Dear Quarantine: YOU SUCK.

This is day four of quarantine. Arkansans and people all around the world have been told to stay at home to avoid the risk of spreading COVID-19. School is fully online now, my job stopped letting us come in to work, and all gyms are closed. Total bummer. I did get scared a few days ago because of rumors that Walmart was going to shut down for the next two weeks. Needless to say, there are a bunch of higher protein cans of soup in my cupboard right now. Today I finally got out of the little funk I was in and decided to start cleaning my apartment and then I found an at home workout to do since I’m not allowed to go to the gym. Enter Whitney Simmons at home workout. I’ll add the link at the end of this post in case you need it. Since we got that out there, I would like to share a couple other ideas and thoughts about all of this Coronavirus stuff.

1. It is scary. All of the sudden changes that have come up in the past few days have been major. I normally adapt to change very easily, but this is something different, at least for me. When classes were cancelled, I thought, “Okay, cool. This is like an extended Spring Break. No big deal. It’s just some extra time to take care of myself.” But then I got the news from my job that the store wasn’t going to open back up until April. Grocery stores were running out of things before their employees could get it on the shelves. People are dying from this virus. Everything started to get real. As a fan of The Walking Dead, I did run into the problem of being paranoid because of my lack of preparedness. Hence, all the cans of soup in my cabinets. I don’t suggest doing that. It’s okay to be scared, but it’s not okay to panic. I brought anxiety upon myself from a hypothetical situation and it was far from okay. Everything will go back to normal in time.
2. Everything is going to be okay. God has everything under control and that will always be the case, no matter the situation. There are lots of brilliant doctors out there working on figuring this stuff out for us. All we have to do is stay away from other people for a while. We have to quarantine because medical materials used to identify and/or treat the virus are running out too quickly. The Coronavirus has been around for a long time. This is just a new strand. Doctors will figure it out. If we obey the rules that have been suggested, we will help reduce the spread of the virus itself which in turn will help by keeping huge numbers of people out of the hospital.

You are allowed to have your opinion on the quarantine and all of the other effects that have come with this virus, but please, be kind to one another. We are all going through something at least relatively similar. My sister is probably going to have to reschedule her wedding, lots of people had their Spring Break trips cancelled, people are losing their jobs, and so much more. None of those are anywhere close to ideal situations, but there are people out there who are legitimately at risk of losing their lives because of the virus. Show compassion to one another, as a majority of people are having difficulty adjusting. Just keep doing your best in all of this craziness. God will handle the rest.

This is the link to Whitney’s at home workout. This is one of her Christmas time videos, but the workout is still awesome. Workout