A Love Letter to COVID19

 Thank You, COVID19!


A Love Letter to the deadliest virus since the Spanish Flu


October 31st, 2020 11.27 pm


Dear COVID19,

Thank you for showing us homo sapiens that we aren't invincible. 
That we suck at work-life balance. 
That we're toxic to nature - rivers, animals and birds thrive and come out to play without us.
That we're toxic to ourselves - we lower our own immune systems by our lifestyle choices, leading to pre-existing conditions, and we actually live and spend money so our medication can help us get away with it.
We shouldn't get away with it. Many of us haven't, because of you.
We should live properly. Eat properly. Exercise properly. Rest properly. Commune with family properly. Wash our hands properly, and regularly. Be careful how we cough and sneeze, and if we can't, wear masks because others don't deserve to catch the germs WE harbour.
You came and reminded us of that.
You reminded us that too much of what we do for a living is actually quite non-essential and often depends entirely too much upon other people's avoidance-motivated movements and fickle preferences.
That children are the primary responsibility of their parents, not their teachers.
That teachers are NOT babysitters, but highly skilled and specialised agents in the fight against vast ignorance and dangerous apathy, or incuriosity, or the anti-intellectual in the world of human civilization. 
We are priests and priestesses of learning, and as such, of culture itself.
Most of all, thank you for helping me sing again after being diagnosed with functional dysphonia. 
Thank you for giving me lost sleep, lost time in commutes, the feeling that I can take all the time I need to create what I love all by myself.
Thank you!

Thank you, 
Thank you,
Thank you ever so much. 

Yours truly,

N. S.

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