Diary Entry #4 Corona Virus

It is difficult to write a journal without doing an entry on this subject. My mind and my thoughts are consumed with corona virus worries. It feels so real but then so much like a movie at the same time. The very real stark realities of my husband potentially losing his job in the not so distant future, the realities of deaths around the world and the overwhelming responsibility I feel for my family as well as those key workers who are working themselves to the bone to try and keep up with their roles to help everyone else. But then it feels so surreal, is this really happening? And the fact that it is so wide spread and the panic is not just a couple of eccentrics that have bunkers at the bottom of their gardens, it is nearly everyone as they face the reality check that there is no food on the shelves. Walking down the aisles of Morrisons a couple of days ago, it felt like a post apocalyptic scene but no, it is just ours and so many others reality, not a movie, our reality. It is hard not to be eaten up by the news of the knock on effect of this virus, the amount of people and businesses effected in so many ways. It makes my head hurt. I want to stay informed so I will continue to watch the death stats go up and the shocking bullet ins but what I will do is cling to the fact that this reality won’t be forever. I hope.