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How to Add #Loveisnottourism banner to your Social media profile pictures!

Paul

Social Media

It’s effeminately a very powerful to tool to use to make governments see us and hear our pleas and demands.   Everyone has learned that over the years.   Yet I look on some of the social media sites and don’t see the profile picture being changed.   I ask myself why didn’t they change their profile picture?  I can only assume some people don’t understand that your profile picture even on FB can make a tremendous impact in what someone or everyone see’s about you.   They rarely visit your profile and check for updates.   This can be a good or bad thing depending on how you want people to per-sieve you.   If you are a business or have a business and use your social media to promote your business.   I can see why it will look a certain way.   Yet we loose the value of ourselves when we don’t make our profile more pronounced when it comes to our loved ones.

International Travel

On my previous post I talk about all the travel bans and where you could look to find out information about  what might be required of if you could get into the nationality.   The next problem we are dealt with is that we need to make sure every government hears our desires, and wants, and not be able to keep us quite!

Setting your Picture profile up!

Now that you’ve decided to change your profile picture you have a few options to add a small text around or in your picture profile to make sure people better know what it is you are wanting them to see.   Here’s a few options:

First Option:

You can go to Love Is Essential website and upload your profile you want to use and they will gladly put a text in your picture with “Love is not Tourism” banner.  See below for example of what it might look like.

Second Option:

I used Facebook and uploaded a picture and Told Facebook to add a Frame to it.   I searched for “Love is Not Tourism“.   Then I added that frame to my Profile Picture and Your done with that part.   Now if you want to use that frame with other sites such as Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, or any other social media just download the picture by right clicking on your profile picture and save image to device or Desktop.   You’ll need to view your Facebook profile picture and then you can easily grab it.   I personally like this one better because it doesn’t obscure your picture but people can see your profile picture.

Third Option

This option is for those who don’t have Facebook or wants to make it even personalized.   You can smartphone apps like Snapseed or other Picture edition apps for your phone device.  You can add your personal messages to any photo then upload them to all your social networks.   This way everyone can see your text and know that you are wanting your local governments to know where you stand on this issue.

Finally,  If you do this it will help your cause because maybe one of the important people on Facebook, or even some other social network will see it and put pressure on the governments to allow loved ones into the country.

If you enjoyed this post please feel free to share it with others and encourage them to update their profile pictures and support our cause!

International Travel Bans due to Covid 19(Sars-Cov-2)!

Paul
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It’s Globally

We’ve all been frantically checking to see when we’ll be able to travel to see our Fiances, boyfriend, Girlfriend, or that Significant other! It’s been a mad house for us all! I’ll say it is hasn’t been easy since most places went on lock down March or April this year (2020). Thanks to Covid-19 we’ve all had to be by ourselves and that isn’t normal or right.

Where to Go?

Are you asking this to find out if you can go see your other half or just so you know if they can come see you? Either way the point of this post to help you find out which sites might be able to help you find out that information. Each government has their own regulation and requirements or are just not allowing foreigners to come into the country. This is all due to the over whelming need to keep the virus from getting out of hand. There are several resources you can use to find out if you can travel in the first place. I like to at least try to help those who might want to know keep track of the current world wide situation and if you can travel to a particular country and back!

I’ll be frank this won’t be a very long post because I just want to make sure you know where you can go to find out if you can travel and what you might have to do. The rest is up to you on how you do it. I strongly recommend going to each governments websites and see what they are allowing to come into their country and what they require to be able to get into it. Some are requiring 14 days of quarantine and others are requiring PCR (Up the nose) and IGGM (Checking to see if you been in contact with anyone who has had covid19) blood test! Either way it will be uncomfortable for you!

Let’s Start!

We will now talk about where you could go to answer all your questions on this:

  • International Air Travel Association (IATA) — Has a great website to see which countries are allowing you to travel to and from. It however doesn’t exactly tell you what is required to get into that country!
  • CDC (Center for Disease Control and Prevention) — Has a good Travel Notices for those who worry about getting the virus while travelling. You can weigh it down to how much you might be at risk when travelling.
  • The World Tourism Organization — Keeps up to date what they know. This is almost a blog type of publishing. They publish new stuff every few weeks or when a countries come out of or goes into lock down. It however has limited amount of information but still good to check!

These are about all I could find and as such should at least start your journey and keep you updated on when you might be able to fly. If you are looking to get tickets to fly, Why not save some money and follow my tips on getting the cheapest plane tickets!

Remember to share this post with others so they can find out more ways to keep up to date on travel bans and when you might be able to fly again. Remember we are all in this together!

#LoveisNot Tourism

Masks Everywhere : Is this a new Normal?

Paul
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People are all about!

As states start to loosen their standards for people to go out and about. It has been a quite a different sight to see. We’ve seen critics speak out about herd immunity and how this will cause problems. There are many experts to novices that will talk about what herd immunity is but are they right? We can all have our own opinions about the subject but the truth of the matter is a simple one that we will never truly know how well it will work in the future.

Isolation

We’ve been in isolation for almost 2 months and I am sure everyone is just giddy to get out of the house and enjoy the outside with the sunshine. I know I am ready to enjoy the summer and get out of this self isolation. Has the self isolation stopped the virus? The answer is an emphatic no. It was never designed to stop it just slow the spread down. Just lately we’ve heard that China is starting to lock down cities again. Will that happen to the US or other countries? I’m hopefully that it will not slow or stop the economy again.

Inevitability

Is it inevitable?  is useless to wait for it to become the new normal? We’ve been hearing that term for a few weeks.   The new normal, is all around the media being talking about.   Should we listen to them talking about it and accepting it.   I don’t know about the rest of the population but I am not going to accept this new normal and I am ready for the old normal to come back.   Will it?  I don’t know but I am hopeful that the old normal.   Are you planing to accept the new normal or do you want the old normal back?  Leave a comment what you want to happen?  I’d love to hear your opinions on this!

Why self isolation will change your life and your job!

Paul
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Jobs are at a Stand still

If you haven’t been paying attention with the current state of the Corona Virus pandemic than you really should.   Most Americans have been off their jobs and the unemployment is the highest it has been in centuries.   I say that with great trepidation because my thoughts are on the economics of this this and when is it too much to force Americans to stay home?   We can ask that question from the individual personal views but we should also ask that from the population?   When do we consider the ramifications of the whole situation?   Most Americans aren’t making that much money from work and surviving from paycheck to paycheck.   This is the problem with the current situation when people can’t really afford to be off work for such a long time and not making the money they are used to be making from work.   Unemployment probably isn’t paying anywhere the amount most people actually get from working.

Work from home is on the rise

Ever since the self isolation and keeping people home companies have instituted working from home.   The goal of this was to keep people working and for the company to still make money.   We have seen a lot of people working at home more and that is where it will probably change.  The question that I am thinking is will the work?  Will they keep this up when we get back to work?  Will the companies allow people to work more from home?  I can only suspect that companies will do this as a greater experiment and try to see what will work and what will not.   We also have to consider just how well this will work and what will happen to our economy when all this is over with.   Will we be bouncing back or will we have even more jobs open up due to the current pandemic?

Your job will change!

The truth of the matter is that most Americans will have a job change in the coming weeks to probably months.   A lot of companies will want to change people titles or even shut down all the way.  I’ve already started seeing companies such as Lone Star Restaurant declaring bankruptcy due to not being able to serve their customers.  I’ve watched how companies have already started to implement this into their own situations and I am sure we will see even more companies shut down permanently and I am sure we will see an explosion people out of work.  This is my real fear right now that the we are being forced to go into a recession due to this pandemic.   I am sure it’s a really fear for most Americans and other nations also.   We will all see this change coming in the coming months and maybe even next year.   People’s lives will change in one way or another.  Wee will not be back to the normalcy we are used to for quite some time.

Economics is strange!

With all that is going on we will see the economic atmosphere change in the many aspects from our personal lives to how we interact with other individual.   We will see it change in how we will deal with our family members and our love lives.   In every way we will see this pandemic change our lives and how we will end up in the new normal.   We will see this for years to come and even then the new normal will be hard for most people.   It will not be the same and we must accept that fact and move forward and try to make it the best we can.

 

Day 9 – Keeping sanity at home

Paul
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Routines

I can say so much about the day to day routines that I go through to keep my sanity. You get up and check your email and then you start to figure out what you will be eating in the morning. Each day you are trying to find something to keep you busy while you wait the day out. Covid-19 seems to bring out the dread and fear. I still say you shouldn’t fear the pandemic but listen to what is recommended.  Washing your hands and keeping away 6 feet seems to be the CDC recommendations for the time being, least we should also be socially distant.   We are social animals and I know we have a really hard time doing that.   I’ve read stories about that and know from first hand about people not listening and staying away 6 feet.  It seems there is a debate on whether this is foolish pandemic or a much needed change!

News Media

The News media still seems to be foolishly trying to scare people and make their best known fear around the world.   I still think that this pandemic will show us just how much the media controls the information and what we actually see or hear about this Covid-19.   In the USA, Trump extends social distancing until April 30th , So we might just be in isolation for another month at least!   The curve of this virus has not even peaked and we have yet to see a downward climb of the end.   It could be weeks or months before we are back to our normal routines.

Peoples lives at risk!

With people not working, or trying to provide for there family, where is the end of this. There has to be some kind of give and take about people working and surviving this problematic issue.   We all just can’t stay home and veg out.   We are should always be willing to work and overcome this virus and show people just how much we value our work ethic.   Are you worried about being evicted or how you feed yourselves and family in the coming weeks?  Why not comment and tell me your thoughts and fears and lets start a conversation about this and others.   We can be socially distance and still have a really good discussion about this and others topics!