GH- you know you finally convinced me. After 3 years of nonsensical hatred i finally got this advice. You are so so right, we SHOULD be scared!
We should live in fear. We should spend our evenings calling old friends and making amends, rewriting our wills jotting notes for eilegies, expecting the worstand treating each moment as our last.
We should live in fear when the mail comes, spray it down and leave it to dry. We should be petrified to step out to buy food, maybe even fear the chessed volunteers who shop for us.
We should worry incessantly about our and our children’s safety, maybe calling them several times a day begging them not to leave their houses.
Only this over focus on death, danger, mortality and counting our minutes will keep us productive and safe, will maintain our sanity and health, and will assure us that we will survive this pandemic. Because hope and positive thinking is evil, insensitive and can only be good for your heart and mental health. But you have no business having such cares about hearts and minds during a pandemic.
Yes. Anxiety and despair! That’s the way to lead a nation to a recovery!