CORONAVIRUS: Maybe I’m Crazy
posted by Law | May 5, 2020 | In Opinion“I remember when
I remember, I remember when I lost my mind
There was something so pleasant about that place
Even your emotions have an echo in so much space”
– Gnarls Barkley
And my mind hasn’t stopped spinning since the first launch of the term global pandemic. If you’re like me and live with anxiety, this can be the kind of thing that doesn’t allow you to sleep or find comfort in shelter-in-place, quarantine, or isolation. It can leave you wondering what if—? When? Why? How?
Does that make me crazy?
Campus remains closed. I never imagined my college experience would be interrupted, but I believe good news is on the horizon. Summer is nearing, and this strand of coronavirus may die off as a result of the summer heat. While it may be speculation, it gives me hope for a return to lives we once knew.
But maybe I’m crazy.
So many words, new phrases: shelter-in-place, quarantine, isolation. No one really stopped to tell us what these meant or how they would affect our day-to-day lives, should we need to employ one or more of them. Nonetheless, adjustments had to be made. Now people wear a mask (homemade and surgical) and gloves in common places. Our recreational parks and Walmart stores have become biological warzones, armed with weaponized coughs and sneezes. What a price to pay—Rollback!
How do you propose we adjust? Has this become our new norm? What do we say to our children? The burials of loved ones in separate but together spaces, one person in each row, seated at opposite ends. This doesn’t feel like the home I know.
Our government is fragile; politicians can’t be trusted.
Come on now. Who do you think you are?
Ha ha ha, bless your soul.
You really think you’re in control?
It’s easy to believe the conspiracies which dominate social media during this time of discovery and uncertainty, but we share in this. I wonder how much of “the truth” is the truth.
Does that make me crazy?
Possibly.
As citizens submersed in a global pandemic, I suppose it means just that everyone is in the same boat. Everyone is fighting against the same undercurrent. Everyone is sharing the same vulnerabilities, even if you happen to have pre-existing conditions and live in low economical housing. Sickness is sickness. Death is death. Broken hearts are broken.
So, the semester is ending, and I guess we can find comfort in that. We may also let go an exhale of relief during summer break while anxiously awaiting summer school.
What will you do for the summer? Hot Girl (or Boy or NB) Summer: 2020 has been delayed until summer 2021. Quarantine snacks are real. I’ve eaten enough for the holiday season that will soon follow, and it’s been just a few weeks. Nonetheless, coronavirus has driven me crazy, and…
Maybe you’re crazy.
Maybe we’re crazy.
Probably.
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