the saving of a life, means that it's acceptable to eat chametz this week to avoid going to the grocery store.

SUPERPOINT: ACTUALLY, anything that you scrounge together from odds and ends while huddled fearfully in your home, consumed by the dread knowledge that remaining indoors is the only way to prevent plague from wreaking death in your community, is about a MILLION TIMES MORE KOSHER FOR PASSOVER THAN ANYTHING YOU'VE EVER EATEN IN YOUR WHOLE-ASS LIFE.

Stay safe, friends. Chag sameach. May the Angel of Death pass over all of our houses.

Re: Mmmm, I am comforted!

[sonia]

Thanks for the transcript!

Evidently I'm replying individually

[jesse_the_k]

I think the collector's edition may be referring back to the million dollar homepage as well as zoombombing and the fact we're all caught in the web right now?

It's a game! There's a popup when you load (you may not have seen it due to adblock) and you collect stuff for your "backpack."

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2288:_Collector%27s_Edition

Re: Evidently I'm replying individually

[sonia]

Oh cool! I saw the backpack, but it's still not clear to me how to put things in it. Probably ad-blocker related, like you said. I hadn't seen the million dollar homepage before either. I like understanding what's going on.

Glad you liked the other posts, too.

[jesse_the_k]

gaudior is hitting it out of the park! I've learned something essential from every one of their posts.

Finally (you sigh)

[jesse_the_k]

The True Life Trio is perfect.