Novel Virus World

A Novel event: Pandemic, COVID-19

Be not afraid as fear and stress mount

Unprecedented, uncertain, some self-quarantine

Now Shelter in Place, All In

Drive-by funerals, feel grief without touching

And social distancing with masks of all kinds

Need to amp up the volume of muted voices.

Continue virtual birthdays, graduations, half-marathons,

E-learning as all students are home.

Over the top hoarding of toilet paper.

Fluid, be flexible, furloughed employees

Clinicians in Full PPE spend days and nights in

Alternate Care Facility prepared to care for 1000s, while outside

Ubiquitous stimulus checks arrive

Two trillion dollars- 2 million x 1 million !?! $2,000,000,000,000

Indefinite re-opening of states in phases?

Oh, what will the

Novel life be?