The times, they are decidedly not chill. We are in the midst of a global pandemic. Our government and healthcare infrastructure are woefully unprepared for the novel coronavirus outbreak. The stock markets are plummeting. The NBA has suspended its season, Broadway has gone dark, and Disneyland is closed. OJ Simpson is posting coronavirus memes. Should those examples not fully illustrate the extent of our dystopian present, Tom Hanks has fallen ill and his son, Chet Haze, reacted to the news with a video announcing "wassup everyone, yeah, it’s true, my parents got coronavirus, it’s crazy.”

For those of us who are privileged enough to be able to do our jobs at home, this means a lot of time spent alone soaking dried beans and spiraling at the prospect of imminent societal collapse. Many have also found this to be an opportune time to rewatch movies like Contagion and Outbreak. As an antidote, may I suggest: not doing that. Instead, bathe your brain in the chillest media possible.

I myself am a generally neurotic person, but I wish I wasn’t. Specifically, I aspire to be exactly like the @chillsitch Twitter account—so that’s where I started in my quest for recommendations. “Anytime I feel that familiar knot of clenching panic rising between my shoulder blades, I make a plan to watch my favorite sedative, Norway’s National Firewood Night,” Taylor Moore, the brains behind @chillsitch, told me. “It’s eight hours of perfectly barked and split firewood, well-meaning musical performances, and glacially paced conversations between Nords, all with that unique, glowing calmness of a people who still have Winter and have grown up in the loving embrace of socialized healthcare. It’s nice watching someone else get it right.”

Yes. Wonderful. That’s what I’m talking about. And in that spirit, read on for more chill suggestions from the GQ staff.

This Video About a French Surfer Who Moved to Norway

I find myself returning, time and time again, to this beautiful Patagonia short about a surfer named Léa Brassy, who moved from southern France to frigid Norway in order to surf. The video is very meditative: Brassy has few possessions, spends days at a time living out of a camper van, bakes some bread, and gets all these gentle rolling waves all to herself while surrounded by these pristine white mountains. It’s the dreamiest kind of social isolation. — Chris Gayomali