Gone

What a fitting prompt.
Everything lately seems to be disappearing just a bit. Maybe I'm being dramatic, but I believe I miss something. I wasn't exactly sure what it was until recently. I rarely left my house to begin with, unless it was for school or church, so missing going out wasn't exactly an option. Here I am, perfectly healthy, and corona-less. My mother turned out to be fine, my siblings are fine, no one that I directly know has been infected. I wasn't missing being well, I am well. Sure, I've been feeling a little empty recently, but there wasn't much for me to complain about. I've been fine throughout this whole thing. I've slept through so much recently I might as well be snowed in.
But I'm not snowed in. Outside my door, a pandemic is spreading. Stores are shutting down to the dismay of several lunatic "anti-lockdown" protestors. America's virus rates are soaring up higher than any other country with no slowing down in the near future. The people turn to the president to blame and use it as another excuse to not trust the government or its efforts. Schools are closing, businesses are flopping, and pollution levels finally drop. All the "save the earth" efforts and campaigns over the past decade and it takes an aggressive pandemic to make enough noticeable change to turn heads.
I can't even properly get into the people who are actually suffering from the virus. I read a Reddit post (it was a while back, I couldn't find it again) that had a comment from a NY frontline nurse. OP went and detailed the horrors from the hospital from how little space they had for sick patients to how dead bodies were being transported. Recently I looked up New York's deaths, there are places where no one is recovering. Out of all the infected people, there are counties with zero recoveries. It's spreading so quickly and officials are moving as fast as they can. Praise people like Jennifer Haller for stepping into the unknown.
Shame on those like me, sitting here, sleeping through it all.