COVID-19: A few dark facts, a bit of perspective, and some silver linings.
I was surprised this morning to see the death toll from yesterday in the UK was over 180 people taken by COVID-19. That's a lot of people. That is a lot of families who have lost someone they love. That is a lot of death. I imagine for a moment if even 100 of the people I loved disappeared, forever. I would be crushed. Tears start to well up in my eyelids. It's okay to cry when we feel pain, or empathize with the pain of others. If no one told you this before, they should have. Cry away. Those are healing tears. They are letting go rather than burying. Grieve out the pain. Grieve away. This year I lost my grandmother. She was a woman whose loss was most definitely worth grieving. Ironically, she was also a woman who could find the silver lining to any situation. As I think of her, I remember that there are usually two sides to every story. In the case of COVID-19, there is (and this is not bad to have)...