WANTED: Worldwide grieving session

Here's another news for you, my childhood best friend, X, has COVID-19 too! Someone my own age. She's currently asymptomatic but I'm obviously nervous. I've already told this to so many friends that I started lacking the words to write about just how anxious and frozen I feel when it only took nine days of intubation to kill him. 

In other news, my high school best friend M and his mom are in big trouble too. M's mom is having chemotherapy for ovarian cancer. Oh bother...

My partner and I are very worried now. She thinks she'll have the virus at one point or another, and honestly, me too. COVID-19 can decimate entire families. Mom's boyfriend works for the media and goes everywhere. He moves fast. Mom's a single parent (I don't consider her boyfriend as my dad yet). This means having to do the groceries along with almost everything else on her own. Sure, I help around, but she insists I stay safe. From a parental standpoint, I guess I can partially understand. You know, being a student and not-parent. Hence "partially". It's more like an armchair-parent kind of understanding.

Be careful, everyone. Wear your masks, vaccinated or not. Stay at home and don't pursue leisurely urges unless the location is near and safe (or at least, be safe). The only time anybody can stop wearing masks (since cultures can vary) is after a global vaccination. In my country, it hasn't even been distributed or sold to the public yet. They're prioritizing health workers and people in the government.

You'll never know when or if it'll be their last or yours.