April 9 – illness in the time of illness

I have written here, and elsewhere, that the current pandemic has left my life relatively unaffected, being as it is that I have been confined to my house for around five years already.  This mostly remains true, at least externally.

.However, like many other people, I have been watching large amounts of news and reading articles and reports on the SARS CoV-2 crisis and its spread around the world, watching how each country is reacting and the effect that has on its own citizens, and trying to help others deal emotionally with what is going on.

As my pre-existing health condition worsens, I can feel myself having fewer emotional resources to deal with the extra information, and for the increase in online activity that seems to have understandably happened in response to it.

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