Dear Reader;

I don’t know if anyone is reading my posts here, and I keep writing here even though I don’t know if anyone reads. This post is an exception to my characteristic scientific view of this pandemic. This is how I feel about it as I am typing: it feel like the end of the world is happening to everyone at the same time. The One Time when the rich is in the same boat as the rest: as rich and famous as  one is, one has to breathe.. and there it is that threatening virus for all to breathe.

Every day it is the end of the world for someone, for a lot of people everyday: people finding out they have cancer, people finding out they have this or that terminal disease (the rich and the poor), or one hears a loved one getting such diagnosis and it feels like the end of the world.. yet everyone goes about their lives: going out to restaurants, to bars, to clubs, to other people’s homes, laughing and partying or what not.. while thousands and millions all over the world are dying or watching their loved ones die.

But this time, everyone at the same time is confronting their own personal end of the world emotional experience: if not in regard to health, then in regards to economics, one’s financial situation, unemployment, previous financial planning going down the tube, economic recession, depression.

Again, this end of the world emotional experience happens to millions of individuals globally, every day, and we don’t notice, because it’s not us, and it’s not close to us. But now we notice, we have to, because it’s all over, at the same time.

anita