Re: Ordinary Life
Originally Posted by
spitfire
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Have you managed to live an ordinary life, despite everything flung by the Media?
Originally Posted by
Jem
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Yes I have managed it alright Spitty, the secret is to duck quickly when the media flings stuff at you, that way you miss all the crap they aim at you.
Ignorence of media news is also bliss, what the eye doesn’t see, nor the ear hear, the heart doesn’t grieve for, an all that.
I couldn't agree with you more Jem.
I struggled with the lockdown and eventually realised it was not just the solitary aspect of it, which I could do nothing about, but it was also the continual 'negative news' about what was happening, the people who had contracted coronavirus and the fatalities that was 'playing with my head'. Once I avoided all news about it, only finding out when I wanted to know, did I begin to cope better. Now, when I do wish to check I use the website used in the past, ironically that no longer appears to give the daily figures, only the totals. Check this for yourselves if you wish to, it was very regularly updated during the months of lockdown but now seems to have changed in this respect:
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/