When you type in “rules for living in 2020” on google one of the first websites that comes up is:

https://thefortefactor.com/2019/12/30/five-rules-for-a-really-great-life-in-2020/

These are its rules:

Life has its ups and its downs (Never stay down for long)
Never compare yourself to someone else (Focus on being your best self)
Make the time to know what makes you happy and stay focused on it
Take nothing personally
Make everything you touch better




Then there is this:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/09/well/live/coronavirus-rules-pandemic-infection-

prevention.html

These are its rules for Covid-19 living:
Check the health of your state and community (percentages and numbers) - Rates and maps
Limit the number of your close contacts (consistency/bubbles) - arrangements requiring high level
of trust - What do your family/bubble define as reasonable precautions - keep communication open
and without judgement
Manage your exposure budget. (Going forward, you’ll need to make trade-offs choosing activities
that are most important to you… Think about managing virus risk just as you might manage a diet:
If you want dessert, eat a little less for dinner”)
Keep higher risk activities as short as possible
Keep taking pandemic precautions/ keep pandemic socialising

How can we combine these from a future?

Life has its ups and downs, the Covid-19 pandemic is a down. (Never stay down for long, but also
allow yourself to feel down when things are bad)
Never compare yourself to someone else (Focus on being your best self): Don’t be scared but it is
also ok to be scared, and you should be scared because there is a pandemic
Make the time to know what makes you happy and stay focused on it: its ok to be confused but also don’t be too confused

Take nothing personally: even when you are insulted
Make everything you touch better: but please don’t touch anyone