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Isolated Self (Emily Poster)

The future of Pandemic response is voluntary self-isolation. The isolated are Connected. Being connected is everything. Everything to ensure they stay...Isolated!

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RON(20) believes, as the rest of the social responsible population does, that in order to keep the herd healthy from the near future pandemic variant, Delta-Epsilon-Alfa-Theta (DEATh) of Covid, he needs to self-isolate(SI).
Corporate sponsored self-isolation facilities have sprung up across the world. This response is a compromise to a lock-downed population. Isolation centres are usually on university campuses where vaccine research is conducted.
The original SI program altruistically provided Connection for the Isolated via video chat to helpful CHAT-teers.
Being Connected was meant to keep the isolated company over their short periods of isolation.
But something has gone wrong and insecure geeky RON has found self-isolation comforting for his insecurities and anxieties arising from social interaction.
Self Isolation expert EMILY(30s) has found there are several young students like RON, that need her special brand of help. EMILY is able to keep her position as a Pandemic psychology expert, so long as there are those that isolate themselves.
EMILY knows what young men, isolated, need and she gives them just enough to keep them hungry to stay ISOLATED!
RON begins to sense something else is motivating the Video Chat-eer companion EMILY.
Will RON find out in time to save himself from perpetual self isolation?
Or will the seductive child-like fantasies EMILY presents be enough to keep him an Isolated self!

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Originally written for submission to the BBC script contest INTERCONNECTED, which unfortunately closed March 2020. Notwithstanding, this near future look at pandemic solutions and issues with the solutions remain pertinent to the human condition.

Submitted: March 1, 2022
Last Updated: March 1, 2022

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The Writer: Victor MacIntosh

Canadian born, newly retired Royal Australian Navy (RAN) Officer, Victor MacIntosh has spent the last 30 years serving both countries in Submarines. Victor completed a Bachelor's degree in Film Studies and Natural Science at University of Western Ontario (Canada). Victor spent his working summers, in Yellowknife Northwest Territories (Canada) as Artistic Director of FOLK ON THE ROCKS - 1984 and later the producer of THE NYLONS benefit concert for Arctic House (halfway house for indigenous parolees); and the producer of the CRASH TEST DUMMIES , benefit concert for the Northern Arts and Cultural Centre. After 7 years in the Royal Canada's Navy submarine service, he then left to run the first... Go to bio

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