What it's like to live in a sci-fi world, that's us. We've all seen and read the tales about pandemics hitting the earth and people having to find shelter and avoid others who are the "enemy". Well, folks, here we are in it. Being in a scary sci-fi movie isn't so bad after all. Sure it's changed us, but let's hope for the better. Let's hope they can find a way to stop it. We don't know that at this point. We hope, we think, we pray. But it isn't a sure thing. This virus has made us more aware of the enemy, the bugs, and how serious they can be. A tiny creature, smaller than we can see with the naked eye and mostly out of range for anything else we have on hand to identify it, has taken over our lives all over the whole world. It has, in an odd way, united us because the same virus has attacked all of us. It isn't some long legged creature from another planet arriving with lethal large metal airships, it came from right here on our own planet. And like the lovely creatures we are, the hopeful, never endingly wishful, we are coping with it. Well, most of us are. There are still some odd individuals who don't believe this is really happening, but isn't that one of the roles in the sci-fi movies we watch and watched? It's real and real things are happening. It's killing people. The old for now. This bug has us re-thinking our lives and what matters and what isn't all that important. It's making us choose what we do daily. Should be go out or stay home? Should we shop or order on line or by phone? Do we really need to slap on the make-up or get our hair or nails done or can we actually live without doing that? Do we need to go to work, when it can be done at home? And what about these little kids we had and what to do with them all day when they aren't going to school where there are free babysitters who educate them because that's what they are really supposed to be doing? And Gramma and Grampa, we love them so much and they mean so much and now we cannot go to see them as often and how we want to. We want to be with them, to feel their hugs and hear their stories about our parents. Now, we can't and sometimes they die and we didn't get to tell them all that we wanted to. How about our friends we cheered on games with? What happened to the fairs and festivals and big celebrations that are no more? Will they ever come back? I want to play Bridge or Canasta or Gin Rummy with my old buddies but now we do it on line. You know that run we used to do and see who came out of it with the blue ribbon? It's not on now but we can still run only not close enough to smell the sweat and know that's what we smell like or hear the groans and pants and know that's what it is like to run. Do you remember the clubs and how we all hopped and danced and caroused and laughed and got a bit out-of-it together? No more. It's an unworldly world and we are in it just like the old movies where people got sick and didn't survive and became enemies to each other. Even the biggest leaders in the world get this bug because it doesn't care how important you are, or how old you are, or what you have done or how famous you are. It just wants to get you. Be careful. You live in a sci-fi world now.
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