Fuck If I Know

they are going to be CLOSED OVER THE HOLIDAYS and so will the DOCTORS WHO SIGN YOUR PRESCRIPTIONS.

US Helplines:

Depression Hotline: 1-630-482-9696

Suicide Hotline: 1-800-784-8433

LifeLine: 1-800-273-8255

Trevor Project: 1-866-488-7386

Sexuality Support: 1-800-246-7743

Eating Disorders Hotline: 1-847-831-3438

Rape and Sexual Assault: 1-800-656-4673

Grief Support: 1-650-321-5272

Runaway: 1-800-843-5200, 1-800-843-5678, 1-800-621-4000

Exhale: After Abortion Hotline/Pro-Voice: 1-866-4394253

Child Abuse: 1-800-422-4453

UK Helplines:

Samaritans (for any problem): 08457909090 e-mail [email protected]

Childline (for anyone under 18 with any problem): 08001111

Mind infoline (mental health information): 0300 123 3393 e-mail: [email protected]

Mind legal advice (for people who need mental-health related legal advice): 0300 466 6463 [email protected]

b-eat eating disorder support: 0845 634 14 14 (only open Mon-Fri 10.30am-8.30pm and Saturday 1pm-4.30pm) e-mail: [email protected]

b-eat youthline (for under 25’s with eating disorders): 08456347650 (open Mon-Fri 4.30pm - 8.30pm, Saturday 1pm-4.30pm)

Cruse Bereavement Care: 08444779400 e-mail: [email protected]

Frank (information and advice on drugs): 0800776600

Drinkline: 0800 9178282

Rape Crisis England & Wales: 0808 802 9999 1(open 2 - 2.30pm 7 - 9.30pm) e-mail [email protected]

Rape Crisis Scotland: 08088 01 03 02 every day, 6pm to midnight

India Self Harm Hotline: 00 08001006614

India Suicide Helpline: 022-27546669

Kids Help Phone (Canada): 1-800-668-6868

FREE 24/7 suicide hotlines:

Argentina: 54-0223-493-0430

Australia: 13-11-14

Austria: 01-713-3374

Barbados: 429-9999

Belgium: 106

Botswana: 391-1270

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China: 852-2382-0000

(Hong Kong: 2389-2222)

Costa Rica: 606-253-5439

Croatia: 01-4833-888

Cyprus: 357-77-77-72-67

Czech Republic: 222-580-697, 476-701-908

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Egypt: 762-1602

Estonia: 6-558-088

Finland: 040-5032199

France: 01-45-39-4000

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Greece: 1018

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Holland: 0900-0767

Honduras: 504-237-3623

Hungary: 06-80-820-111

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(Singapore: 1-800-221-4444)

Mexico: 525-510-2550

Netherlands: 0900-0767

New Zealand: 4-473-9739

New Guinea: 675-326-0011

Nicaragua: 505-268-6171

Norway: 47-815-33-300

Philippines: 02-896-9191

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Portugal: 239-72-10-10

Russia: 8-20-222-82-10

Spain: 91-459-00-50

South Africa: 0861-322-322

South Korea: 2-715-8600

Sweden: 031-711-2400

Switzerland: 143

Taiwan: 0800-788-995

Thailand: 02-249-9977

Trinidad and Tobago: 868-645-2800

Ukraine: 0487-327715

Casa Batlló, one of Antoni Gaudí’s masterpieces

Art nouveau necklace “Fuchsias” by Georges Fouquet, 1905. Visible in Petit Palais, Paris. [OC] [1232x1848]

“nothing to see here.” - The Field Museum of Natural History

OPTION 2:

People are not eating more than they did a month ago. They’re eating more of it at home and less at work/restaurants.They’re cooking for kids, who used to eat at school. 

People are not using more toilet paper now; they just want to stock up in case they’re told “don’t leave your house for a week.” Once they decide they have enough in stock, they’ll go back to their previous buying habits. 

These are all distribution adjustments; they’ll settle down. 

There are a few people being assholes, but there’s a lot more who are suddenly trying to feed a family of 4+ without fast food as the simple option if they’re overwhelmed. There are now mid-to-high income couples who almost always ate at restaurants because it’s easier and much faster than buying supplies and doing complete dinners. There are families with 5 kids who used to eat lunch at school, whose breakfast used to be toaster/microwave something grabbed on the way out the door. There are “three dude roommates” who used to buy prepackaged everything, but one of them’s laid off and another’s on half hours, so they’re going to cook from scratch and have no idea what they’re doing.

We ARE actually using more hand sanitizer and more paper masks. For those, we need to increase production, not just change where they existing supplies are going.

But most of the stores-being-stripped issues are “people who are stuck at home and know that they might not be able to go out tomorrow.” 

So many posts about how guilty they'll feel if they don't use this time to finally catch up on back-work, clean their house, organize, work, work, work.

Y'all need to remember that we're experiencing a global crisis, and to some degree, I think arguably a global trauma.

Right now, everything is uncertain, the future is vague, and the world is scary. We are all already under so much unprecedented pressure. Pressure to provide for ourselves and others, to stay safe, to keep others safe, etc. etc.

The LAST thing we need is to set ultimatums for our schedules and punish ourselves for not writing a damn book or reorganzing the garage all with the weight of Global Pandemic Crisis weighing on our minds and lives.

The truth is, no one needs to get a damn thing done during all of this except what concerns public health and services.

You don't need to clean the attic. You don't need to reply to all of your emails.

If doing those things makes you feel better, great! Have fun! But if they've become a tool for guilting yourself into being miserably "productive" in these trying times,

Specifically people experiencing financial crisis at this time will be experiencing this need to be "productive," because without any ability to control our financial situation, we are desperate to control something else, to prove to ourselves and others that were still "worthy" despite our inability to provide financially.

So many students and teachers saying this is useless because they still have to work. Yet I've seen plenty of students hating themselves for doing poorly in a class "even though it's easier now."

The point of this post was to remind everyone that this sudden event that has rearranged all of our lives so dramatically has not made anything easier. It's made things scarier, uncertain, and therefore, more difficult than ever.

So I say one again to everyone: give yourself a break.

start with “hey, sorry it took me so long to reply” and go from there!