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Jim Cejka
It’s hard sometimes to understand why people are having such a hard time with this “shelter-in-place’ stuff. I mean, it’s not like isolation or solitary confinement. In our days, isolation was really isolated; when you were sent to your room, you were really confined. About the only thing you could do was do your homework (of course) or talk to yourself.
Now, there’s always something or someone to talk to. Besides our Dick Tracy-like phones where we can see and talk to someone outside, we’ve got all these other things that can amuse and take care of you.
You can tell your TV what to put on, ask your car for directions, tell your oven to get hot, or ask one of those little box things any question, or tell it to do something you’re too lazy to do. I even saw a commercial where a guy was telling his kitchen faucet how much water he needed for his cup. And we’re supposed to be feeling lonesome, without human contact? Human maybe, but you can walk just about anyplace in your house, talking out loud, and get a polite human voice response and obedience to your commands. Try that with real humans (e.g., your kids, co-workers, etc.).
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