| I don’t think paranoia means what I think you think it means. Like most people on the site, I am well adapted to the conditions forced upon us by this pandemic. What I can’t do is go travelling, what with the airports being closed to tourists, the hotels being closed, and the airlines cancelling any flights other than repatriations, etc. — and I can’t go to local museums, because they’re closed. I can’t go to a pub to hang out with local furries, because the pub is closed. I probably can’t go to the large furry convention that was going to happen later this year in my city, because the hotel it would be held in is currently being used as a pop-up hospital. Even if I got around the airport problems by learning to fly (I have the money and time for lessons but not for a plane), I couldn’t go to any other cons instead because their hotels have also been converted into pop-up hospitals. I can go for walks, but I can’t go to any parks, because they’re closed. I’m also not comfortable with selling my old home in the UK and buying a new one in Berlin — but that’s not because of risk to me, it’s because of the situation in the UK. It’s not really a “hobby”, but it is something I had planned to do and have put off because of this. I’m not into music or dancing or spectator sports, but those are big parts of most people’s lives — now impossible because their venues are closed. The only thing I can do is walking (on sidewalks), passive a/v entertainment, MOOCs/etc, and video games. Suits me, but if it didn’t, there wouldn’t be anything I could do about it. |