Normal Life!

My partner and I work in hospitals, my parents are growing oldish and my sister is pregnant. Australia hasn't enforced isolation yet (just strongly encouraged it) but we (partner and I) have started only going to work, home or supermarket.

Here are how we're planning to tackle isolation:

Still setting up social meetings, just doing them via video call. example: cook same meal as my sister, friend or mum then sit down with tripods on each end and eat dinner together while chatting.

Set up a book club with my best friend, to read and then sit down one night to analyse a favourite book.

Build an old and comforting movie list with my partner, bake a yummy treat and watch something like Studio Ghibli films together.

Unfortunately, by the time proper isolation comes around partner and I will still be working and our families will be home, bored. but ah well, we can tire them out with stories about our days!

I don't know. I pretty much never speak to strangers unless I have to and friends are nonexistent for me.
This isolation does not bother me at all. For my sims, it's pretty much the same.
Socializing only if the whim strikes.

It different for everyone, of course. Just a different opinion.

And the best thing is, sims' toilet paper never gets empty!

I live in the USA in a rural area. I work in small city of about 12k. I have an essential job and can still work. It's risky but yeah it's work and home for me. Everything is closed. I am glad that my Sims can still go out and about though. I wish they had more venues like movie theaters and casinos. lol

I have to set up a Roll 20 version of my face to face game.

I believe this and having my kid home for lunch rather than at uni are the only adjustments I've actually needed to make.

Oh, and I can't go to the craft store... but it's not like I actually need more crafting stuff. (I really don't. I'm considering offering to make home sewn masks for the whole block just to put a dent in my fabric stash...)

I've been practicing for this social isolation all my life. Not much has changed for me besides everybody has gone completely bonkers buying all the food and TP. :D

"Huiiie_07;c-17432689" wrote:
And the best thing is, sims' toilet paper never gets empty!

I've actually been thinking of making a retail store in the Sims 4 that sells mostly TP, lol!

Has so far been little chage as I tend to a semi-hermit life anyway. I have one of those jobs where working from home is not viable so still go in, though it's odd seeing traffic down to 1950s levels and no one in the office but me. The thought has occurred that we might not have an election. Conventions are more than 10 people in a confined space and voting locations can be crowded places.

"Sharonia;c-17432720" wrote:
I've been practicing for this social isolation all my life. Not much has changed for me besides everybody has gone completely bonkers buying all the food and TP. :D

I've done much camping and traveling around the world, out of cities. As well as wilderness 'survival' camping. Alot of the times on my own. I tell ya, being 300 miles away from any town or village in northern Canada, the last thing on my mind was toilet-paper, heh heh! To be honest, the shock of being isolated and alone was the hardest to deal with. By the way, I highly recommend NOT using pine-cones as a substitute for TP. :#

No offense intended to anyone, this is just humour. I got a good laugh! ;) :D
Couldn't resist sharing it here. Cheers!
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