Meaning of SOCIAL DISTANCING and SELF-ISOLATION - A Short English Lesson with Subtitles

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Well I'm not sure what it's like
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in your part of the world,
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but in my part of Canada, things are starting to shut down.
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Our government has told us that schools
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will be closed in Ontario,
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no gatherings of more than 250 people,
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so a lot of things in this part of Canada,
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in Ontario Canada, will be slowing down.
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We will be practicing social distancing,
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so as you're learning English,
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sometimes in English we have new phrases,
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this is a new phrase for me,
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social distancing is when
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you just spend less time with other people.
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So we are planning to just stay home a lot
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for the next few weeks,
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to help slow down the spread of this virus,
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we are going to be practicing social distancing,
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as many other Canadians,
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and other people around the world will be doing.
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We'll spend time, Jen and I will spend time with each other,
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and time with the kids,
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and hopefully we'll have some fun camping out.
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If people do get sick though, they practice something else,
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which is a relatively new term for me as well,
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and that's the term self-isolation.
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So this is for people who are sick with the COVID-19 virus,
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they would self-isolate,
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or they would practice self-isolation.
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This means they would stay in their homes,
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they would not go out until they are done being sick,
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and until they are completely healthy again,
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so once again, in Ontario, Canada,
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we are now practicing social distancing,
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we are trying to not to interact
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with too many other people on a daily basis,
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and for those who are becoming sick,
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there are not a lot of cases yet in Canada,
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I think we are just over 100,
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I think there's about 70 in the province of Ontario,
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but we are practicing self-isolation if we are sick.
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I'm not sick yet, my family's not sick yet.
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So we're simply going to stay home,
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and enjoy each others company, while we wait the thing out.
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