Should we orient our lives around covid?

[Juxtapose]

Yes.

No.

[Gal67]

Reorient our lives because of a little sniffle? What the hell for?

[Fuentes]

Clown World 🤡🐑🤡

[emmaaylalover19]

nart

[DaveToo]

Both “orient” and “orientate” are verbs meaning to align or position yourself; to work out where you are within a particular situation or environment. The origin of both words is the same : the Latin word oriens meaning “rising” and “east”, because of the rising sun.

Orient as a noun means the countries of the East, especially those of east Asia. Strictly speaking, then, to orient/orientate yourself means to align yourself to the east, although the verb now has the general sense of “to position yourself”.

In the UK, it is more common for people to say “orientate” whereas in the US, “orient” is more common. Writers in both countries sometimes bemoan the usage of the alternative word. In fact, both words are acceptable according to the dictionaries.

The Oxford English Dictionary and the Merriam-Webster Dictionary list “orient” and “orientate” as verbs meaning the same thing. Which one you choose to use really just comes down to local preference. To a UK reader, “orient” may well sound non-standard, whereas “orientate” may sound clumsy to a US reader. Other parts of the world will have their own preferences. The key thing to remember is that both forms of the verb are generally acceptable.

As an aside, the opposite of Orient (the noun) is “Occident” : the countries of the West. There is, however, no equivalent verb. You can neither “occident” nor “occidentate” yourself. The closest verb is occidentalize, meaning to conform to western ideas or customs.

[rosemilk]

do we orient our lives around the flu? nope... so this is no different.

[jshm2]

The key words in that vid are "more like," not "exactly like" .

Hence it doesn't have the meaning the daft video maker thinks it does.

[Juxtapose]

I do despise arguments centered around semantics

[exitseven]

No, if we change our way of life then the virus wins.

[bgreek]

You mean around the common cold
Why?
It should be life as normal

[GoodGuyBreakingBad]

No, just practice distance socializing and wear a mask when out

[Juxtapose]

I don't do either of those things and especially with omnicron being so mild, I don't plan to.

[Snakeyes7]

This is one of the few diseases we have had to orient out lives over and it was a shitshow every time.

[Juxtapose]

Did we really have to? Don't you wonder why this has been the biggest transfer of wealth to the upper class in the history of the world?

[Snakeyes7]

I did and would not be surprised if this was their plan to begin with.

[joeldalton]

Nope. The narrative is collapsing for the doomers

[WhiteBoyChill]

I never have and I never will

[BillyBalls]

Nope!!!

Just live life.

[zagor]

Aren't we doing just that?

[Juxtapose]

I'm not lol.

[msc545]

No, except you die if you don't.

[Juxtapose]

With how non-lethal the virus is?

[msc545]

People die or get disabled from it.

[Juxtapose]

People can die or get disabled from the flu too.

[msc545]

So what?

[Juxtapose]

Now you get what I'm thinking.

[imsocool1806]

life must go on