The word “quarantine” comes from the Italian term for 40 days because that was the longest time that people were believed to be able to withstand lockdown before they started to lose it. Now we are starting to see why. Is it really life if you can’t live it?
Life During COVID-19
Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication, WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a frequent contributor to The Wall Street Journal, a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "The Stringer."
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The obvious solution, Ted, is to take yourself and your trusty assault rifle to the nerest state legislature and demand the the quarantine be lifted…. 😉
Henri
In note an absence of “smart” phones in (+)COVID “anti-life.”
Could this be the factor that causes the yearning for pre-COVID “real-life.”
I suspect we could just as easily ignore our friends, in the quasi-exclusive thrall of said phones, as easily during internet meet-ups as we used to do in person.