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Is Coronavirus A Hidden Blessing?
What Covid-19 is teaching us about priorities
The world is in crisis. Thanks to our collective inability to focus on what’s truly important, the COVID-19 Coronavirus has people across the country buying all the toilet paper, and oddly, lamb shanks.
Yes, according to the empty shelves in the meat department, someone is preparing to cook a rack of lambs, duck, and baby back ribs during a non-holiday. I’m awaiting the sweet aroma of barbecue in the wind; someone is undoubtedly out grilling, in the midst of the pandemic.
The media would have you think that we should be preparing for the zombie apocalypse. Every quarantine movie and graphic novel has prepared us for this. But this isn’t a movie. People are scared, and scared people panic.
Because I’m a fan of the weird and creepy, some part of me has always been prepared for a crisis like this one. Coming from a big family, there were at least two jumbo sized packs of toilet paper in the house at any given time. Seeing empty shelves and store signs restricting customers to one toilet paper sale per person, is a glaring indicator that people are short-sighted.
It’s a pandemic! Must buy toilet paper.
I’ll never understand why people buy the most perishable foods like milk and fruit…
