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Hey there, it's Ronnie coming at you.
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We're all going through some difficult times right now with our situations.
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We have to be careful.
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Please help each other out, love each other.
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Do what you can to help people.
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I want to help you.
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I want to help you through these difficult times and give you some positive energy to
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help you, some suggestions, some ideas about doing fun things.
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So, how's the quarantine changed your life or society?
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Of course, there's the bad, but let's look at some things.
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Working at home.
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So, a lot of people have started to work from home.
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If you have a job, perfect.
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Thank you!
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We're very lucky to have jobs.
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People have lost many jobs and wow.
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Crazy.
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But if you are lucky enough to work from home, you're going to have some advantages.
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You get to wake up later!
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So, before, you had to wake up early, get the coffee in you.
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Drink your coffee or your tea.
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You had to take a shower, you had to change into your nice work clothes and you had to
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commute, okay?
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Commute means your driving or your transportation time from your house to your job.
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Hey, if you work from home, there's no commute.
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You have to get from your bed to your computer desk.
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What, two seconds, maybe five?
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Maybe two minutes if you've got to go down some stairs.
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So, you wake up later, there's no commute to the office - yes!
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Because of all this, there also seems to be less traffic in the cities.
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And interestingly enough, in some places, there's even less pollution because we're
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driving less cars.
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That's good.
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Let's save the earth.
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What about offices, what about businesses?
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So, businesses, of course, are losing money because they can't open.
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But if you work from home and you're a business owner, you don't actually have to rent an
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office space.
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You don't have to pay people to buy computers for everyone.
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They have their own computer.
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You can potentially save a lot of money for your business if you play your cards right,
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that is.
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Hey, guess what?
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You can do new things.
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You can start something new that you've never done before, but you've always wanted to.
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Let's say that you're like, "Wow, you know.
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I was working, my commute was two hours, and I never had time to bird watch."
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Well, guess what?
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Now you have the time to bird watch, you can do it.
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You can't go shopping, okay?
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Ronnie's allergic to malls, okay?
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I hate malls, I hate shopping.
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And for me, I'm just like "Yes!
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Nobody can go shopping."
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So hey, are you saving money?
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Look at you.
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You can't go shopping, you can't buy things you probably don't need, so you can save money.
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You can learn something.
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You can take a new course; you can get a new career.
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You can make yourself a better person somehow.
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You can take yoga; you can do lots of amazing things because you have more time.
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If you want to learn English, you can watch www.engvid.com . You can read a book.
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You can do so many different things.
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You can take lessons with me!
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You can also try something that you've never done before.
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Maybe like, do you know what?
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I really, really want to try to be an acrobat.
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So, you can go online, you can order all the props that you want to be an acrobat and try
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that out.
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I didn't try that.
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I don't think being an acrobat is something that I would personally like to do.
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I wouldn't mind maybe learning how to find medicinal herbs or something, but acrobat,
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to me, not interesting.
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But everyone's different.
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What do you want to do?
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What's something that you're like, "Oh wow, I want to do this."
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Guess what, do it, try it!
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You never know, you might like it.
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The thing that I really, really, really, really, really think is amazing, and I've seen this,
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is people are actually maybe beginning to respect other humans.
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And this, to me, wow.
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It's just so much amazing energy.
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They call it physical distancing, but I call it personal space, because usually when you
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stand in the lineup - and I do this as a human experiment - if I take one step forward, the
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person behind me takes one step forward.
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I don't like people around me.
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It annoys me.
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People are - I can hear them breathing, I'm just like, "Get away from me."
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So, I have a problem with people standing very close to me.
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This is even since I was 16 years old.
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I just don't like having my personal space invaded.
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Hey, we have a personal distancing thing now.
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Please respect it.
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Hey, six feet, perfect!
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Please stay six feet away from me.
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Hey, this is cool.
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Hey, how you doing?
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Give me a virtual hug, give me a virtual kiss.
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Love it.
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But I see this and I'm happy.
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I'm like, "Yes, more freedom.
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Move my arms around."
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We have these things called neighbors.
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Did you know your neighbor before this?
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I see a lot of people talking to their neighbors now.
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I see, ah, this is cool.
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I see people taking some lawn chairs out on their driveway and their neighbors come over
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and they keep six feet away and they have a couple of beers and they talk.
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It seems like people are respecting humans more.
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They're talking to other people and getting to know people again because our society is
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people just staring at phones.
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This needs to stop.
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So, hey.
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Oh, there's a human, let's talk to it and have fun.
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Maybe you can learn something from them.
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Workers.
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Front line workers, people doing their jobs to help us.
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There's been amazing amount of respect for people that most people take for granted.
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Cleaners, cooks, people working in hospitals that aren't doctors and nurses, everyone who
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is still working outside of home.
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Doesn't have the luxury to stay home and work from home.
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These people need our congratulations, our respect.
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Thanks guys, like amazing, thank you.
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So, we have to look at the human factor of things.
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We have to go, "Hey, these people are working hard for us, and they're - without them, we'd
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be nothing."
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And, of course, our elderly people.
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This is affected a lot of elderly people, it's no joke.
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But I see stores opening earlier so that people can come in earlier and get what they need.
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They can get the hand sanitizers; they can get the masks before all these crazy people
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take them all.
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So, what I see is the beginning of a respect for the humans.
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Oh, I'm may be one, too.
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But I like this.
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And I think that this should continue and should never have stopped.
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So, again, through all these hard times, please respect people.
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Please try, try something new.
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Learn English, www.engvid.com , have fun, enjoy.
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Think positively, until then, I'm Ronnie.
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Keep well.