Post-Virus

Future Prospects Is it possible at once to defeat and be overcome by the disease? Such extravagant forebodings dwindle in the fear of moment, like a great visitation of the past that dwarfed the mayhem of WWI, wonder if libertarians had qualm with “Spanish” Flu, or accepted it as a benign nomenclature for a deadly virus wiping millions east and west. But I'm showered with anxiety over the news of climbing toll and hospital shortages while experts warn this is 'tip of the iceberg', but not any iceberg, why I suddenly feel they all have Titanic in mind and the boats' shortages. Do not give tamely to plague of fears, my mind searching frantically for the desire for courage that thrives in the heart of every great calamity, for sure future's window stays resolutely closed without it, call it an unqualified view of our future prospects vested in our present isolation and self-imprisonment, in the midst of our sadness and bewilderment, recognizing the enormity of the challenge ahead, posing as an existential threat, a recurring nightmare stealing the fortunes of present generation, rudely disrupting their routines, but hopefully only a dent on their dreams