Tips on How to Isolate Well

Townhall.com ^ | March 28, 2020 | Daniel Buck

[billorites]

10. Avoid all eye contact.

11. Don't fall asleep with the TV on

[period end of story]

Solitary confinement is starting to look good.

[Edward Teach]

Restricting the movement of sick people is called quarantine.
Restricting the movement of healthy people is called tyranny.

[dljordan]

This is getting to be very cult like.

[Rockingham]

Aw, hell, why not just treat it like a long holiday weekend with nothing to do except catch up on sleep and binge watch TV?

[dp0622]

I cut my fingernails and shaved this morning!!

Amazing how a lousy handful of hair can cause that much irritation.

I look like a (overweight) mad scientist because I needed a haircut Badly Before the quarantine.

but at least I’m a clean shaven one now :)

Oh, and that pound and a half of salami that was supposed to last for a week...er...um...back to shoprite!

[Cedar]

There was a time when people didn’t need to be told such common-sense things as this.

[2banana]

Practice yelling “Get off my lawn!”

[Socon-Econ]

What we need are tips on how to convince our lawmakers to end this hysteria, not tips on how to get the best out of our house arrest.

[Mr. Jeeves]

And FR is to take advice from a man who admits to panic attacks, recommends counseling, and speaks admiringly of Barack Obama? :)

I think most conservatives know how to handle being by ourselves - for we so often are.

[Alberta's Child]

Some of us haven’t altered our routines one bit, even if it means open defiance of any stupid government restrictions that are imposed on us.

[MayflowerMadam]

“I think most conservatives know how to handle being by ourselves - for we so often are.”

Really. As we’re retired, social distancing is pretty much how we’ve lived our lives for the last 10 years. I do miss going to restaurants once in a while, though. May have to hit a drive-through one of these days.

[Leep]

I was a self isolating semi-germaphobe before it was cool to be one. The difference was it was my own choice and not mandated by the government. Excuse me! Where do you think you are going?

[goodnesswins]

Yes...When he got to Obama’s routine of all work...stopped reading

[P.O.E.]

Soon as they start with the anecdotal reverie, I say to myself - another lib. Sure enough, it took until the “Barack Obama was always working” fantasy, I hung up the phone.

[Cboldt]

-- Restricting the movement of sick people is called quarantine. --

Technically, that is isolation.

Quarantine is restricting the movement of unknown. Happens all the time with produce, pets. Used to happen with people too. Immigrants, mostly.

What we're doing is mixing the leper colony with the healthy. The leprosy will spread, guaranteed.

[microgeek42]

There’s something to be said for accepting one’s circumstances. Do we have to fight against everything?

[Brian Griffin]

See my home page for many coronavirus related suggestions.

They include a low-carbohydrate diet and keeping one’s mouth clean when sick.

I’ve got sniffles again today - no sugar in my tea and my brownies are in my refrigerator.

[Brian Griffin]

I’ve told my 70-year old neighbors to stay home.

I estimate most new infections are coming from grocery shopping.