From the start of “the President’s 15 days to slow the spread” guidelines that featured prominently in the daily task-force briefings, I quickly started scrolling past without reading the ubiquitous posts on Facebook and Twitter linking whatever daily advice was published, or passing on what ostensibly were first person accounts of the situations in various hospitals and ICU wards. It was too much, and too unreliable.
I certainly don’t have anything to add worth reading about the Wuhan coronavirus, besides what I’ve already posted on the polarized viewpoints too many people are applying to the question of what the local, state, and federal governments’ policies should be. Busybodies and would be authoritarians are having a field day, unfortunately. That will be something to watch in the weeks and months ahead.
As far as flourishing in April 2020 and beyond, though, do all you can to stay healthy, in the fullest sense. Health is more than not contracting an illness. Take care of your whole body’s condition. Keep your mind active, and challenged. Enhance the spiritual side of yourself. Give yourself permission to feel the emotions you feel, and try to identify them with some precision, but don’t let them have the only say, or even the final say. What you know is true from brighter days is still true, even in dark times like these. Hang on to it.
Thoughts of a citizen 