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1. comrade1234 · 1789830140 · focus · HN ↗

   Before Covid I got my German B1 certificate. I was diligently going to German-speaking meetup twice a week.

   One of the meetups had a bunch of googlers in it regularly. One of them was a loud gregarious Italian from the north. He was telling me a story about cleaning fish and chopping their heads off with a machete and how he cut the end of his finger off and had it reattached. He seemed nice but a little inept and lacking caution.

   Covid was starting. In the newspapers it was reported that Zurich had its first case of Covid. They were cautious to not say who it was - no clues at all in the paper. But a friend at Google forwarded me an internal email that said no one at Google had it yet other than someone in the Zurich office who had just been in northern Italy.

   I stopped going to the meetups. I really should start again but not sure what's going to happen next.

   1. timr · 1789834492 · focus · HN ↗

      Well, now that everyone has had it several times, including you, it’s probably safe to go to a language meetup.

      1. litmus-pit-git · 1789886010 · focus · HN ↗

         There's something that happened to some people with this virus and around this virus. It's not even the DNA/internal changes. It's how to world suddenly shifted around all of us and some people just changed in a way that later they couldn't make any sense of it. Some people's age band shifted drastically and it felt like, and yeah it sounds silly, that I should be refunded those years. I didn't spend them, they just stayed where they were but everything else and everyone else changed. I am not sure PC is going through that but it's not merely the fear of the virus (at least in my case that's zero). No wonder a lot of introverts thrived in the pandemic and a whole lot of them turned their lives around for the better :)

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