I have a great idea! Yes, I know that I have often have great ideas, but many people will actually agree with this one. Being isolated has "forced" me to clean out my garage, my utility room, and do other tasks that I have been putting off. From your posts, I know that I am not the only one.
When this whole ordeal is over, we should have a National Isolation Week every spring in which we spend a week at home doing what we are doing now (except thinking about Covid 19).
There are several reasons:
- The week can be to commemorate and remember all of the people who died in the pandemic.
- It can be a week of quiet and introspective celebration for those of us who made it through.
- It can serve a reminder not to elect grossly ineffective leaders who only have corporate America and their own interests at heart.
- We can clean our garages again.
- If people want to thank god, they will be forced to do so in their own homes.
Essential workers can work in shifts OR there can be two weeks, the second being for those who worked the first week.
In addition, the government will send everyone who qualifies $1200. The qualifications include not being opposed to socialist programs.
We need to start a grass roots movement for this.
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A good idea to create a remembrance, but pushes against the base psychology in epidemics/pandemics. By the time they end they have cost everyone personally. we all lose friends and loved ones. Thus when it is over, people seek to place it behind them, just to function. An entire society grieving at the same time produces a social stigma to bringing up the "bad times", you don't want to make your fellow survivors grieve more.
That is why we did not have a Holocaust museum when I was a boy. The survivors did not talk about that, it hurt too much. Only after decades did the youth beg them to talk, to not let their horrid experience be forgotten lest we repeat it.
Then they grit their teeth, survivor by survivor, and tell the tale.
I expect a memorial, a statue of nurses or some such. A holiday remembrance will be much harder to sell, a LOT of people will want to forget in order to carry on.
Davesnothere
Level 7
Mar 30, 2020
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@Gwendolyn2018 thinking of that I NOW envision a movement among management against such an idea . . .lol
Could we call in "National Pause week". As its purpose is to slow down, to really think ahead and confirm that we know it will end.
Mcflewster
Level 8
Mar 30, 2020
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@Gwendolyn2018 It will please the dog-owners too. And lots of male head of households - as many like to be called when it is said out loud if you are from Deep South.
I have one addition to your Incandescently brilliant post and one distractor .
ADDITION
In the week there would be a SCIENCE Rebooting Festival for science upgrading at every age 2yrs- 102yrs . Please ask me for possible activities- but not YET at ALL ages
ONE THAT MAY NOT WORK
No 5 . Why are we still thinking in terms of FORCING? Too many have been forced into religion. let us NOT pick up their bad habits. What beliefs you have are possibly the result of quiet contemplation, example, free thinking, logic and reason. Why use anything else on a human being which religionists at the last count still were . Just think what the world would be like if no one forced any one to do anything? . Heaven on .......?
Mcflewster
Level 8
Mar 30, 2020
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@Gwendolyn2018 Thank you for your permission to do science. The reason that they do not stay at home is because they do not understand the science -that is the root cause. PLEASE encourage them to stay at home. More testing is actually more important but which ever works the fastest is the best. Please look my Science teachers interest group on this site - but not cor Corona science tho just how to get into science. You can do science by yourself without a teacher. All teachers are going to become social workers.
@Gwendolyn2018 It is true that all science is Maths but IMO this really indicates that scientists and mathematicians cannot rest until everything is in the form of an equations . These require symbols for the variables and obviously numbers at some point. I managed to enjoy science with an average maths mark at High school. I enjoyed the chasing practical conclusions and sometimes getting my hands dirty plus the safe working aspect which alerts me to the dangers of living nowadays. I did NOT like going into talking about Probabilities but Hey, we can only do that with the corona virus so it is here to stay. Simulating situations as a model is very exciting and that is going to beat the virus.
@Gwendolyn2018 I find that very interesting. Logic to me differs in different context. However you did demonstrate the kind of stuctured thinking that science develops.
@Gwendolyn2018 AS an english teacheryou could help me in my research (every detail and fault exposed)into the words used to describe science. It is not operative yet but you could help in the next topic of critical thinking about it. See Science teachers any age in the interstate's group. What do yoiu understand by the word science? My theory is that if you do not understand a word you go into the words that lead you up to it.
@Gwendolyn2018 Sorry If I disturbed you by messaging.
This had me in tears
[theguardian.com]
Paul_Clamberer
Level 7
Mar 30, 2020
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If his studying gravitational waves hasn‘t taught him discretion, maybe putting magnets into his nose has.
I have Better idea, get the fuck out of this country before it's too late! I am moving to my second home in Menorca, Spain permanently.
fishline79
Level 7
Mar 29, 2020
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@Gwendolyn2018 You move to "Hole in the Wall". I'll move to Spain.
@Cavalloscuro I tried. But I took it too literally. I didn't know "hole in the wall" was an actual place. They had to hire carpenters to get me out.
I'm NOT cleaning my garage and you can't make me.
PondartIncbendog
Level 8
Mar 29, 2020
5
@Donotbelieve HEY! You are a thumbist! So, thumbism is ok here? What kind of world,,,,,,,,oh fuck it.
@Donotbelieve And that another thing! How many of you use your thumbs to press the thumbs button? HUH?,,,,,,,,,,YOU DON'T!! You use your finger on your right paw! And don't you dare tell me your a leftie.
@Donotbelieve OK,,,,,ok,,,,,,,IF, you two are going to gang up on me,,,,,,I'll,,,,,,,,I'll,,,,PHTTTT!!!,,,,,,grow some.
@Donotbelieve Suck on your thumb? Nope. That's just perverted.
@Gwendolyn2018 Great. I just bark at mine. You humans are so primitive.
@Gwendolyn2018 I don't know where it's been...
@PondartIncbendog What happens when a virus gets in the garage then and you want to drive to hospital with no othere ambulances about and you have always kept your car in THAT garage, also your son who last drove the car is ill, incapacitated, with a cough and temperature? Please never say never.
@Mcflewster What happens if dragon appear out of nowhere.
First; I don't keep my truck in the garage, so that is moot.
I don't have a son.
What if? What if
@Donotbelieve What are you? A sophist or something?
It's a lovely thought, and I fully support it. In my dreams I imagine a citizenry who would actually stand up for their own benefit, instead of voting against their own self-interest (particularly if it means someone else benefits). Ah, dreams! 
Lauren
Level 8
Mar 29, 2020
6
Don't hold your breath. All a politician has to do is invoke jebus and that crowd would put a noose around their own necks.
Starting in 2021, dreams will be taxed.
@Gwendolyn2018 Not for long. Dreams will be taxed in the future. I'm sure they'll figure out a way.
Next year, the government will be taxing dreams at thirty dollars a hour for Rem sleep.
@Gwendolyn2018 Now you've got me craving brownies....and I'm out of cocoa.
@Gwendolyn2018 if you were to get it fixed, would it mercilessly ply you with brownies?
@Gwendolyn2018 microwave makes meals warm
@Gwendolyn2018 you're the first oven boycotter I have discovered silly ....I do bake goods in winter to co-generate heat that is moving out window glass faster than the furnace.....does Santa come down your chimney ??
@Gwendolyn2018 ....depends upon house construction but my sister had a wood burning stove pipe run up her fireplace for a more efficient heating the big family room....cost next to nothing we installef it ourselves
@Gwendolyn2018 then Santa couldn't come down her chimney because the stove pipe ran upt the brick chimney
In Alaska our state government has been sending every citizen, regardless of age, a dividend check every October that has averaged over $1000 and one year it was $2500. It does not promote isolation. It is much the same as Black Friday at all of our shopping venues - and some smart people avoid the big box stores around this time - yet the parking lots are packed with cars lined up to get in... I am afraid that this policy will not continue after this episode as our state spending will far outpace any revenues.
FrostyJim
Level 8
Mar 29, 2020
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WilliamCharles
Level 8
Mar 29, 2020
2
@Gwendolyn2018 more discouragement away from kisses to build a dream on....Louis Armstrong brushed his teeth
@Gwendolyn2018 maybe you'll learn the Weavers song SWEETER THAN WINE ....Ronnie Gilbert is still alive I think but Pete Seeger was a lifelong romantic guy with Hoji ? I forgot how to spell her name but like Yoko Ono the business genius in those marriages of love and harmony
@Gwendolyn2018 the virus is EXCUSE enough to say no to love.... my platonic believer gal pal who chose me on our dating site for love but back tracked to celebacy after all our dinners and massages is now worried she caught the virus 3 days ago.....not likely and she refuses to be tested ....many of her symptoms are chronic from attempted murderers who also robbed her days after she asked me to leave our bed.....her skull was cracked her eye & socket swollen from the attack ..... I can't help thinking people our age should protect one another.... all part of saying yes to love..... but no means no so she gets her privacy and pain without MR fixit healer there to shoot intruders take her temperature or make her tea
@Gwendolyn2018 good for you ...happy for you ....love is the gift of self.....some body saying I love you not mom or brother SHOULD BE told wtf .... here is an image that works for centuries : COURTING BOARDS.....A sideways swing board curving into the middle.. in S Carolina on porches out of the hot sun a beau comes a courtin with daddy's permission and "her" invitation..... 12 feet apart seated upon each end they swing back and forth chatting and enjoying the scents and sights of love.... if they slide to the middle and kiss daddy may have stopped watching for a beer or some moonshine and they can blame the courting board for the accidental lips collisions
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