The Big Little Efforts

The Coronavirus. Many say it all started with a Chinese man who had consumed bat soup, and it has spread irresponsibly ever since. We've heard stories of travelers from China, Korea, and Italy returning to the United States recklessly infiltrating mass gatherings and most definitely thought of such an action as selfish and rash. The simple solution is to quarantine yourself.

But the reality of avoiding the virus is much more complicated than we say. Quarantining means two weeks of nearly no human interaction and remaining within the few thousand feet of a home. Not only that but quarantining also raises the issue of spreading the virus to family members. Either you become isolated from the rest of the family, which can be incredibly difficult because of the close proximity, or everyone in the family accepts their fate of becoming infected.

However, this dilemma doesn't even consider the challenge of quarantining. Regardless if one were to be doing so out of fear of others or self-containment, staying at home indicates minimal activity and limited human interaction. Can you imagine how suffocating it is to be confined to a limited area without human contact? The terrifying reality is that this could be our future if the virus worsens exponentially. But these torturous measures may ultimately become "futile effort[s]" when others carelessly spread the virus or outside sources unintentionally come into contact with those contained. Our efforts to reduce mass gatherings, interaction, and illness are struggles for survival and health that we can only pray prove effective.