30 • CENTRAL REVIEW • SPRING 2020
Fine
by Alex Jackson
A collection of fragments I’ve either read or heard about the COVID-19 Pandemic It’s just the flu, we’ll be fine. Remember Swine Flu? Remember Ebola? It’ll be just like that. People weren’t washing their hands before this? But I bought 20 packs of toilet paper, I’m good for whatever. They can’t cancel class. They can’t take my life away from me like this. I can’t make this transition! Classes have been cancelled. I just lost my job. So many people are dead. And life as we know it has been cancelled indefinitely. Are we taking this too seriously? Are we not taking this seriously enough? I’m young, I’ll be fine. But every time I cough, I wonder: Am I going to die? Surely enough if the virus doesn’t kill me, my mental health will. I’ve been socially distant my whole life, so why is this so hard for people? I need to go to work to stay alive, I need to see my friends to stay alive. But we need to stay inside to stay alive.
