“Chaos comes in a tiny package.”  That was a line that stood out as I watched the second season of Kingdom, a zombie series on Netflix that takes place in the Joseon period.  So funny how zombies have been a theme in the media lately, foreshadowing reality’s pandemic, our current global situation.  Will we survive?

A virus has gone viral.  COVID-19 has disrupted the world, and people have reacted by hoarding toilet paper!  Reality feels surreal.  Corrupt politicians played down the COVID-19 thread, but sold stocks before the market crashed.  Trump just attacked a reporter for asking him a simple question,”What do you say to scared Americans?”

Luckily we have real leaders stepping up to the plate.  Our governor, Gavin Newson, has issued a stay-at-home order where we are only allowed out for essential activities.  The governor of New York spoke this morning about how words matter, and how we should not call the stay-at-home order shelter-in-place order, a policy used for active shooter situations.  Great leaders choose their words carefully and wisely.

Since I had been let go from the private school, not much has actually changed for me except that my husband  and children are working remotely.  I have gotten use to this slow moving provincial-like lifestyle, and now I guess, the world is forced to do the same.  It’s funny how life goes.  I don’t think I was made for the bureaucratic, inhuman world that forced us on a linear timeline within a pyramid structure.

Maybe something good will come out of all this death and contagion.  Maybe we will stop putting money and greed above lives and stop taking things for granted.  Maybe we can give the earth a break while the canal in Venice runs clear amid a lock-down.  Maybe Trump can catch a cold.  One can only hope.

My cats lounge around the house, playing and napping.  In the midst of this catastrophe maybe we should be cats.