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Phrase: Food for thought
I want to begin by saying that we are in the middle of a pandemic, but I don’t know if we are.
That fact in itself gives us food for thought.
Food for thought is any topic that requires serious consideration.
If you spend a lot of time pondering something, it’s food for thought.
This unexpected situation provides us all with reasons to seriously consider how we live and what we have been doing with our lives.
As a Canadian living in Japan, I’ve been looking at the COVID-19 situation in the States and wondering what the heck is going on.
It does give one food for thought.
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How did a powerful country with highly educated people, the most money, and the best technology screw up so badly?
It has caused me to reconsider how I think of the US.
Cities had been shut down, borders closed, and grocery store shelves were temporarily empty, while here in Japan, the impact has been minimal.
It gives one food for thought.
What has Japan done so right and the US so wrong?
Around the world, people are reconsidering what is truly important to them.
Is going to a movie or eating in a restaurant worth taking a chance on catching COVID-19?
Our worlds have been shrunk down to the walls of our homes.
Sure, some went stir crazy, but others quite enjoyed it.
Writers now have no excuses not to write.
Technophobes and Luddites have been forced to acquaint themselves with video conferencing technology, and wannabe bakers have learned how to bake.
I mean, what else are you going to do?
All this deep thought that people have been doing requires energy, and there’s no better food for thought than chocolate cake or shortbread cookies.
Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test
This post is understandable by someone with at least a 7th-grade education (age 12).
On the Flesch-Kincaid reading-ease test, this post scores 74.
The easier a passage is to read, the higher the score on a scale of 0 – 100.