Very fair reaction. I should note that among the people in my house, I have done the fewest things by a fair margin, so this is not exactly representative – although I am also not the most locked-down person I know, by a long shot. Of the people in my house, most have traveled in the past year, including internationally, but day to day we mostly just… see each other, work (with people in our bubble) and sometimes walk around. Our bubble expanded at one point, though it’s still only ~12 people, since we lost a lot of housemates over the course of the year.
My mom and sister have been under a similar level of lockdown this whole time, though that makes more sense since my mom is in her 60s and also they had no friends in the first place and are really happy just chilling together with their bird.
(Honestly many of us have a not-that-mentally-okay year, but I wanted to steer away from that topic in this post because it’s A Lot.)
One person moved to a cabin (pretty far from things but close enough for grocery delivery) and had no interaction whatsoever except with their partner, who until recently had no interaction with anyone at all either. Another person wears a positive-pressure suit for every interaction, including in some parts of their house.
I should note that among the people in my house, I have done the fewest things by a fair margin, so this is not exactly representative – although I am also not the most locked-down person I know, by a long shot.
Do you have a quantitative sense of this? My rough guess (tho I’ve chatted with people a lot less because of the pandemic, so my sense might be quite off here) is that out of “200” bay area rationalists, you were in the bottom 10-20 in terms of microCOVID spend, but probably not bottom 2 or only bottom 40.
[Tho thinking about this more, I think my metric isn’t great. What a mistake looks like here is “not spending 1 microCOVID to do something worth more than one microCOVID’s worth of fun”, which is different from total integrated spend.]
Very fair reaction. I should note that among the people in my house, I have done the fewest things by a fair margin, so this is not exactly representative – although I am also not the most locked-down person I know, by a long shot. Of the people in my house, most have traveled in the past year, including internationally, but day to day we mostly just… see each other, work (with people in our bubble) and sometimes walk around. Our bubble expanded at one point, though it’s still only ~12 people, since we lost a lot of housemates over the course of the year.
My mom and sister have been under a similar level of lockdown this whole time, though that makes more sense since my mom is in her 60s and also they had no friends in the first place and are really happy just chilling together with their bird.
(Honestly many of us have a not-that-mentally-okay year, but I wanted to steer away from that topic in this post because it’s A Lot.)
Yeah IDEK man. Shit’s cray.
I’ve got to ask, what is the most locked-down person you know doing? It’s hard to imagine being more locked down than you are!
One person moved to a cabin (pretty far from things but close enough for grocery delivery) and had no interaction whatsoever except with their partner, who until recently had no interaction with anyone at all either. Another person wears a positive-pressure suit for every interaction, including in some parts of their house.
Do you have a quantitative sense of this? My rough guess (tho I’ve chatted with people a lot less because of the pandemic, so my sense might be quite off here) is that out of “200” bay area rationalists, you were in the bottom 10-20 in terms of microCOVID spend, but probably not bottom 2 or only bottom 40.
[Tho thinking about this more, I think my metric isn’t great. What a mistake looks like here is “not spending 1 microCOVID to do something worth more than one microCOVID’s worth of fun”, which is different from total integrated spend.]