Pandemic
In March of this year, 2020, illness began to sweep countries, beginning with China. It was all encompassing. People dying by the hundreds. Persons ill by the thousands. It seemed to come out of nowhere like a flash flood taking souls to God and suffering to everyone. In my home country of the United States we saw a rush on food stores and pharmacies for supplies; larger cities like New York City had hospitals struggling to find beds for patients as they also brought in doctors to take extra shifts. Wear a mask became the catch phrase… That, and “Social distance please”, which no one in the USA wants to do… We’re all about hugging. This, while all along the president of our country tried to tell us that it was no big deal and just chill out. That was the beginning of it all. Then, it got worse. And now? We all know that many months later, that illness called COVID-19 is still with us with no cure as of yet.
We are living through this while we are experiencing social unrest, economic upset, a particularly uncomfortable national election year; and then there’s all of our individual lives filled with