Why did the headless chicken cross the road?

If one catches Covis 19 but doesn't get it checked, are they really sick? I'm not diminishing the importance nor am I ignoring the Covid 19 pandemic, but, I do think it has been blown out of proportion by the world's media. I don't recall a news coverage, not even in the darkest days of HIV, which had a daily count of the dead and infected. All we are missing now, are huge time displays located in every large city, displaying the daily "countdown", making it a true Netflix science fiction flick. Here in Israel, we're headed into a third lockdown and all I can think of, is: "is all this self-inflicted?" I don't mean by not taking care of each other, or not wearing a mask. I am talking about the self-inflicted media panic and disarray which made us all run like headless chickens, instead of managing this pandemic in a responsible and logical manner. So... why did the headless chicken cross the road? Well, it did so because it can't see the road with no head, all it can do is listen, and we all know nowadays electric cars are silent, so it really didn't have a praying chance :-( So do we keep on listening? And if we do, who should we listen to? The media? The government? Ourselves? I am not sure. Don't get me wrong I don't want to catch this virus either, but I also don't want to act like a headless chicken, I kind of like my head. And let's face it (no pun intended), without it how could we ever wear a mask?

If everyone thinks outside... what's left in the box?

Well, not much apparently. The race for solutions (for everything) from "outside the box" left us with just a bigger emptier box. The idea behind the concept is to look further beyond one's normal way of thinking, in order to come up with different answers to the same questions. Coming from the ad world, I am no stranger to the concept. Even now facing the Covid 19 virus everyone is trying to "think outside the box" and come up with creative solutions, but what about some good and straight up inside the box ideas? Maybe like, Idon't know, wearing a mask? keeping a social distance? not crowding? Shocking I know, but it was always right there inside the box. I think it is not only the thinkers but ruther the implementers of the ideas, i.e us that must retune to the box. Return to do what we can do easly. Stop listening to all the "outside the box" noise that comes from people who are trying desperetly to catalogue us in boxes. Don't get me wrong I am all for thinking and always looking for better and smarter solutions but... as long as it is done by us for us.

Houston we have a problem

So...

I have watched The Social Dilemma. I think it was my social duty. Not that anything really took me by surprise there, but still it got me thinking about the social part. It's been 8 months since Covid 19 entered our lives. We have gone through epidemics before (and still do) Aids, Sars, etc, and some that are still with us and will probably be for a long time such as Cancer and heart diseases. But the one thing different is the social effect. True, Aids had a massive social effect but still, it was different.

I am not talking about the after-effects. As an optimist, I believe that we will look back at all this like any other major bump on the way. But, the effects we are experiencing now are pretty heavy. As a social person, I feel the past 8 months (on and off) were to me as a life sentence. Closed most of the time between 4 walls, no parties, no restaurants, no traveling whatsoever, no sitting with friends in coffee shops... all we got left are our social networks (and Netflix of course).

As someone who's living by myself, it has been an experience. If at first, we thought we knew ourselves, we now had the dubious opportunity to enjoy our own company. Or maybe even see ourselves as other people see us, and hopefully, like what we see.

Well, I do like what I see (so far), but I am not going to tell you we are going to get out stronger than we went in. Because we simply don't know. And even as an optimist, we did lose an entire social year.

So I think the real social dilemma or question is:

Is online social really social? 

Music to my ears :-(

I'm positive (not the virus)

We should all learn from Poo. I am starting to... even as positive as I am, these times make it hard for all of us to stay positive and see the good in everything. But Poo is of course right. If we'll take a look at our situation from outside, we will see that there is a lot of positive. We have a lot of quality time with our families and our partners. We have the time to finish all of our neglected projects around the house and much, much more.

But most important, soon we will all go back to our lives as they were before all this, with all the work related pressure, traffic jams and having no time for ourselves.

So... listen to Poo and be positive because today, is our new favorite day :-) 

Bored James Bored

The world has a new 00 now, and his name is 19, Covid 19 or as I like to call him 0019.
This new agent has, like his predecessors, a license to kill, and he doesn't care who his victims are or where they're from.
0019 is much more effective than the rest of the 00's and even 007. It took him less than two months to shut down the entire world. No planes, trains, cars or even people can move around freely when he 's around. Unlike 007, no one knows who he really is, there is a picture, but that too is inconclusive.

All around the world governments are trying very hard to get rid of him or at the very least find something that can stand up to him or even slow him down.

A main difference from 007 has been found, which is his affection to older women (or men), instead of the usual 00's style. This discovery convinced few world leaders to look at these "targets" as expendable. By doing so they thought it will help them deal with rest of us faster. But 0019 as we mentioned before doesn't care who he hurts, so... he's now killing people of all ages.
It also seems that 0019 is killing aimlessly but when looking carefully at his destruction path one can notice that what he really aims for, is to domesticate us animals, a fact that will cause a few raised eyebrows with those who believe in conspiracy theories.

Whatever his aim is, I think we better stay off his path if possible. Maybe some time home, apart from the rest of society and especially apart from nature is all we need to get our humanity back.

Anti virus

2020 and it seems we are living in a futuristic, apocalyptic film. The Corona virus, the new villein and threat to humanity (at least for now), is as we all know, basically flew.
But flew or not, I am waiting to for the first zombie to pop up. I believe that till the first one appears, there is no real reason to get paranoid. Especially for us Israelis, which are used to many things that try to kill us on a daily basis, so one more is not that threatening.
Plus, we have Check-point, which will probably provide the world with its first anti virus for zombies, or at least for the Corona virus or Covid-19 as it is now called.
Think of this:
Zombies usually come in groups (you can see them coming), and walk pretty slow. In addition, you can use a shotgun and fire straight to their faces it usually does the trick. So even if there is no anti virus yet you most probably be fine. But still, self isolation will do the job as well.

So... I will leave you with this famous quote: "For god's  sake, stop that whining!"

A negative positive

Diversity or Politics? You be the judge...

Is prevention the answer

Well is it? Is it the fact that their parents had unprotected sex or that we keep choosing to be led by the "insane". And if these "leaders" wouldn't have been born at all, would we have chosen better or worst? If a "crazy" leader is not elected, is he still a "crazy"?