Right now, I am feeling: online
Email: ara******n@en****sg.com
Name (optional): Buford O’Keefe III Buford O’Keefe IIIOnline
We are all online now. Because of this nasty bug that’s going around. We have always been online, but now we have to be online. And that’s different because we don’t like to be forced to do things.
Online. And alone.
More than a disease of the lungs, coronavirus is a disease of loneliness.
Every day people are eating alone. Drinking alone. Watching TV alone.
And they are dying alone. If you are dropped off at an ER with suspected COVID-19 your family will watch you get wheeled through glass doors and if you die in there you will die alone. Or maybe an anonymous nurse, with just her eyes peeking out above a mask, will hold your hand with her thick rubber glove as you struggle through that last breath.
This is a disease of loneliness.
Living alone. Celebrating alone. Dying alone. Mourning alone.
Online. But alone.
