Hello everyone, my name is Chris Gorges and as of this recording is the evening
of March 16th 2020, and things have been pretty crazy the past few days
the corona virus has really spread far and wide schools have been shut down
colleges are shut down so far in the United States any gatherings and
conventions and meetings of medium or large sized groups have all been
canceled or postponed and just as today everybody is being encouraged to self
quarantine and you go to any of the stores and the shelves are empty so
there's a lot of people out there that are just nervous and afraid and I just
personally hope that everything is going well with you that you're staying
healthy and that that you're not overly panicked or nervous so today I just
really wanted to focus on teaching a few signs that are related to what's
happening in the news and just what's happening just around the globe right
now. So, today I'm going to be going over some signs that are related to the
corona virus and as well as teaching some signs that are related to feeling
sick, symptomatic, also I'll be showing some
signs for like doctor or nurse, quarantine, and things like that. So the
first sign that I was going to show to you today is for corona virus itself, so
if you've seen images of what the corona virus looks like it's kind of the
spherical shape and it has these spikes that are coming off the surface, so the
sign that has been being so the sign that has been being used for corona
virus is basically this, so you make a fist with your non-dominant hand and
then you will show the spikes with your dominant hand like this. So that is the
sign that is currently being used for corona virus or COVID-19, it's also being
fingerspell as well as COVID-19, and so those are some of the signs that you'll
see in relation to that. The next sign I wanted to show everybody is a sign for
sick and for disease, so typically ASL, sick and disease are signed the
same way, you take your middle fingers and you go to your forehead into your
chest like this and you would just make sure that your facial expression matches
that sign so sick or disease. Also you can use D's for disease it's a little
more SEE sign but is it's commonly used. The next sign I was going to show to you
is just washing your hands, this is something that we all should be doing on
a regular basis, so washing your hands you just pretend that you're washing
your hands just like this. The next one is 'fever' or 'running a temperature', so
this is the sign for temperature and it's also used interchangeably for fever
and also you'll see this sign for fever, you just put the back of your palm
to your forehead like you're feeling for a temperature. Let's see here, the next
sign I was going to show to you is 'difficulty breathing'. So anyone that
actually has the corona virus the way that attacks your body is it typically
goes for the lungs and so one of the symptoms that you have once you do have
it is heavy breathing, so the sign for heavy breathing is like this is for
breathing and for heavy breathing or having trouble breathing,
you will just act that out and show that through your facial expressions...
something along those lines. So this is for breathe and difficulty breathing you
just kind of act it out. Another symptom would be runny nose so you would just
take before classifier handshape and you would go down your nose like this so
this is actually used for to represent any kind of flowing liquid, so of course
if you have a runny nose that liquids going to be going out your nose. Next one
is cough, you just pretend that you cough and you rattle your chest with your
fists like that, for cough. The next sign is going to be doctor, now this is going
to be signed a couple ways, the ASL way of signing that is
going to be with basically a closed five handshape and then you will bend your
four fingers up down like this and it's kind of like the doctor is taking your
pulse. The other way that you'll see the sign is with the actual D handshape, D for
doctor, and it'll again go on the wrist like this and for nurse it's a similar sign
and it would be with the N handshape and it would go on the back of your wrist
like this, so doctor or doctor and nurse. The next sign I'm going to show to you
is for hospital, you just take the H handshape and you draw a cross on your
other arm for like the Red Cross. So the last four signs I'm going to show you
today are all going to be in relation to quarantine, so the sign for quarantine
itself is you're going to make like a little group here and if you're talking
about quarantine in isolation you could set up that quarantine area and then
you're gonna sign alone in the middle of that quarantine so it'll be quarantine
or isolated quarantine or self quarantine, and then the other one's
going to be stay as in you need to stay home.
The sign for home you make a flat 5 handshape and you go from your chin up
to your ear, and the last one is 'stuck', so a lot of us may feel stuck at home and
you're going to make the two handshape and it's going to go to your throat,
stuck. And just to let you know tomorrow evening I'm going to be hosting a group
practice session for ASL students it's going to be at 5:30 p.m. tomorrow
Pacific time, if that sounds something that you'd be interested in, please feel
free to contact me and I can give you further details on that and since I'm
going to be spending a lot more time at home for the foreseeable future that is
going to free up my schedule to accept more students, so I do have a one on one
tutoring program, it's for those that just just really want to get through
learning the language as quickly as possible and so beyond just teaching you
know vocabulary and teaching grammar and things of that nature I also teach
accelerated learning technique, so if you're really interested in just shaving
a lot of time off of the learning process and to be
fluent in as little time as possible or if you're currently struggling and
trying to overcome certain obstacles I can teach you various skills and
techniques to get through those plateau, plateaus, to get through those plateaus
and just really stop struggling and start communicating. And before I wrap up
this video I do want to encourage everybody to stay well and informed,
make sure that you're following credible sources and most of all make sure that
you're staying up-to-date with the recommendations from the CDC. And I'll
also include the links to some videos that I found really helpful with
understanding what the corona virus actually is and the fact that it's not
the first corona virus to go around, it's actually the seventh, but anyways so I'll
leave some of those links in the description down below and in the
meantime be sure that you are up-to-date, stay healthy, stay safe, and until next
time I'll see you later, bye.
... things I was going to show to you the next one is going to be...
Daddy!