Category: environmentalism
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Day Seventeen of ORCA in Switzerland – April Fool’s During Self Isolation
Reading Time: 3 minutesApril Fool’s during self isolation is not fun. People made jokes about how our freedoms would be limited even further. In ordinary situations those jokes would be detected but because we have the freedom to get food, go for walks, and sit at home we have no other rewards as such. One…
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Day Sixteen of ORCA in Switzerland – Pandemic Solitude
Reading Time: 2 minutesI was writing a Facebook post when I thought of the term Pandemic Solitude and I love it so much that I wanted to use it as a title for today’s blog post. For most people during the pandemic the order is, stay with the people you live with but avoid being…
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Day Fifteen of ORCA in Switzerland – Pandemic Fatigue
Reading Time: 2 minutesNow that we’re in week 5 of self-isolation and Day fifteen of ORCA I am getting pandemic fatigue. As it’s Monday I could make the effort of going to the shops to get fresh food rather than deplete the reserves I have but my motivation is not there. It has come cold…
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Day Fourteen of Orca in Switzerland – Simulating An Epidemic
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis morning I watched the Simulating an epidemic and it’s interesting. The person is not an expert. He played with various models to show how epidemics spread over a period of time when variables such as infectiousness, social distancing, quarantining and other variables are implemented. If one hundred percent of people self-isolate…
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Day Thirteen of Orca in Switzerland – Reaching Goals
Reading Time: 3 minutesLife during a Pandemic is quite the existential challenge so reaching goals is good. Today I walked the last two kilometres to reach the March challenge goal of walking 298.8Km. In ordinary times this would be a great achievement but during a pandemic, it’s even more interesting. Although it might seem superficial…
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Day Eleven of Orca in Switzerland – Clothes Have Been Barricaded Away
Reading Time: 2 minutesToday’s joke is that clothes have been barricaded away as you can see in the featured photo. I find the idea of hiding clothing behind a wall of beers amusing. How often would you see this. I hope that your underwear and socks are new because if they’re not you may spend…
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Day ten of Orca in Switzerland – The New Normal
Reading Time: 3 minutesToday I’m getting to grips with the new normal. The new normal is queuing like people did before self-checkout and other technology. We also need to queue to get into shops and you either need to take a trolley or a shopping bag if you want to buy things. No more baskets…
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Day Nine of Orca in Switzerland – Not Our first Epidemic, but the most severe.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis is not our first epidemic. In the 21st century I saw the actions to spread Foot and Mouth from spreading in South West England. Dartmoor was closed and precautions were taken to protect animals. We also lived through the BSE crisis, i.e. Mad cow disease. From 2002 we had the SARS…
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Day Eight of Orca in Switzerland – Herded like Cattle
Reading Time: 2 minutesToday I was herded like cattle at the shops and walked along the edge of a field I had never walked along before. At the shops they put tape up, like a maze to force people to walk a certain circuitous route. The circuitous route would be fascinating if the shops were…