Put your tape measure away. There are other ways to enforce that six-foot safe zone that keeps the coronavirus from reaching from the other person to you. CNN has put together a list of effective–yet fun–ways to determine what six feet actually is. We need this information, of course, but equally important is that we need this bit of levity. Go to https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/24/health/six-feet-social-distance-explainer-coronavirus-wellness/index.html
Does this picture disturb you?
Yes, that’s a bird stuffed into a bottle. Worse yet, it’s an endangered (only 7000 left in the world) cockatoo. In Indonesia, these birds are sedated and stuffed into plastic bottles so they can easily be shipped to waiting customers.
Indonesia does have laws against this practice, laws which aren’t enforced. And, true, we live far away and feel we have no influence over the Indonesian government. However, their politicians are like ours; with enough pressure they’ll do something if not because it’s right at least in order to save face in the world and their jobs at home.
Help put on that pressure. Read the report from CNN, then sign Change.org’s petition that demands harsher penalties for traffickers in bottled birds.