The end of the world chronicles
Mar. 16th, 2020 08:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yannisThe weather today was awful, the temperature was something like 10C, the hurricane continues and it was mostly cloudy.
I decided to take a walk around the central Athens to see what's going on.
So, all cafes and restaurants are now closed, although some continue to operate, but only as delivery/take away.
So whole streets and neighbourhoods are completely empty, like Adrian's street, Ψυρρή etc. Some cafes are covered with barricade tape, which you can see today as often as masks or gloves.
Supermarkets only let in a certain number of customers simultaneously, so people are waiting in lines outside.
Some other stores practice the same shit, like "not more than two customers at a time".
Certain stores are already closed, some until the 28th of March, some until the 30th, while others "until further notice".
But many continue operating, especially at Athinas and Ermou streets, you can hardly find there any closed stores, although it seems those opened lack any customers.
Street performers, musicians, artists etc dissapeared.
But beggars, tramps, drug addicts, other representatives of society's scum... Ugh. These motherfuckers surely experince hard times right now. A few weeks ago they did nothing, and kind people were generous enough to throw a few coins in their plastic cups from time to time, or at least they could resort to searching food in trash cans. But now there are not many people walking through the streets of Athens, and those few who are, surely will not rush to stinking caughing pieces of shit who roam around whole day long, collecting all possible infections. As for the trash cans, I guess now people won't waste much food, when they have to wait in line to get into supermarket. So these pieces of shit seem really desperate now, and are begging more aggressively and actively. Fuck them all, hope they all die of coronavirus.
And I guess pickpockets also have hard times, since they need crowds to do their "job", but right now Athens experience real deficite of crowds, and especially on transport, where you get at least two unoccupied seats for each passenger. And these passengers try to keep maximum possible distance between themselves.
The behaviour of the passengers has also changed visibly, by the way. It seems nobody wants to pay for public transport - even before coronavirus you could hardly run into transport controller (I met them about three times during all my life here, always on central stations, namely Syntagma and Omonoia), but now, I guess, you have zero chances of meeting them - who would want to risk their health or even life on such a job? So nobody pays for tickets, naturally. Why would they, really. They are proud Greeks, not fucking Germans.
Also I've seen a brawl nearly broke out in the trolley I've been riding, a white guy stated that a nigger told him "fuck you" and wanted to punch him in the face, but I had to get off right at that moment, so I don't know how all this shit ended.
But yeah, people are becoming more aggressive and nervous, it's a fact.
But all in all it was a great experince, this walk around Athens, I only wish there were less clouds.
Sometimes you want to take a photo, but the place you want to take it in is full of people, and in Athens there are many places which are always full of people.
And today I could see all these places completely empty. Well, not really completely empty, there were some people here and there, but Adrian's street with all the restaurants closed, and Ψυρρή without crowds of people, and Syntagma with just three-four tourists... Wow. Just wow. This is a completely different experince, you don't see such things often. Well, in fact, I've never seen these places in such conditions before, at least during daytime, when the sun is shining with its full brightness.
Fucking wow.
And all this shit will continue till the end of March. Or till the end of April. Or till the end of May. Nobody knows right now, the highest officials are talking about "a few difficult months we'll have to live through".
There will be no nuclear blasts, or cluster bombs, and not a single enemy soldier will step on our soil, but the economy will continue to crumble, and we will have many more black Mondays (today we had the third one in a row), and nobody will be able to help, and any type of protest will be futile.
Wow, wow, wow. Some people thought it's great to experince crisises or turning points of human history or even the end of the world on their own skin. Well, let's say now they will certainly have this great opportunity. And they will have something to tell their kids. If they will have them, of course.
I decided to take a walk around the central Athens to see what's going on.
So, all cafes and restaurants are now closed, although some continue to operate, but only as delivery/take away.
So whole streets and neighbourhoods are completely empty, like Adrian's street, Ψυρρή etc. Some cafes are covered with barricade tape, which you can see today as often as masks or gloves.
Supermarkets only let in a certain number of customers simultaneously, so people are waiting in lines outside.
Some other stores practice the same shit, like "not more than two customers at a time".
Certain stores are already closed, some until the 28th of March, some until the 30th, while others "until further notice".
But many continue operating, especially at Athinas and Ermou streets, you can hardly find there any closed stores, although it seems those opened lack any customers.
Street performers, musicians, artists etc dissapeared.
But beggars, tramps, drug addicts, other representatives of society's scum... Ugh. These motherfuckers surely experince hard times right now. A few weeks ago they did nothing, and kind people were generous enough to throw a few coins in their plastic cups from time to time, or at least they could resort to searching food in trash cans. But now there are not many people walking through the streets of Athens, and those few who are, surely will not rush to stinking caughing pieces of shit who roam around whole day long, collecting all possible infections. As for the trash cans, I guess now people won't waste much food, when they have to wait in line to get into supermarket. So these pieces of shit seem really desperate now, and are begging more aggressively and actively. Fuck them all, hope they all die of coronavirus.
And I guess pickpockets also have hard times, since they need crowds to do their "job", but right now Athens experience real deficite of crowds, and especially on transport, where you get at least two unoccupied seats for each passenger. And these passengers try to keep maximum possible distance between themselves.
The behaviour of the passengers has also changed visibly, by the way. It seems nobody wants to pay for public transport - even before coronavirus you could hardly run into transport controller (I met them about three times during all my life here, always on central stations, namely Syntagma and Omonoia), but now, I guess, you have zero chances of meeting them - who would want to risk their health or even life on such a job? So nobody pays for tickets, naturally. Why would they, really. They are proud Greeks, not fucking Germans.
Also I've seen a brawl nearly broke out in the trolley I've been riding, a white guy stated that a nigger told him "fuck you" and wanted to punch him in the face, but I had to get off right at that moment, so I don't know how all this shit ended.
But yeah, people are becoming more aggressive and nervous, it's a fact.
But all in all it was a great experince, this walk around Athens, I only wish there were less clouds.
Sometimes you want to take a photo, but the place you want to take it in is full of people, and in Athens there are many places which are always full of people.
And today I could see all these places completely empty. Well, not really completely empty, there were some people here and there, but Adrian's street with all the restaurants closed, and Ψυρρή without crowds of people, and Syntagma with just three-four tourists... Wow. Just wow. This is a completely different experince, you don't see such things often. Well, in fact, I've never seen these places in such conditions before, at least during daytime, when the sun is shining with its full brightness.
Fucking wow.
And all this shit will continue till the end of March. Or till the end of April. Or till the end of May. Nobody knows right now, the highest officials are talking about "a few difficult months we'll have to live through".
There will be no nuclear blasts, or cluster bombs, and not a single enemy soldier will step on our soil, but the economy will continue to crumble, and we will have many more black Mondays (today we had the third one in a row), and nobody will be able to help, and any type of protest will be futile.
Wow, wow, wow. Some people thought it's great to experince crisises or turning points of human history or even the end of the world on their own skin. Well, let's say now they will certainly have this great opportunity. And they will have something to tell their kids. If they will have them, of course.
