grahamg
Old codger
- Location
- South of Manchester, UK
In an Irish newspaper recently three young women were asked to give their views on the lockdown (well there were four, but one was just about online shopping retail therapy really).
One said she'd worked from home for a long time, so felt equipped to cope well, and another I identified most with, said she'd made all kinds of plans and then not kept yo them, so was resolved not to make too many plans.
The last one, called Katie Byrne seems to think she's got us all figured out and can yell us the "inevitable" consequences, or stages we'll all go through. Here briefly are the seven stages she's identified, with my paraphrased explanations of the meanings of each, where necessary:
1). The obsession phase (where we try to learn about the infection).
2). The reconnection phase (we realise our shared humanity).
3). The reinvention stage (we try to find ways to fill our downtime).
4). The disillusion stage (it takes a week to realise "time is a construct", and get lost in it).
5). The baking stage (you bake cakes or bread apparently?).
6). The dangerously bored stage (don't cut your own hair, or stick magnets up your nose!).
7). The meltdown stage (there's a comfort in knowing you didn't stock magnets up your nose).
I'm beginning to think she's not being entirely serious here(?). If she isn't I'm a four, and some way off a five.
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One said she'd worked from home for a long time, so felt equipped to cope well, and another I identified most with, said she'd made all kinds of plans and then not kept yo them, so was resolved not to make too many plans.
The last one, called Katie Byrne seems to think she's got us all figured out and can yell us the "inevitable" consequences, or stages we'll all go through. Here briefly are the seven stages she's identified, with my paraphrased explanations of the meanings of each, where necessary:
1). The obsession phase (where we try to learn about the infection).
2). The reconnection phase (we realise our shared humanity).
3). The reinvention stage (we try to find ways to fill our downtime).
4). The disillusion stage (it takes a week to realise "time is a construct", and get lost in it).
5). The baking stage (you bake cakes or bread apparently?).
6). The dangerously bored stage (don't cut your own hair, or stick magnets up your nose!).
7). The meltdown stage (there's a comfort in knowing you didn't stock magnets up your nose).
I'm beginning to think she's not being entirely serious here(?). If she isn't I'm a four, and some way off a five.
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