03-21-2020, 06:12 PM
I will need to do my banking through an ATM for another month or so... so I can expect to step out of the car and spray the pin pad with a disinfectant before using the pad. Does that sound like a good idea?
People out of work during the social lockdown can do housecleaning as never before, do some hobbies that they abandoned, plant gardens, and paint their houses. People with good work habits will find things to do. You might try honing some skill that might be useful on another job if the one that you had vanishes. Good work habits and a reasonable competence can result in some achievements that might redeem a nasty, unpleasant, and potentially ominous time.
If you can't go to the library you can go to Project Gutenberg and download a seemingly-endless array of public-domain literature. You can get much great music off YouTube. Maybe this time will be least-troubling for those most inner-directed (in this quarantine, Boomers may have an advantage.
The quarantine will be over, and we will be back to our old ways -- mostly. Remember that the political order and our economic system have serious faults, including the extreme polarization of public life.
People out of work during the social lockdown can do housecleaning as never before, do some hobbies that they abandoned, plant gardens, and paint their houses. People with good work habits will find things to do. You might try honing some skill that might be useful on another job if the one that you had vanishes. Good work habits and a reasonable competence can result in some achievements that might redeem a nasty, unpleasant, and potentially ominous time.
If you can't go to the library you can go to Project Gutenberg and download a seemingly-endless array of public-domain literature. You can get much great music off YouTube. Maybe this time will be least-troubling for those most inner-directed (in this quarantine, Boomers may have an advantage.
The quarantine will be over, and we will be back to our old ways -- mostly. Remember that the political order and our economic system have serious faults, including the extreme polarization of public life.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.
