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2020-04-26
A World Apart
Nearly a decade ago, I immigrated to South Africa. At the time of the start of the pandemic, my partner and I had been struggling with our visa papers and it had been 7 years of fighting with Home Affairs. March 2020 saw the closure of Home Affairs, a national state of emergency with nearly a year of stay-at-home orders from the government, curfew, and limited access to the public sphere, and for the first time, a reprieve from the nightmares of the immigration process. Just like that, in a single memo to the public, Home Affairs resolved all of its bureaucracy, in favour of public safety, and my partner and I were able to stay in the same place together for over 18 months. The longest we'd been able to stay together since immigrating. In a situation that saw so much upheaval, pain, uncertainty, and widespread panic, I found precious moments of peace and safety. I felt lucky and guilty all at once. Living in a rural forest community in the mountains, with my nearest neighbour over a mile away, stay-at-home orders had little impact on my daily life and I was able to relish time at home with the people who mean the most to me. All the while, stories of social and political dissent and unrest played a continual reminder that not all was right with the world, that my experience was unique and world's apart from the collective pandemic experience. I was made painfully aware that this global phenomenon, one that connected people so thoroughly and completely, was a deeply and fundamentally separate experience for myself. I have a privileged, unique, and unusual story of joy and peace experiencing the pandemic. As an American in another country, I was able to see first hand what a nation with limited resources could do when it decided to put public health and safety above all else. The pandemic provided me with my very first experience of feeling wholly communally supported, safe, and protected. This is a story I want to share because so many people were deeply traumatised by their government's response to covid and the subsequent fallout of the lack of support, and for them to know that it was no failing on their part for feeling like they were put through a meat grinder. Every single person on this planet deserved to experience the ease and simple joy that I was granted, and in a world with such immense wealth, there is honestly no excuse for why my experience was so unique. -
2020-04-26
Covid gets triggered
Covid and Yossarian Episode 40, A comic strip about Covid-19 -
2020-04-26
My Thoughts
I think we should and should not share the United States supplies for the virus with India. I think we should use it on ourselves first and then give them out leftovers. If we dont use it for ourselves first it would be dumb. It's like before you get on a plane and the plane crew goes over on what to do and not to do when there is an emergency on the plane. Say put your mask thing on yourself before you put it on others. It is the same with the vaccines and supplies. We need to use it for ourselves and America before we use it in India. However we need to make sure those supplies get there as soon as we are done with them. If we do not get the supplies to them fastly many will die. Also people could create something new because they could catch other diseases if they are not clean of germs. Also the hospital is running out of oxygen. Oxygen is very needed in order to keep people alive. From the video the hospital just does not look safe in general. Everyone was so crammed up and were not socially distancing. I am pretty sure they are also out of covid test which could lead to them being in a room with other positive people because they think they have it. Sometimes they will think wrong and end up getting it because they are next to people who are positive with the virus. -
2020-04-26
Porsche Joy Ride
“I was coming back after giving food packets to the people in need. I showed them my pass but they abused me and asked me to do sit-ups“. -
2020-04-26
Covid pet
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2020-04-26
Volunteer Emergency Responders Face a Dilemma: Save Lives or Stay Safe
Across the country, volunteer fire and EMS services are facing a dangerous choice during the COVID-19 pandemic, save the lives of others or stay safe. With a lack of funding for many of these departments, proper PPE is a luxury many do not have access to. Among workers in the healthcare field, volunteer members are seeing the highest rates of infection. -
2020-04-26
Humans of Covid-19 AU: Anja & Michael
“We make freshly baked scones for farmers markets and small events. Everything is made fresh on premises. We have been doing this for 9 years. We have been massively impacted by COVID-19. In about 2 weeks we probably lost about 80% of our markets, everything fell away from under our feet. However, we have found another way - we have tapped into social media in order to offer free delivery in our suburb, it has been hugely successful, we did not anticipate this. On saturday, there was a small market, then we did 30 deliveries in one afternoon! At the beginning, we were anxious about the uncertainty and we did not know if we could continue with the business at all. The uncertainty was the worst. Also the timeframe was challenging, we were supposed to be working at a market in the Dandenongs for 30 days continuously. But that was cancelled. So all our business calculations were thrown out. All my family is in Germany, which is quite tough at the moment. There’s a lot that I'm missing out on. Sometimes life throws you curveballs, and you just have to deal with it.” Instagram post on Anja & Michael, scones food truck, and their experience during the pandemic, which was created by a psychology student living in Melbourne who was interested to hear about how COVID-19 was impacting on different peoples’ lives. -
2020-04-26
A Memorial Is Never Small
A police station was situated a few years back in my neighborhood, which was a welcome addition as the otherwise quiet neighborhood had been experiencing low level crime and quality of life issues. For the first time in my life, I will be served multiple glimpses into a working police station as I would use the subway stop multiple times, albeit not during the covid lock down as I was staying indoors for an extended period. At one point I decided to 'break quarantine' and head into Manhattan where I came across this memorial to some officers who passed away due to covid-19. I was living in NYC during 9-11 and seen the various impromptu memorials to all those first responders; there had also been a previous memorial to an officer killed in a non-work related incident (I believe but I am not sure and only included to provide context to the memorial). This was a disquieting discovery because these officers were stricken by a virus that they would not have known where, when or how they were infected. While I was indoors all that time; even though I knew there were many essential workers who were being felled but I did not see their faces and names in such an up close yet quiet fashion. It was what their brother & sister officers could do and that is all that matters. -
2020-04-26
Help Wanted
While many small businesses shed jobs in the face of lockdowns, special needs communities saw an urgent need for more help to keep their residents safe from contracting the virus. One recruiting inducement was the promise of a hiring bonus, such as the one depicted in this photograph. Northeastern JOTPY -
2020-04-26
COVID 19 denier blaming virus on Obama
Taken from the sub Reddit “insanepeopleoffacebook,” this user posted a picture seen on Facebook of a person protesting against the shut down of businesses and facilities due to COVID-19. This participant protester equates COVID-19 with Obama, suggesting a conspiracy. These protests were made up of COVID-19 skeptics. -
2020-04-26
Cobourg Beach Relief Base Camp
A photograph taken while someone was walking their dog, of a cordoned off area of the park at Cobourg beach and the sign attached to the fencing. The sign reads "Relief Base Camp/ First Responders and Frontline Medical Staff/ CLOSED TO THE PUBLIC/ cobourg.ca/covid19" and the caption on the image reads "The waterfront trailer park is being used for frontline workers who need to isolate to keep their families safe (heart)" -
2020-04-26
How the coronavirus has impacted the U.S. military
This article in-depthly goes over the current pandemic and how it is specifically affecting the U.S. military. -
2020-04-26
Kumamoto Castle Self-Restraint Poster
A poster created by Kumamoto City in southern Japan, featuring a picture of Kumamoto Castle, which is under repair since a powerful earthquake in 2016. The poster reads: 籠城じゃ。家にいよう。みんなで打ち克とう。熊本市。 We're holed up as if in a castle under siege. Let's stay home. Let's be victorious together. Kumamoto City. -
04/26/2020
Senior drove through love parade
My grandmother Pauline Bell made it into the local paper. She lives in an assisted living community and no visitors are allowed. Family was invited to decorate their cars and drive by slowly honking and encouraging their loved ones from a safe distance! -
04/26/2020
In California, Hawaiians And Other Pacific Islanders Have Highest COVID-19 Death Rate
Article from Honolulu Civil Beat on the disproportionate impact of Covid19 on those of Pacific Island descent in California -
2020-04-26
Living Through COVID-19
I am explaining the different things that I was doing during COVID-19 for a week. Jorge Monfil, Dougherty Family College, HIST 115 -
2020-04-26
Covid-19 Protest in Tracy, CA
On the way back from the grocery store I snapped this picture of a group of people protesting on the corner of a busy intersection in my home town of Tracy, CA. They were protesting the stay at home order put out by the governor and seemed to think the virus was a hoax. #CSUS #HIST15H -
2020-04-26
Bike Ride Adventure
I took my nieces and nephew on a bike ride the other day so they could feel the sun and have fun as kids should. We usually take a shorter route that takes us around 15 minutes, but my nieces and nephew requested the longer route which takes us over an hour. #CSUS #HIST15H -
2020-04-26
Signs From Around: #10, Washington Heights, NY
"Signs From Around: #10, Washington Heights, NY" is part of a series exploring the signage surrounding COVID-19 from different parts of the world. Letting front line workers know we appreciate them! #FordhamUniversity #VART3030 #SignsFromAroundSeries -
2020-04-26
Corey Henry and the Treme Funktet Stream Live Performance from Vaughan's Lounge, New Orleans, LA
New Orleans trumpeter and bandleader Corey Henry announces live stream performance by his band Corey Henry and the Treme Funktet from Vaughan's Lounge during COVID-19 stay-at-home-order. -
2020-04-26
Me and my brother playing madden Tyler Cain
This is a video of me and my brother playing madden and talking smack. Playful, explicit language! -
2020-04-26
Pizza and Toliet Paper
A local pizza place called Rosatis Pizza has begun to give out a free roll of toliet paper for every order. When my family ordered dinner from there we had no idea they were doing this. It is weird to think about how just a few months ago if a pizza place gave out a roll of toliet paper it would have been very strange, but now in the current environment created by the pandemic it is a thoughtful and appreciated gesture. It shows how values have changed during the pandemic and the importance of still trying to support local businesses as best as we can, and in return the businesses are doing what they can to show their appreciate for consumer support during the pandemic. -
2020-04-26
The Awakening
The awakening of the collective; mind, body, soul and the beginning of the end of industrial society - a New World Order I was living and working casually at a children's outdoor education centre one day I was sitting on my sofa the next I was on the street. Week 1 - all casuals laid off Week 2 - All full-time staff cut back to half hours Week 3 - all staff living on centre given eviction within 72 hours Week 4 - homelessness and couch surfing Week 5 - Self Isolation & Family Week 6 - Family Feuds & Domestic Violence Week 7 - A run in with Police whilst living out of my Car Week 8 - My own place new beginnings Although life has thrown many curveballs I struggle with mental illness and addiction - now the world knows how it is to feel in social isolation - depressed, alone, unmotivated, unwanted, uninspired and ironically for those of us who have lived with mental illness our entire lives are no longer alone in our suffering. I shaved my head to symbolise being reborn into a new world order - one of hope, health, compassion and understanding with the soul & spirit being central to our livelihood. -
2020-04-26
My Experiences of COVID-19
Personal experience with COVID-19 -
2020-04-26
FB Live Concert with Roger Clyne
Many of my favorite musicians kept us entertained by putting on FB live concerts. To repay the kindness we would tip them via Venmo or PayPal. This is one of the things that kept me sane and gave me a relief from the boredom and loneliness as I could comment to friends live during the show. It was really awesome! -
2020-04-26
Life as an essential worker during COVD-19
During this pandemic, my restaurant closed. As a workaholic I found myself gong downhill mentally and decided to search for a new job. Now I work as a barista at a coffee shop experiencing high demand during this time. #REL101 -
2020-04-26
Preparing for the Summer
Daniel Quintero, age 23, has found a lot of positives within the COVID-19 pandemic. He was optimistic during the interview and emphasized the value he's found living on a farm. "I think if this hadn't happened, I wouldn't be able to be living on a farm and go back to the land, to get connected to nature. Although I was born in a city, I've really enjoyed farm life and learning how to care for a plant. Being in nature has taught me a lot. Also, given that I'm underloading at Carleton, I've had a lot of time to really take in what I'm learning by living at a farm. Although I'm sad to not have a graduation or senior spring, I've still managed to get meaningful things out of this." -
2020-04-26
Space
This image can mean multiple things. As you can see with the model it is floating and is isolated by a simple background. The negative space represents the social isolation and the model is trying to make the best of the situation. #REL101 -
2020-04-26
COVID 19 Abandoned Building
This picture was taken at an abandoned building along Highway 905 in Longs, South Carolina on my drive home from work. Being out of work for over two weeks made me eager to get back to work as a pet groomer achieve some sense of normalcy. Work can often be fast paced and the new requirement of masks and curbside-only pick-up made things a little different, but I looked forward to the drive home, which I usually use to clear my head and unwind. Seeing this made me realize that no matter where we go or what we do, COVID 19 will have a lasting impact that we may be reminded of in the least expected places. Hopefully this can be painted over in the future with something far brighter and encouraging. -
2020-04-26
Sabrina Dances in My Animated Living Room
I have been making animations in order to help overcome anxieties and to practice new animation techniques. I told people to send me photos of their favorite place and then I can animate it for them, this is one of those. -
2020-04-26
Bolsonaro in fresh crisis over son's alleged links to fake news racket
There are reports that President Jair Bolsonaro's son Carlos Bolsonaro has been connected to a criminal fake news group. Bolsonaro denies these accusations. -
2020-04-26
Allison Cappello
[Curator's Note]: A Personal Account during the Pandemic -
2020-04-26
Trump and COVID-19
Out of 13 Hours of Trump Covid-19 Briefings, Just 4.5 Minutes of Empathy for Victims: Analysis -
2020-04-26
Flowers in the Trash Cans
One month after the US declared a national emergency, the virus is still spreading rapidly. New York, as a severe area in the United States, has the most diagnosed numbers. Even so, the New Yorkers did not give up hope for a moment. New York florist Lewis Miller, reproduces his iconic street floral, FlowerFlash, on the empty streets of New York in the epidemic, paying tribute to the frontline New York medical staff with the vitality of flowers. Lewis Miller used all kinds of flowers to show the vigorous vitality, just like the hope that New Yorkers never extinguish. -
2020-04-26
Helping Grammie
Helping Grammie -
2020-04-26
Blooming season
This is a piece I saw at the beginning of the Spring. It is the season that the flowers are blooming. I believe it can seem like hope. The spring is coming, and the virus will soonly being under control. This is a restart. #VART3030 -
2020-04-26
COVIDSafe Phone App
Despite some concerns about privacy, the Australian Government has just launched the COVIDSafe app to help in contacting people exposed to coronavirus. Around a million people have downloaded the app n the first day -
2020-04-26
We'll Meet Again
During this tumultuous and stressful time of quarantining and attempting to manage COVID-19, there are a few things that have become apparent. First, as a society that has ceased to consider plagues as an imminent threat until recently, we have all taken human interaction for granted. The intimacy created by being in someone’s presence and experiencing their touch, smell, and energy is something we experienced every day before the quarantine began. Now, as people are locked away in their homes, we are all realizing that despite the technology at our fingertips, we cannot replicate those feelings. Video chatting, using social media platforms, calling, and texting are not substitutes for experiencing human connections face-to-face. Many couples and friends are unable to quarantine together, and because of that, they are missing out on the intimacy they used to have. We, as human beings, naturally crave human affection and love, and it can be quite difficult to communicate that when you must be so far apart. In addition, we have taken for granted the ability to go outside with virtually no fear of contracting a virus that could take away the lives of people around us, as well as ourselves. The ability to go outside and go to a park, admire nature, and walk around without a care in the world is gone. Art has always been an extremely significant aspect of life - it depicts history, emotions, imaginary places… Now, more than ever, art is an escape from the stressful reality that we face. It is also a means of bringing attention to the severity of the situation at hand. This piece represents the desire for intimacy of all forms that we experience when we are apart from the people that we love. It represents our connection with nature that has been taken away from us during quarantine. Eventually, this will all be over - in a few months, a year, or maybe even several years. But whenever it is, my friends, loved ones, and the beautiful aspects of nature that I miss so much - we’ll meet again. -
2020-04-26
The disappointing year
Hi, my name is Anastasiia. Today is the 46th day of quarantine, which has been introduced by Ukraine due to the world coronavirus pandemic. Self-isolation means restriction or even exception of social contacts to pause the virus spread. To my opinion, these precautions are logical, because humanity has no vaccine, and we will not have it at an early date. But, I need to say, that quarantine is just formality in my country. People go out to walk and drink alcohol in the yards, they throng in hypermarkets, they even make B-B-Q in parks. I’ve heard, that even some restaurants receive rich guests. Ok, we understand, that there is no quarantine for oligarchs and their escort. BUT, EASTER, APRIL 19! IT WAS FUCKING AWESOME. About 130 000 of believers rushed to churches and temples to lick pope’s hands and get some “saint water”. Bravo, guys. This entailed an extension of quarantine until May 11. And something tells me, this is not the end. Everybody understands that world wasn’t ready for this shitty disaster. Ukraine’s economy is beggar, so am I. I’ve worked about 6 years in the food service industry. And I realize, quarantine hit all of spheres of life, but restaurants/cafes/cinemas/shops/beauty salons suffer the most of all. So yeah, I’m 24 and I’m unemployed. Of course, there are a lot of vacancies on the remote, but, to be honest, I don’t wanna to masturbate on the camera or sale rubbish that nobody needs. My subjective opinion is this home imprisonment is a kind of free time to overestimate priorities. I’ll explain. As for me, I always chased money. I could work in two different cafes without weekends. I worked abroad hard for money only, and so on. AND NOW I HAVE NO JOB! I AM USELESS. I HAVE NO MONEY. I WILL DIE! No wonder I got depressed. I needed about 3 weeks, a couple of sessions with my psychotherapist and psychiatrist to understand what should I do to stay afloat. I must make great efforts to shift focus from money to spiritual values. It turns out I have friends. It turns out I can embroider, cycle a fixed-gear, cook delicious dishes. Shit, even my acne disappeared. I’m imprisoned with my boyfriend in the one-room apartment we’ve recently rented. AND GOD I HATE EVERY MILIMETER OF THIS FUCKING SMALL FLAT! Every your day is like Groundhog Day (like in the movie). Huh, smth about my boyfriend. The first self-isolation month was very hard. We argued every fucking day. Even if I have warm and bright feelings to this awesome guy, sometimes I just wanted TO KILL HIM WHY HE DIDN’T WASH THE DISHES OR WHY DIDN’T HE READ MY MIND TO UNDERSTAND THAT I WANT THE CHOCOLATE ICE CREAM, NOT THE STRAWBERRY ONE!!! Do you understand? Yeah, I was really scared when he took his bike and ran away from me in the midst of our quarrel. In two days he came back, of course. But now I really realize when I should shut the fuck up. I know, there’re a lot of couples, who break up or get divorced in this period of quarantine. But yeah, we’re lucky with each other. We’re just trying to find a compromise. Now I’m not scared of virus. I’m afraid to stay unemployed and to starve to death. Oh yeah, I’ll die on the street, because we will be kicked out of the apartment for non-payment. Millions of Ukrainians are scared. By the way, about the work. I’ve decided to start the QA-engineering career, so I have to study during all the day. BUT, my laziness and anxious brain blocks every attempts to remember smth new, and I feel guilty. Multiply this guilt by the success cult we hear from every iron about – HELLO DEPRESSION !!! We all are tired and scared. All this is wrong. The world will not stay the same. Only those who can adapt to the quick changes will survive. So now I need to receive am I that adaptable person. -
2020-04-26
Rose bushes
My window opens into the backyard with rose bushes and drying up on the April’s sun neighbors’ bed sheets. As I go out to buy some meal I feel sunkisses on my face. How precious they are. No changes, the same pleasure as it was the last spring. No changes, the same regret, but now it became the kind of war fear that women used to have. Is he alright there? I don’t even know. No more opportunity to see him, even less than earlier. He’s in Poland, I’m in France and we are legislatively separated. True love is such a natural thing. It’s not artificial in other words, what literally means it can flourish without people’s help. You can have it inside you, and if you don’t, then your tree is supposed to grow later. Like rose bushes in front of my window, they are beautiful on their own. So us taught the quarantine, some real things as nature are going to overcome alone. And so is my love. It is such a good sign, no? Why then people often consider love as a weakness? I don’t know, I’m just going to go through as I always did. I keep hoping one day I will meet again the man I love the most and he will see that girl he loved since adolescence. But now I’m sitting here alone one more evening and writing him a letter: ‘ Heavy rain has stopped and the sun came out again but this time dressed up in its sunset attire in pastel tones. It smelled sweet and it smelled like freedom. Breathing became so easy that one moment it has got clear – happiness is there where you can breathe easily. What strangles us that keeps us tense that keeps us without a will. Do you want the happiness all life long? Then find it anywhere you can. If the happiness is just a moment then you shouldn’t forget that our time is weaved by them.’ -
2020-04-26
There was no plague
There was no plague whatsoever. The hospitals and clinics were closed and empty. In my city (Rostov-on-Don) we had some dozens of registered infected people, virtually noone was in a severe condition. Tests were 60% precise at most, so multiple tests were necessary, like 3. So that you will get a false positive result for sure. People were scared, 70% wore masks nd gloves. Citizens were forbidden to leave home, but we did not abide those rule, because everyone saw that they were unnecessary. I repeat one more time: no plague in South-Western Russia. -
2020-04-26
Tired
Gennady Khodov provides reflections on the quarantine in their home -
2020-04-26
My Isolation
Gennady Khodov provides his reflections on quarantine -
2020-04-26
Hopeless laziness
I want to tell you about my expiriense of covid-19 isolation. I'm a little man, 26 age, programmer, introvert, therefore, I endure isolation almost painlessly. At my student times I sat at home during weeks which served as a good preparation for the present situation. I almost don't suffer from a lack of live communication, becouse I have a lot of friends at web, and we can call to eachouthers every day and spend our time by playing computer games. But anyway I have one big problem via covid-19. It is a bigest procrastination. I want to change my job, and thereby need learn a lot of materials, but all this decadent atmosphere making me lost my time and procrastinating. This is horrible. Looks like this pandemic situation indulges to my lazy demons, becouse all people don't do nothing, therefore, I do the same. >_< . Or maybe I justify my laziness in this way. Any way, I know, that all this problems end, and life will return to it's course again. This pandemic don't scared me, but I learned that I must be ready to meet face to face situations, which I can’t influence in any way. -
2020-04-26
the view from Ukraine
Описал за 20 минут мои ощущения об эпидемии и разместил их в архиве для будущего поколения. Такое маленькое поле для описание столь глобальной проблемы, как CORVID19-20. Пишу данный текст на русском, ибо нехватка знаний английского. Прочитавшие это славяни из будущего будут приятно удивлены. Мне 26 лет, без трёх дней 27. На моём веку происходило разное, сейчас же глобальная эпидемия. Попробую описать её влияние на меня. В связи с опасностью для здоровья мир вынужден сидеть на самоизоляции, делать покупки онлайн, кушать ресторанные блюда из коробочек и сушить свои руки спиртовыми антисептикаи. Последнее очень сушит кожу рук, так что кокосовое масло стоит на прикроватной тумбе, ещё томик Антона Чехова скрашивая мысли о великом иронией и колким словцом. Моя самоизоляция проходит за городом в кругу родных, благо у нас большой дом и пересекаться постоянно нет надобности. В это время я прочувствовал свою интровертность ещё лучше, мне хорошо одному, как бы современные учёные не говорили о важности коммуникации. Я человек своего времени, постоянное общение онлайн и тонны информации не дают мне оставаться наедине с собой. Отличное время: я учусь не спешить, работаю над самодисциплиной, много читаю (Чехова в частности). Время когда всё остановилось, когда у людей появились новые возможности, но и новые проблемы и чего больше пока не ясно. Территориально я в Украине, город Днепр. Небольшой город до миллиона жителе, с огромной еврейской общиной. Шаббат Шалом, ребята!) Кстати ведь можно провести параллель между этой традицией и происходящим сейчас, когда ты сидишь дома, ничего не делаешь и только молишься. Молитвами в данной ситуации думаю не поможешь. Ситуация в моей стране не критичная, смертей не много, люди ещё не обозлены, государство принимает минимальные меры, которых я думаю должно хватить для прекращения и старта привычного ритма жизни. Вопрос, будет ли эта жизнь привычной? Неизвестно. Мы же существа легко адаптируемые, если открыты и готовы принимать настоящие каким оно является. Да, читаю немного философии, что собственно и влияет на такие вопросы и мыли. Кстати, рекомендую Кришнамурти - это для вас из будущего. Он будет актуален и при вашем времени. Буду ли я в нём, непонятно. В целом ситуация не выбила меня из колеи, я её принял и стараюсь работать с ней, не скучать и унывать. Вдруг, это кто-то прочтёт, хочу сказать что мы такие же как и вы в вашем сейчас. Те же люди, ведь мы не меняемся уже тысячи лет. На просто становится больше. Сейчас чуть больше семи миллиардов. Интересно, если вас там меньше. :) В целом современный мир отлично справляется с эпидемией такого уровня, мы сильные и умные существа. И такая злая мысль, пусть это будет естественный отбор, в мире, которому и без нас хорошо - стало лучше в этом спокойствие. Животные размножаются, природа восстанавливается. Так что из страшного, это невозможность сходить в бар с друзьями, если у вас есть такие. Спасибо, если прочли. Обнял! Всем любви и улыбок. Двигайтесь, не забывайте об этом. -
2020-04-26
Uncertainty (Author: Gennady Khodov)
Reading the news earlier this year, I came across information that people in China got coronavirus, and some even died because of it. When I read the news, I thought it would pass soon and thought the virus wouldn't reach our country. But I was too naive. After a while, the situation in the world was getting worse and the virus had gotten into many countries. At that time, I was beginning to realize that it was all very serious and that the virus was very dangerous to human civilization. In many countries, the authorities took strict measures to protect people from infection. In mid-March, a state of emergency was declared in Kazakhstan. People were in panic. Many people went to shops and bought a lot of food. I had the impression that the apocalypse was coming. But I was calm about the situation and did not buy a lot of groceries. Then I started monitoring the situation and reading the news about the coronavirus almost every day. There was a shortage of masks and antiseptics in our city and the prices of these things were very much up. People started to lose their jobs and I was afraid that I would lose my job too. I was working in another city, and I lived far away from work and in the city where my father and grandmother lived. And now I've been quarantined in many cities in our country. I didn't know what to do when they quarantined me. I couldn't go to another city for my work. I got depressed. I was afraid I would be left without money and all my clothes and documents were left with my grandmother in another city. I couldn't get my stuff to my girlfriend's. My girlfriend is pregnant. And I was also afraid for her. She's about to have a baby, and I lost my income. At that moment I was even thinking about suicide. How can I provide for the girl, myself and the future child in this situation?) These thoughts have tormented and tormented me until now. I got another job, but they don't pay me much here. And this money will probably not be enough, and the baby will be born this summer. Cases of coronavirus are only growing and I understand that the quarantine will last a long time and I will not see my grandmother and father soon. But for now, I'm trying to stay strong and keep my spirits up. I hope for the best... But I don't know what's gonna happen next... Uncertainty is a little scary. And I want to finish my small text with a quote from Arthur Schopenhauer: The world is definitely bad in every respect: it is aesthetically like a caricature, intellectually - like a madhouse, morally - like a fraudulent brothel, and in general - like prison. (Translated the text with a translator. Thank you for reading it...) -
2020-04-26
*"The pandemic disconnected me and the person I got acquainted with..."
The pandemic disconnected me and the person I got acquainted with just before the lockdown in Moscow, but I know the meeting was crucial for both of us and was the beginning of something great in the future. The disease is stealing the time and the chances we could use to finally change our lives. But the worst part is that I have no opportunity to contact him and simply tell to be careful and stay home. Whatever I did to reach him, whenever I sent emails or whoever asked to tell him the thing, I got nothing. All my messages were ignored or made fun of and sent to trash bins. Probably good intentions are never good enough to be heard? It’s feeling like a glass cage-in the internet and globalisation century you can’t provide a person with a care, at least it could change things for the better for him? I wish I was aware if he is okay because no one knows when the pandemic will end and no one can be sure he will survive until it does. There was no day I didn’t recalled our meeting, feels like it wasn’t 4 months but just few hours ago. I was so eager to meet him again and discuss so many things we both like, I’m sure we’re meant for each other and finally our paths crossed. Now all I pray for is not to see his death on the news one day. I know that probably he even doesn’t remember me already but I don’t care. Imagine you cannot care of a beloved person and have no idea how he’s feeling and never do the same mistakes humanity is doing right now. If you’re the person who is able to help someone for good or have an ability to connect somebody, please, forget arrogance and disregard and help. Sometimes it’s not this difficult and doesn’t require too much effort from you, but could save life. Be kind. -
2020-04-26
It is not too bad
I was prepared for this for all entire life. All the day playing videogames, and watching tv series. Stop complaining, you maggot!! The whole world have a vacation. -
2020-04-26
My quarantine
*Wanted to share my experience with the whole world -
2020-04-26
How I decided to make my first start up to help game dev
I decided to help people in game dev find each other and help them collborate and make their projects together. I'm studying for websites making, so it will be good practice. Who knows, maybe even I finally will find help with my own gameved project on my own site