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What's the first thing you'll do once this is all over?

I doubt I'll be going anywhere for a while (I'm still paranoid), but I think I'll go to the bookstore first and buy all the books.

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Mimi wrote:
14 May 2020, 8:30am
What's the first thing you'll do once this is all over?

I doubt I'll be going anywhere for a while (I'm still paranoid), but I think I'll go to the bookstore first and buy all the books.
Hopefully see a good live show.

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Go to my local and have a few drinks with friends

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Probably start breathing on people in public with impunity.
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Probably nothing interesting. Especially since I don’t think this will suddenly be over in any meaningful sense. Just a lot of gradually going back to things with varying degrees of confidence.
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Go to a movie.
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JennyB wrote:
14 May 2020, 10:14am
Go to a movie.
That.

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Wolter wrote:
14 May 2020, 10:10am
Probably nothing interesting. Especially since I don’t think this will suddenly be over in any meaningful sense. Just a lot of gradually going back to things with varying degrees of confidence.
Chatting about this with my therapist a few weeks ago, he suspects that collectively we will develop a mostly functional form of agoraphobia. This will be made possible by our Internet lives, which offer enough of a substitute for in-person interaction that we won't be forced to confront this anxiety the way they had to in 1920. But given the option of doing a lot of stuff online and at home, the stuff outdoors and amidst people will be the thing we weigh the possibilities. That all seems a quite reasonable prediction.
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
14 May 2020, 10:32am
Wolter wrote:
14 May 2020, 10:10am
Probably nothing interesting. Especially since I don’t think this will suddenly be over in any meaningful sense. Just a lot of gradually going back to things with varying degrees of confidence.
Chatting about this with my therapist a few weeks ago, he suspects that collectively we will develop a mostly functional form of agoraphobia. This will be made possible by our Internet lives, which offer enough of a substitute for in-person interaction that we won't be forced to confront this anxiety the way they had to in 1920. But given the option of doing a lot of stuff online and at home, the stuff outdoors and amidst people will be the thing we weigh the possibilities. That all seems a quite reasonable prediction.
I'd be in a worse place without the interaction I have with people here for sure but I do also crave some physical or face to face interaction with other people who I haven't seen in a while.

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I think we're still a year or two off from being able to do this, but I miss going to see live music. I wanna go see a concert.
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My honest answer is going to sound so mundane, but once I feel safe enough, it will be great to take my older son somewhere for lunch and to play in public while my younger one naps.
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Dropping the kid off with her grandparents and having alone time with the wife.
*edit* - that sounds like sex. Maybe, but i wasn't thinking anything in particular. Go to a movie, get out of town, watch a movie at home, I don't know. Just some time to breathe would be nice.
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Go to my regular pub if it still exists.
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On the other side of things, I'm gonna miss not having to come up with excuses not to go out. :meh:
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
14 May 2020, 1:22pm
On the other side of things, I'm gonna miss not having to come up with excuses not to go out. :meh:
Indeed, I'm a little anxious about me still being tentative and friends putting on the peer pressure. I'm not convinced that once things are a bit more normal, people aren't going to just slide back into their usual patterns and let this whole thing fade from memory. Masks are going to be important in the future for mitigating future issues, but I'm concerned that this time isn't really going to drive that home to a lot of people.
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