Covid-19
Anxiety Unleashed
This is madness, a circus show of nightmares pulled from the darkness
of places too far away to touch us.
“It is just flu like symptoms, it can’t hurt us”
A sentence repeated by blameless victims in the wake of it. The death toll is rising, people are freaking out and stockpiling to control what they can in a time where they feel useless.
Our government will protect us, our government will protect us, our government will protect us. Really? Listen to the announcements and do not flouter the rules of isolation.
Suffocation, suffocation, suffocation, choking on the media’s constant stream of statistics. But we can’t help it, it is everywhere and everyone is feeding into this stream of information about it, we are trying to comprehend that the solution will not be immediate. Our health workers, doctors and ministers cannot possibly carry the weight of it. We are now in the thick of it. Everyone can feel it. Lock down, we are locked down until further notice.
Flatten the curve, flatten the curve, flatten the curve. So we are all now part of curve that we need to flatten. Who could have envisioned, the year of 20/20, the year of PPE shortages, the year of our most vulnerable elders threatened and of all things considered important? toilet paper leaving our shelves faster than we can stock them.
This virus, is it lingering and infesting our minds beyond our capabilities to handle this in an orderly fashion. We are anxiety ridden, we are losing our incomes and our abilities to control our financial situation. We are all finding ways to distract ourselves from the idea that this might only be the beginning, yes only the beginning, this has the ability to stop our economy completely. To shape the way we live and breathe and how we appreciate our freedom.
And we cannot find a way to deal with this. Our minds are on alert and we are constantly circling “ the virus, the virus, the virus. JUST STOP. We need to put a stop to this. We need to buckle in and stay at home and find a way to beat it.
Yes, 2020, the year the world felt defeated. The year of COVID-19 and the wake up call of our generation, the pandemic that temporarily caused the world to think about what is really important.
Connection and freedom, connection and freedom.
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Wild Flower (Jess Banks) is an Australian based writer. Lover of coffee, chocolate, and rum. Excited by nature, adventures, and poetics. Still discovering who she is and openly writing about her faults and triumphs.
© WF, 2020.
