Nattydread
Elder Lister
It was just a matter of time.
One day, this COVID-19 thing would cease to be an abstraction, a thing to follow on TV and The Internet. It would touch people you know, people with names and nicknames, people you have laughed with and hugged. It would morph into a monster you can see and feel. Its handiwork, in the worst case, will leave you heaving in a teary mess, cursing life itself.
Today, I learned that a person I know intimately, as close to a blood-child as it can get, has been battling the virus. Young and vital, she is improving, though the same cannot be said of some of her agemates in a similar situation.
It is time for all of us to gird ourselves and prepare to do battle. If not you and the virus, prepare for a tormenting psychological and emotional stress-test that might soon come your way if a person dear to you gets affected. Are you ready?
One day, this COVID-19 thing would cease to be an abstraction, a thing to follow on TV and The Internet. It would touch people you know, people with names and nicknames, people you have laughed with and hugged. It would morph into a monster you can see and feel. Its handiwork, in the worst case, will leave you heaving in a teary mess, cursing life itself.
Today, I learned that a person I know intimately, as close to a blood-child as it can get, has been battling the virus. Young and vital, she is improving, though the same cannot be said of some of her agemates in a similar situation.
It is time for all of us to gird ourselves and prepare to do battle. If not you and the virus, prepare for a tormenting psychological and emotional stress-test that might soon come your way if a person dear to you gets affected. Are you ready?
