Post-Covid

I’ve learned several of my friends and others have gotten Covid recently or are NOW experiencing it. Finally. No one expects to die anymore, but the prevalence and transmissibility of this latest variant tells me that it is everywhere and widespread.

Mostly I try to imagine a world without Covid or life before the disease. What would I being doing now or what might have been different. It’s almost impossible now to think of a before or an after. It is.

 Reality. Every part of my existence has been touched or impacted by Covid. Future generations will only have known it—or the existence of coming pandemics.

Thus, I move my mind away from this line of thinking—from the inevitable to watching deer leap across the fields, scurry into the woods, or a rabbit stop, pause, unblinking, before hopping away.