So I haven’t left home for 76 days.

These are my thoughts on the situation:

Nothing is going to be the same ever again. This has put a halt on the whole world. It shocked the world into a state that I don't think it can ever fully recover from.

We went through some of the 5 stages of grief, it began with DENIAL. No one thought this could ever affect them. It will never reach this far. It will never impede upon our lives. This is in one city far away in China. It began with a little murmur in the news. Now there isn't anything else on the news except about this.

The second stage was ANGER when it came here, and it started to affect our lives. Tourism sites, mosques, malls, restaurants, all shut down. People were angry about the person who began this, the bat-eater.

The third stage is BARGAINING, where we are staying put at home, but we're trying to live life as normal as we can, by shopping online and laughing it up, thinking this might blow by quickly.

The fourth stage set quickly after, the DEPRESSION. Being stuck for days, and it seems without an end in sight.

We are just embarking on the fifth stage, and that is ACCEPTANCE. We finally can conceive of the idea that this might last a long time, and it's imprints are going to last for a very long time. Hearing of people you know testing positive, people you know dying. We are finally there, at the point of realization that this is not going to be so easy. People's lives have been touched by this, and it can never be truly 100% undone.

Masks and physical distancing will be part of our lives for a while.

Stay Home as much as you can,

Stay Safe,

and most importantly Stay Sane.