I feel like I’m being tested or trained on my ability to function in isolation. Perhaps, for deployment to the space station or a mission to Mars. Total Isolation, just me and my dog, Bode, although, I’m considering renaming him, Wilson.
Perhaps he is practicing for weightlessness.
Wilson and I spend the the day together. He sleeps for most of it, but if I move, he follows. He is always by my side. Wilson and I venture outside occasionally. After all nature calls.
I keep wondering what this isolation is doing to our mental health. I joke with my friends, that I’ve been training for this, my entire life. The truth is, everyone needs interaction with others. I have never been more appreciative, of social media. Imagine experiencing this event without internet and social media. I can pretty much guarantee, if I had no internet, I would inevitably become Jack Torrance, Jack Nicholson’s character in “The Shining”.
All jokes aside, I keep, flashing to every Stephen King novel, I’ve ever read. I’m surprised that I didn’t jump right to “The Stand.” If you’ve read it, you know exactly what I mean. If you haven’t read it, trust me, now is not the time.
The numbers keep going up. On Monday it was around 8,000 fatalities, worldwide. Today is Friday and the number is 25,000 and over 500,000 confirmed cases. I keep calculating the percentage of infected into the amount that die from CoVid. The United States is right around 1% while around the world the rate is closer to 5.5%. I keep saying to myself that these are false percentages, because, there are countless people that are sick and not being tested. So in my mind, the rate should actually be lower. That could be good news. I dont know, if or when I will get infected, and that bothers me. Will my symptom be mild or severe. The unknowns of this virus are what scares me the most.
I never had knowledge of someone I knew dying from the flu. With Corona, I already have connections to several, who became lifethreatingly ill, or have past. These next two weeks will be eye-opening to many who thought this would never affect them, or that it would all just go away.
With the recent update to social distancing, specifically to mask guidelines, I thought my graphic needed a mask.
Once I looked at my design, something jumped out at me. My current design didn’t accurately reflect the social perimeter. I also thought the eyes looked creepy, so I made a slight adjustment to make the symbol person look a little more happy. It’s amazing how a couple circles can totally change the feel of the graphic. See for yourself above and below.
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