Have you ever looked forward to jury duty? Have you volunteered in the past year? Have you talked to your neighbor recently? Have you voted in every local, state, and national election since you were eligible? Do you know who your local representatives are?

I did not spend hours watching back to back episodes of Game of Thrones AND Veep for NOTHING. Let’s put that (tragic) investment to some use shall we.

"we are threatening to become a nation of nonvoters who aggressively seek to keep willing fellow citizens from voting”

At 21, quarantine has led me to a place I never thought I would be, the self-help aisle. Well, as close as you can get on Amazon.

But as informed citizens I think it is crucial to understand and think about the real ethical challenges of the pandemic. If it was the life of a family member or dear friend or even yours at stake, how would you want to be treated?

If you read the title of this article and shouted affirmations, you wouldn’t be wrong.

Hobbes is certain that a commonwealth will suffice to free man from the bondage of battle. Yet is this confidence well founded? Is formalized society really so freeing?

I am finding the lightness of being utterly unbearable, and you?