For us privileged few, will things go back to normal once this is done?

People moan about shelter-in-place. We need to recognize how fortunate we are to have a shelter in the first place.

Do you think people are practicing social distancing in India or Tanzania? In Cambodia or Venezuela? Do you think they’re “practicing” anything?

Maybe I should not have come home. It was travelers who spread this in the beginning. And it’s the millions who can’t afford a plane ticket who will suffer.

All I’m advocating for is awareness. We who are privileged enough to complain about boredom need to be grateful we have credit available. That we have running water. A floor in our home.

Will things go back to normal when this is done? Or will we come together and change? For that is the only way we will rise, the only way we will overcome, and the only way we will thrive. If we recognize we are all equal, and one.

We can change the world. We can make a new normal, one that benefits us all together.