I know many of us are feeling like that poor bastard must be feeling: WTF is happening? So maybe don't scroll the news first/last thing every day all through the day until you feel like screaming, crying, cowering in a corner, or all of the above. Take a moment to feel afraid and uncertain and stressed out of your mind. But only a moment. Is Itsy Bitsy Spider your handwashing song? [Sooo important, handwashing. We got lucky in one respect: unlike some viruses, this one is coated in fat. And what dissolves grease? A good, thorough lather. Sorry. I ❤️ science. Back to the songs.] Choose another and lose yourself in the horror of it all. Once a day, wallow away. And for the rest of the day, do something else. Unless you're on the front line fighting this virus, you really can't do much but look after yourself, your family, friends, community. So focus on that and keep going. Life may seem unrecognizable, but it goes on.
I'm not making light of anyone's plight, so please take this the right way: Countless lives have been turned upside down in the blink of an eye; life has turned out to be unpredictable, uncontrollable and unfair; loved ones and livelihoods lost; plans, hopes and dreams crushed, just like that. But fragile and arbitrary is how life has always been, sweetie darlings, this microscopic little thing only made that...visible. And frighteningly tangible.
Don't let a perfectly horrible crisis go to waste. Keep going. Turn a different corner. Or walk the same street but look at it with fresh eyes. Where do we go from here? I don't know. You tell me. I hope it's someplace good, loving and kind. I hope to see you there.
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