Once this pandemic storm passes, it will be a different kind of after. Nothing will be quite the same again, my love.
“What day is it?” my daughter asked, stumbling through into the lounge. The light, the temperature and the atmosphere told her this was the time she would usually be going to school. But today I’d let her sleep in. Immediately following the president’s television announcement the night before, I’d tried to impress upon her the relevance of what he’d said. “The schools are closing, my girl!” But she is seven years old, and these kinds of things only affect her when they’re experienced directly.
On the other hand, we are all seven years old. The impact of the coronavirus outbreak has been theoretical for a while. We may have heard about it through the news and social media. China. Lockdowns. People in masks. Numbers. The truth is we do not know what day it is. These are days like no others. We have few points of reference to make sense of what we are experiencing. This is not a Monday like any before it. We cannot proceed as we have done.You will not go to school today. Today, we stay home. Tomorrow we stay home. For as long as we can, we stay home, while the world shifts around us. While the very axis of the planet realigns itself.
Perhaps we will be able to pick up where we left off one day, but for now, it’s hard to tell. There will be an interval. And they say there will be an after.So let us keep ourselves well, and remember those times before, those innocent, mundane times. Let us preserve these past few weeks, the days most fresh in our memory. Let us quickly record them. Let us consciously cast our minds into the immediate past and write it down, or fix for posterity.
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