Making me question myself. Like, if I find it a common word, am I really sure it’s the same for other people, haha.
It’s definitely not uncommon word. But I guess it has an oldish Soviet vibe to it, you don’t see it much. Kids these days.
But it translates very naturally that feeling when you’re strongly advised something by your superiors and you know you don’t really have much choice.
We have a similar phrase that is steeped in irony " οικειοθελώς και αυθορμήτως" which literally means “on your own volition and impulsively” meaning that there was noone affecting your own judgement or putting any sort of pressure on you. But when said with the right tone and a “wink wink nudge nudge” kind of way it means “we all know that you do not want to do that, but not only you will do it, but you will do it with a smile and say that it was your own idea”.
That kind of verbal duplicity might seem like an odd idea and quite more sly than then “voluntary-compulsory”, but spoken Greek is very friendly with sentences where what is said is actually the total opposite of what is meant to be conveyed.
My favorite example is a phrase that is used almost everyday among friends which literally it means “let’s go nowhere, no day ever and eat nothing at all”, but what is actually meant is “let’s go somewhere, someday soon and eat quite a bit”. And then we wonder why we have a reputation of being fickle with out promises 
Anyway, to stay in topic, our local annual street fair was cancelled due to the coronavirus by the mayor (around 150.000 euro down the drain for the municipality) because he didn’t feel like he could maintain the safety measures, but at the same time the mayor is going on with a local concert he and his friends organised where the safety measures are going to be enforced “by the visitors’ own volition and impulsively no wink wink nudge nudge” since the actual policy is “masks on entry, masks on exit, do whatever while you are seated” 
Needless to say that a lot of people are livid on the matter and such behaviours make any future policies on the coronavirus hard to accept from a logical standpoint. Is it a bit of consistency so much to ask ?
we also had word “самоизоляция” - “self-isolation” which was used instead of “quarantine”
so propaganda could say “voluntary self-isolation” when in reality it was “compulsory quarantine”
Looks like go clubs are opening up.
Yesterday, Trini Lopez died from Covid-19.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trini_Lopez#Personal_life)
Not a fan of Trump, but I think he looks much better in the mask. I’m happy he decided to wear it at least once…
I’m not sure if Trump decided to wear it, or if the hospital wouldn’t let him walk in without one.
We are steadily above 200 cases per day.
I don’t think it’s going well.
Looks like the consensus is that this Russian “PR vaccine” can’t be trusted. Time to hide in the woods with the rest of antivax movement.
You can look up vaccine candidates on WHO site.
Gamaleya Research Institute is the Russian one.
From internet articles about this, it looks like it was tested on small sample within a short time period, with unclear results and side-effects.
From Russian side the criticism is explained by foreign companies fighting for money.
Social distancing:
Desinfection:
(Clean Freak! Aoyama-kun)
mask gun
It seems this is a hotel. There are many such floating homes, prices are around 400$ / day
summer ended
new cases / week graph update:
Cases are rapidly rising, over 150 and sometimes over 250 new cases each day.
Schools are supposed to open soon, people are starting to “rebel”, tourism season was a disaster, everyone is tired and fed up.
Other than the numbers, I guess I could be describing more or less any country.
Considering all those photos from the beaches and protests, coronavirus might be not that big of a deal after all. If it can’t conquer all the world completely under these favorable conditions, how good is the virus?
Anyway, school year starts tomorrow. From what I heard it’s circus in the schools. Government officials trying to come up with the rules as to how organize schools. And they aren’t used to thinking in general 
and here they need to balance effectiveness and doable-ness.
I think it’s known that good ventilation (outdoors) and direct sunlight make it quite difficult for the virus to spread. Not impossible, but a lot less likely. The real danger is a full office / church / school / concert hall / bar / etc.
If a virus is too deadly, it’s in the host’s favor, eventually.
The problem is when it’s deadly enough.
We’re just here, sitting squarely at 1 thousand cases per day, basic reproduction rate between 1.1 and 1.2 and open for business. Tourism is allowed from those countries with infection rates lower or equal to ours, which as it stands it’s basically all of Europe, East Asia, Australia, NZ and Canada, but still only 12 US states.
The crisis is hitting hard on those of lowest economic income, while simultaneously being used as cannon fodder by certain political actors. It is not a trivial situation trying to fend off the virus, the conspiracy theories and poverty all at the same time.
Also yeah,
as much as I think that’s a brilliant game, this is not a round of Plague Inc.
