Hello, I hope that your week has been good. I'm here with more signs related
to the current situation. Again, thank you for your questions. Today's video focuses
on staying home and keeping groups physically separated, and those terms.
If you missed last week, I showed signs related to "virus" and "pandemic" and so on.
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People try to help how? By staying home.
STAY
It's the "Y" handshape with the palm facing down. It's not up, it's down: STAY.
STAY
HOME
STAY HOME
SOCIAL DISTANCING
SOCIAL, or SOCIALIZE
"distancing" -- SEPARATE. SEPARATION.
Better may be: PHYSICAL separation.
With the "P" handshape: PHYSICAL.
PHYSICAL
PHYSICAL, or PHYSICAL like this -- means BODY.
So either PHYSICAL or PHYSICAL DISTANCING.
Or third: You can use your index fingers to show
separation. So this represents a person, one here and one all the way over there.
Again: "Social distancing", or maybe "physical distancing".
SELF ISOLATION
SELF ISOLATE
So again, the sign MYSELF
MYSELF
SELF
ISOLATE
It's like that's the roof of your house,
and the index finger is a person staying under it.
ISOLATE or ISOLATION.
Also, you may see it with an "I" handshape --
the pinky: ISOLATE or ISOLATED,
ISOLATION.
Either the pinky or index finger.
SELF-ISOLATION meaning that you voluntarily will be self isolating.
That sign, you can change the movement from *self* isolate meaning *me* -- at *my* body.
But maybe a *different* person self isolates.
SELF ISOLATE
So again: SELF -- not at me, at them. self...
That person, maybe my friend, she is SELF -- same handshape, SELF ISOLATING.
SELF ISOLATING.
QUARANTINE
QUARANTINE.
That word "quarantine" can be signed like this:
The "2" handshapes, palms inward towards yourself,
in the "V" handshape, and then the fingers come together.
QUARANTINE
You also may see during conversation, if there is no context, you
might fingerspell it the first time, "quarantine", and then show the sign.
You also... I've seen it also signed like this,
where you show one person or perhaps a group,
and then the other "C" handshape shows that they are separated
QUARANTINE
QUARANTINE. The word QUARANTINE means what? Someone that you know to be sick,
and they must say separated. QUARANTINE.
It's different from self-isolation, which means again that you think maybe you've
been exposed, so you have to be careful and decide that you will isolate yourself.
QUARANTINE. SELF-ISOLATION.
INTERNET.
The middle fingers are down, and touching, and the hands twist alternating.
INTERNET
INTERNET helps people stay connected!
You can't physically socialize in the same room
right now, but maybe you can still establish connection.
Anyway I hope that that helped you learn a few signs related to the current situation. If you
have other words you want to learn, let me know -- comment please, and let me know.
I'll be back for more signs soon. Bye! Thank you, and please stay home, continue
to feel well. Take care of yourselves.