\u2018Humor offers certain emotional and mental benefits, such as establishing relationships, relieving anxiety, releasing anger in a socially acceptable way, decreasing depression and loneliness and increasing self-esteem, as well as physical benefits like increasing pain tolerance, improving respiration and breathing and exercising facial, abdominal and chest muscles, leading to reduced muscle tension.\u00a0 Humor can undo physical effects of negative emotions like fear, anger or sadness\u2019.<\/em><\/p>\n So, as my contribution to this whole ‘thing’ going on, I\u2019m sharing what I think are humorous quotes and cartoons about the pandemic as well as some observations about life today.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Half of us . . .<\/p>\n Feeling better yet?<\/p>\n I’m putting a drink in every room in my house and calling it a pub crawl<\/p>\n Abort, abort abort! Re-route to 1999 when all we had to worry about was cheesy boy bands!<\/p>\n You know things are different when you work at a bank and two guys with masks come in, but they’re just robbing the place<\/p>\n Hope you got a few chuckles; it’s OK if you didn’t, I’m still going to feel like I contributed something to getting through the pandemic!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Bob Sparrow \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u201cWhen you lose your power to laugh, you lose your power to think straight.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 … read more![\"\"](\"https:\/\/fromabirdseyeview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/4-working-from-home-300x295.png\")
<\/a>I am not an immunologist or a doctor of any kind, I\u2019m not a health worker of any kind either, and have really done nothing to help get us through this pandemic, except get my shots, which was mostly helping me.\u00a0 So, I felt worthless in terms of my contribution to society, until I read Karine Bengualid\u2019s article on Copyhackers <\/em><\/strong>about the power of laughter during the pandemic; I quote:<\/p>\n\n
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