Who decides what was doesn’t work for you anymore? Below are four terms that increase anxiety, depression, and fear. In my opinion these need to be removed from the English language.

Social distancing. There’s no such thing as social distancing. Humans are social beings. It’s hard to be social when one is forced to stay at home, so it’s sort of an oxymoron. The proper name is social phobia, and it’s promoted as living in fear of your neighbor. Fearfully, we are told to stay 6 feet apart in the grocery store from others, and we even need to stay 6 feet apart from our partner for heaven’s sake. Seriously, I heard this on the loudspeaker last week, promoting fear from being with your partner! To me, it feels like itchy skin. When my skin itches, my brain asks, what did I just eat? In this sense, I was fed false information. The takeaway, prescriptions for anxiety medications have increased in the last two months.

Be safe. Implying you can’t take good care of yourself, or be responsible for yourself. This just demeans adult behavior and implies you don’t have any common sense. Don’t trust your decisions under uncertain times. The takeaway, we become painfully stressed-out. Feels like localized scleroderma of the skin. Don’t get any sunshine unless THEY say it is safe. Nonetheless, we haven’t yet surrendered to an illness that has proven to be low risk. We’ve realized though, that politics is mishandling the care and blame for a virus in the time of crisis, as we question reality.

The new normal. Just the sound of these words is crazy-making. It is a mind-boggling, feather-fluffing term. The bigger picture is suspending our rights. We are told what is essential and what is non-essential. First of all, there is no such thing as normal, and there is no such thing as a new normal. What is normal or essential for one, it’s not normal or essential for another. We have forced-closure of mom and pop shops while big box stores remain open and untouched. We have signs to follow, and more chemicals spewing into the air we breathe. The ‘new normal’ orders include: follow the arrows on the floor (like imbeciles), spray disinfectants, cleanse countertops with Clorox wipes, use toxic hand sanitizers three or more times a day (leaching synthetic chemicals), enclose clerks with silicone/plastic shields, wear a mask (that doesn’t kill germs), and make sure vacations and checking accounts come with many restrictions. Coming full circle this trauma can be viewed as ringworm. Do not go anywhere in your circle unless you use  their technology to pollute the air in your home, your friends home, and in the shops you frequent. Pollution not only harms and kills ecosystems, trees, oceans, waterways, and the beauty Mother Earth provides, it destroys microbiomes and organs, most importantly, our gut, lungs, liver, kidneys, and brain. Not one of these extremely arrogant and tyrant ‘new normal’ commands builds immunity or prevents disease. The takeaway, we see increased cases of cognitive decline.

Do the right thing. This term can be confused with expressing emotional intelligence. Maybe you can spend more time with your children, get rid of that disgusting moldy furniture, be kind, or eat more greens. This is not the case, however. Do the right thing is a social force trying to change our beliefs. Conform to the medical invasion of privacy if you want to travel or frequent a day spa. Get your temperature taken or get a nasopharyngeal swab. It doesn’t matter which. It seems unelected billionaires have connections to PhRMA, such as Zuckerberg and Gates. We are now made to believe medicine is the answer to all our woes. The takeaway, if we don’t learn from our mistakes, our pimples will come back to the same place we picked them out from last month, unless we ‘do the right thing’.

Connie Rogers  is the author of Memory Stealers