Fear

Today, I should've been back in school. According to the second board announcement, Distance Learning should have been over by now. But it's not. It was the extension that made me realize just how serious coronavirus is. And, by proxy, how idiotic protesting it is. It was the second, most recent extension that made me sit and think about just how much the entire world is being affected. It made me think about how many people are dying from this. Just two months ago I hadn't even heard the word "coronavirus" and now, there's over a million cases and 98,000 deaths in this country alone. Worldwide, there are five million cases in our 7.8-billion-person planet. That's insanity. And it's scary.
At first, it was over on the other side of the world. And then it crept over. Put entire countries on lockdown, killed thousands, and slowly closed in. Watching it reach my state, then my city, then my county--has been scary. I've had thoughts about it infecting someone I know and then I spiral into a pit of fear. People make jokes about it and I try to laugh along but honestly, most of the time, I'm too tense about the whole subject to really do jokes. I'll make a comment here or there since corona essentially is 2020 right now, but I can't see it as something to be taken lightly at all.
Unlike most Turtle Thoughts, I didn't really talk about any revelations I've made. Unless realizing coronavirus is dangerous counts as a realization, but I knew that already. I can't recall, but I've probably mentioned it here. I just felt a little overwhelmed. So, I decided to talk a little bit in a short post and see what that does for my nerves.
Thank you for listening as always. :)