That Dreary Virus

Coronavirus. The novel coronavirus. Covid-19. "The Unnamed Disgusting Awful Virus." Call it what you want, but it is that deadly, dreaded virus that swept the world in 2020. Honestly, though, it's not feeling deadly anymore- it's actually dreary. We barely talk about that "novel" virus anymore, although more than a catastrophe followed in its wake. The most recent time I heard the word "virus" was when my homeroom was bantering on the anniversary of virtual learning: and that was last month. By now, that virus has almost disappeared from everyone's minds. Wearing masks and those "6-feet-distancing" signs are a benign part of daily life.

In my opinion, it's simply human nature. The virus is, in plain truth, not interesting anymore. The hair-raising, spine-tingling thrill that once rattled our nerves is not much more than a hum. The vaccines that are cascading out in substantially copious amounts seem to have decided our fates- and for most of us, that's enough. I don't know about other people, but I don't really listen to the news updates on the virus as much as I used to, because it's the same old drone of known information. Yes, the new virus variants and mutations are supposed to be apprehensibly dangerous, but after 2020, I just can't bother to think about it anymore. We're in that phase where we've just been too overwhelmed, and our imaginations are at their wit's end to worry about anything anymore.

Now, I know that loads of media sources have already posted this, but the scientists and doctors are really remarkable- more than we could ever realize. If they hadn't published these vaccines, our minds would still be swimming in blind fear. The vaccines are one of the prime reasons that we can be calm at all about this whole botched mess.

So many things have already happened- for starters, schools have shut down. Yet, my baby brother was born, he's nearly two years old now, we still go shopping, we still go hiking, and all that much hasn't changed (apart from that one person who dramatically leaps back if you take a step forward- in the opposite direction). Essentially, it depends on how you think about it. "If you think you can, you're halfway there, and probably more" - Some Person Somewhere in the World at Some Time. Life just goes on, and humans, being the easily bored people we are, just forget about it.