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A Six-Word Contest for Gumshoers To Express Their Feelings about Covid

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Six-word photo caption: “This picture designed to SCARE YOU” (gumshoe adaption)  Thai Airways crew  disinfecting the cabin and empty Californian street in March 2020 

by Mary W Maxwell, LLB

On September 11th – yes, that day – in 2020, Larry Smith, of the New York Times’ Op-ed page, invited people to write their impression of the Covid experience, succinctly. He called it “The Pandemic in Six-word Memoirs.”

On September 21, 2020, Rachel Harris and Lisa Tarchak wrote an article at the NYT, showing off many of the memoirs. Many are indeed clever and some are touching.  I will print 20 of them below.

GumshoeNews editor Dee McLachlan and I heartly invite your entries. (More than one permitted.) There will be a prize. The contest ends on October 5, 2020, or the day the next world war begins, whichever comes first. Dee will appoint someone as The Decider.

If you feel you need privacy, you may email your entry to McLachlanDee@gmail.com, being sure to write “My Memoir” in the subject line. Tell her what pen name you want to use.

No criteria for judging. But it does have to be 6 words. And if it has a Gumshoe flavor, well, that’s nice.

By the way, you may wish to take a rough stab at your entry, before reading what others sent in to the NYT.

Examples

I always wanted a small wedding.
— Samantha Kohn, Canada

What to wear to the mailbox?
— Sunny Conley, Arizona

Left house. Forgot mask. Turned around.
— Max4, Philadelphia

Zooming through life. Getting nowhere fast.
— Shelly Shalev, Israel

Same earrings, six months. Why change?
— Mary Roberts, Pacific Grove, Calif.

Aging in place. Goodbye footloose retirement.
— Cheryl Roosevelt Volmert, Denver

My dad’s last breath, on FaceTime.
— Bob Kirkman, Atlanta

Yesterday, I’d give you a ride.
— Thomas Stroud, Overland Park, Kan.

Protect grandparents. Save an endangered species.
— Francine Hall, Exeter, N.H.

I’m a cave dweller with Zoom.
— Barbara Moss

Learning to smile with my eyes.
— Boni Fine, Chicago

For sale: spring workwear, never worn.
— Mikell Taylor, Boston

Grand opening canceled. Building for sale.
— Shari Jarvis, Winona, Minn.

My world today was unimaginable yesterday.
— Madelyn Weiss, Berkeley, Calif.

My physical world: limited. Thoughts: expansive.
— ANetliner, Washington, D.C.

Graduated college in my living room.
— Emma Garcia

Stayed in, needed less, valued more.
— Observer of the Zeitgeist, Middle America

I now understand my indoor cat.
— David Hirschberg, Medford, Mass.

Twenty twenty, the year of invisibility.
— Bonnie S. Priever, Los Angeles

I have misplaced my last marble.
— Alice LaPoint, Florida

 

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  1. OFF-TOPIC: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-09-27/victoria-dan-andrews-unveils-melbourne-coronavirus-restrictions/12708002.

    Fresh on the heels of the pedophile Netflix film “Cuties” I happen upon this ABC photo normalising the pedophile gaze. The ABC, Pizzagate deniers and Clinton worshippers but arch enemies of anything Christian, e.g. Cardinal Pell. .

    Note how the five barely pre-pubescent girls in this shot from above have their naked legs in focus but the viewer cannot see their faces. Hence a kiddy-fiddler anonymous meat rack, no?

    But problematic in celebrating this Intergenerational Romance for Minor-Attracted Persons ( pederasts), as the ABC SJWs would say, is that none of the girls passes the diversity test.

    Because they all seem to be white supremacists:-))

    Any day now I will see the first article on the ABC website aimed at liberating such girls from their oppression, or do I mean oppressing, as they are White after all, oh Critical Race Theory is so intersectionally confusing:)))

    • You could be right about the photo, Duns. The photographer is Tim Swanton of ABC — was he standing on a ladder? Or using a drone? Could be innocent, though.

      I have seen one by ANZ bank that is defo not innocent.

  2. C=Coordination, O=of, R=radical, O=official, N= nitwits, A=affiliation. Spells Corona

    So Michelle Loielo intends to stand as a liberal candidate in next election “to make the curfews illegal”. Two points: One, is she so stupid to not know that Scott Morrison the Prime Minister, who is behind “Dopey Dan” is a Liberal Party member? Two, does she not know that it is already not legal.

    Best you read and take notice of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia before you nominate to be a politician. Oh, I forgot, it is a requirement of both major Parties that all candidates be ignorant of that parchment.

    The ABC announcement in Duns Scotus’ internet address, does not in fact realistically lift Victoria out of restrictions, if you read all the way through the announcement. This is another lie by the ABC and Dan Andrews. Seems that Andrews views Victoria as a country separate from Australia where he can do as he likes, when he likes and the dozy Victorians are allowing him to proceed in his “wet dream” illusion.

  3. One of our readers and excellent researcher asked me to post these (WOW!!!!):

    Gone are the good ole days

    The Wizard of Oz is hiding

    My wildest dreams I never imagined…

    Social detention is here to stay

    Pseudo science replaces real science now

    Its now topsy turvy for us

    Everything has been turned upside down

    Positive is negative black is white

    I knew it was coming eventually

    Where do we go from here?

    What does the future hold now?

    Our future is not in the stars

    It’s an illegal corporate-government entity

    They have over-ruled our permission

    Government has severely breached our contract

    Sedition and treason has taken control

    Its a hostile corporate communist takeover

    We are not the ‘lucky’ country

    Our status will be third world

    Megalomaniacs are in control for now

    How brave Australians are is questionable

    We are truly Down Under now!

    Where is our hero for real?

    Corporations have been masquerading as government

    Clever to pit humans against humans

    They have created suspicion among ourselves

  4. more:

    We are all now the battlers

    Where is the UK assistance now?

    Where are our true allies now?

    Fiction meets science is not accepted

    Speak up or forever hold silent

    Stop complaining and defend your country

  5. Still on topic with the six-word contest we have this.

    Social Distancing Done the Japanese Way :

    The caption below the video reads ‘In Japan, people are required to remain at least six atomic units away from strangers. And crowd size is limited by how hard the police can push.’

    Japan, a country that had next to no lockdown (all schools open, business as usual for the vast majority of the country), and quite a ‘liberal’ interpretation of social distancing (as per the video above), has less than half the Covid fatalities per million population that we have here in Oz.

    Funny that.

  6. BRAIN FART
    Donald Trump floated the idea of using ultraviolet light inside the human body or a disinfectant by “injection” as a treatment for coronavirus at his press briefing, a suggestion doctors called “dangerous.”
    “I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning? Because you see it gets in the lungs, and it does a tremendous number on the lungs. So it would be interesting to check that,” he said.
    NASAL SPRAY
    https://www.afr.com/companies/healthcare-and-fitness/nasal-spray-cuts-covid-19-growth-study-shows-20200925-p55z8y
    (INTRO)
    A novel nasal treatment developed to boost the human immune system to fight common colds and flu has proved successful in reducing COVID-19 viral growth in a recent animal study.
    This is a significant development as the world races to find a solution to halt COVID-19 transmission and infection.
    Ena Respiratory managing director Christophe Demaison says phase-one human trials with the nasal spray could take place in about four months in Australia.
    The spray product, dubbed INNA-051, is being developed by Australian biotech Ena Respiratory.
    In a gold-standard study on ferrets, it reduced virus levels by up to 96 per cent in the animals’ noses and throats.

      • If anyone on the planet missed it, “Trump injecting disinfectant” was the MSM news cycle for about a month, but now it is coming true. At the time, we thought some kind of vaping was a possiblity. The disinfectant is good because the sniffer dogs can catch virus and they have very big nasal areas. As well, paranoid people can use as much as they want.
        I have a nasal saline spray thing for sneezing during pollen season, it’s very effective. You just refill it every year with saline.

  7. Too True–Unless you reclaim your life and draw a line in the sand.

    Pulse of the people–2nd of October
    8am New York Ipm London 10pm Brisbane
    4 Hour live stream event

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