As I feared

“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.”

 -Franklin D. Roosevelt

Since the start of this quarantine,I have been much more concerned with the collateral damage of the shutdown than the pandemic that it was meant to avoid.

How would this affect the economy?

How many businesses would fail?

Would I still have a job?

Will I be able to pay my bills?

How will my friends and family be affected by the financial and emotional devastation that I was sure would be a part of this situation?

Quite honestly , I had little to no fear when it came to the consequences of the actual virus.

People get sick.

People die.

It happens.

It was all of the peripheral carnage that scared the heck out of me.

I didn't have a crystal ball.

I didn't need one.

Any one who has a lick of common sense had to know that there would be dire consequences to this madness.

Alas, I was right to be so fearful.

All around me, the bodies are piling up.

Lost jobs.

Closed businesses.

Hopelessness,confusion,fear and uncertainty.

It's bad folks and I fear it's only going to get worse.

I have no answers.

I can only deal with the here and now of it.

Here is where I am today and what can I do with that.

End of statement.

Clearly we are in for some stormy times. Batten down the hatches.

Trim down the sails and maybe just maybe we can weather this storm together.