How to Show Love During the COVID-19 Pandemic?

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fe would be without them.</p><p id="aff9">Embrace your humanity by staying home as much as possible. Thank God for each day this silent monster doesn’t come to your door. Call a friend and check on them and offer each other a bit of human kindness through conversation.</p><p id="4fbe">While you are at home with the kids, spend quality time together. Have a specific time of day when the devices are off. Relax and watch a movie together or pull out a board game that’s collecting dust. Fill your home with laughter and remember the preciousness of family.</p><p id="70c5">I know it’s been said before, but we are at war with an enemy we can’t see. COVID-19 doesn’t carry a gun or raise a fist. It lays in your body and takes away God’s most precious gift- your breath. It steals the air we’ve taken for granted and enjoyed.</p><p id="4384">We must lay in the fox hole together. We must fight with the human diligence used in WWII. The best method to mitigate the spread is to shelter in place. By doing that, you are possibly saving lives. Several states have shut down all non essential businesses, so I hope the amount of people out and about begins to dwindle.</p><p id="1cf2">Please, be safe, my readers and friends. It’s up to each of us to do our part to defeat this biological enemy.</p><p id="9775"><a href="/@whitec1914"><i>Estacious(Charles White)</i></a><i> is a 23-year educator. He began writing over 25 years ago. His work experience encompasses managing schools and teaching a variety of subjects. His passions are poetry, short fiction, playwrighting, and non-

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fiction. He won one of six prizes in the Rockford play festival for his play “Incarcerated Christmas”. He is married with three children and a native of New Orleans.</i></p><h2 id="a5db">Additional works by Estacious:</h2><div id="bef6" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/while-we-waited-at-the-grocer-a-total-stranger-explained-to-me-how-the-pandemic-is-killing-his-13f0bbead9e3"> <div> <div> <h2>While We Waited at the Grocer, a Total Stranger Explained to Me How the Pandemic is Killing His…</h2> <div><h3>He is only one of many who may never open again.</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*KX8nVDnRAJJO6jAv0no9aQ.jpeg)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><h2 id="fe6d">My Publication:</h2><div id="727f" class="link-block"> <a href="https://medium.com/afro-scribe"> <div> <div> <h2>Afro Scribe</h2> <div><h3>Musings of race, education, and the human condition told thru poetry, short fiction, and essays</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*AJP2lmlD3Eu6Vs18xmICzg.png)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div></article></body>

Love your family and humanity by remaining home.

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive. Dalai Lama

As the above quote states, we cannot survive without love and compassion. In the current situation we need these two concepts more than ever. Hoarding food and toilet paper leaves nothing for the most vulnerable within our nation. I’ve seen the photos of empty shelves and I must admit that struck a bit of fear into my heart. I was actually surprised how horrible the grocery stores became.

However, it not just the food and water hoarding but the amount of people who are still on the streets during a pandemic that could possibly overwhelm our health system. If you are blessed to be healthy, please be thankful but don’t put others at risk.

80 percent of the infected only exhibit mild symptoms or none at all, but those who become deathly ill are in that 20 percent. Consider that 20 percent when you are on the beach or saying I won’t become infected. Please, remember your mom or grandma and consider what life would be without them.

Embrace your humanity by staying home as much as possible. Thank God for each day this silent monster doesn’t come to your door. Call a friend and check on them and offer each other a bit of human kindness through conversation.

While you are at home with the kids, spend quality time together. Have a specific time of day when the devices are off. Relax and watch a movie together or pull out a board game that’s collecting dust. Fill your home with laughter and remember the preciousness of family.

I know it’s been said before, but we are at war with an enemy we can’t see. COVID-19 doesn’t carry a gun or raise a fist. It lays in your body and takes away God’s most precious gift- your breath. It steals the air we’ve taken for granted and enjoyed.

We must lay in the fox hole together. We must fight with the human diligence used in WWII. The best method to mitigate the spread is to shelter in place. By doing that, you are possibly saving lives. Several states have shut down all non essential businesses, so I hope the amount of people out and about begins to dwindle.

Please, be safe, my readers and friends. It’s up to each of us to do our part to defeat this biological enemy.

Estacious(Charles White) is a 23-year educator. He began writing over 25 years ago. His work experience encompasses managing schools and teaching a variety of subjects. His passions are poetry, short fiction, playwrighting, and non-fiction. He won one of six prizes in the Rockford play festival for his play “Incarcerated Christmas”. He is married with three children and a native of New Orleans.