Issac Newton didn't have kids home from school, and didn't need to attend Zoom meetings.
Indeed. But you still have a job and you are (hopefully) healthy. Think about it for a second. It could be much worse.
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#12Very inspiring, with a twist. Thank you!
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#13Eh, some of us just have to keep working. No time to work on our magnum opus, because we're trying to remain productive in the ersatz offices we've cobbled together at home.
Some of us are stay at home parents.
I was just explaining to someone that I have to be: a parent, a teacher, an engineer and a husband. I feel I am doing all of them equally badly sigh
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#14Or you know, just try to make it through to the other side in a reasonably calm manner. That's fine too.
That’s what the post is talking about.
We have…different interpretations of Annus mirabilis, the year of wonders, that is the name of this period in which calculus, law of gravitation, the color spectrum, these discoveries changed the world forever. and Let's all become Isaac Newton this month.
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#15Issac Newton didn't have kids home from school, and didn't need to attend Zoom meetings.
Indeed. But you still have a job and you are (hopefully) healthy. Think about it for a second. It could be much worse.
I'm just saying I don't like the pressure of having to compare myself to Issac Newton.
Also everything could always be worse, so it's a mostly useless argument.
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#16Sounds like a pretty privilege take by people like us that still have jobs.
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#17Or...if you still have to work, then find a way to help a furloughed person be Newton for a month. Maybe a spouse or your kids. Maybe a stranger (from six feet away). Doesn't matter.
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#18I wish I had time for any of that. I keep reading ideas for how to deal with the boredom of self-isolation, but nobody writes about the stress. My wife and I have to homeschool two kids while also doing our own jobs from home. We're lucky of course that we have jobs, and we can do them from home, and we have two awesome and healthy kids. But homeschooling while we work really is a bit much.
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#19In an alternate reality, Newton did five pull-ups instead of inventing calculus.
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#20Honestly? Fuck this. Millions of people are going to die. It's very likely some of your friends and family will be in that number. It's okay to mourn. It's expected that we will all mourn. The world we get out of this is going to be different and it's going to be a worse one for almost everyone.
You don't need to write King Lear or invent gravity. Just surviving will be a miracle enough.