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As The World Falls Apart, We All Can Come Together
COVID-19 could become a disguised blessing for humanity if we will it
With each passing day, it’s looking more like the opening chapter to Stephen King’s The Stand out there. At first, the Coronavirus seemed like a far away illness that hardly even registered in my mind. But now, just a couple months later, it’s reached my area all the way up here near the White Mountains of New Hampshire.
How did all this happen? I’ve heard reports claiming it had been anything from escaped bio-engineered germs, to bat soup. Regardless of how the pandemic began, we’re all here in the same boat trying to keep ourselves and our loved ones safe, as well as sane.
Every day seems to bring more bad news and intensity to our doorstep, but we have an opportunity to change the way we look at things we thought we knew so much about. Social media, for instance, was originally meant to bring us closer together, but had many of us feeling more isolated than ever before. Intimate connections paradoxically took a back seat in the age of Facetime and text messaging. People began to stalk each other and broadcast themselves for the gratification of total strangers.
But now, with social distancing, we can use social media to connect us in the way it was intended to. I’m thinking now is a time when scrolling…
