I feel hesitant to write about the pandemic currently sweeping the nation because I am totally out of my depth here. The amount of things I don’t know about what’s going on far exceeds the amount of things I do know, and I don’t feel even the least bit qualified to make definitive statements on how we should respond to this crisis-- both on a national scale and on a personal, emotional level. Massive closures and cancellations. State-issued stay-at-home orders. Record unemployment. Tens of thousands of deaths (and counting). And all from a novel deadly virus from a country with a communist government who lied about it for weeks, allowing it to spread into every corner of the world. It all feels like a dystopian tv series I’d binge-watch while crocheting and thinking to myself, Well thank God this would never actually happen. My family tries to calm me down, telling me we’ll get to the other side of this and be okay. There have been plagues and other comparable (and worse)
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