Another Virus is Spreading Across the World

Last Sunday, at about 3:00 pm, my radar starting beeping. My younger sister, who usually was in good spirits during our Sunday call, sounded exasperated over the telephone. When I asked her what was wrong, she paused before responding. “Well Eze, I think I’m really starting to hate all people.”

I burst out laughing at my sister, the canny misanthrope. “What? What do you mean? Why do you hate people?”

“Well, I went to the supermarket this morning,” she said. “Oh, my god! Eze. It was pandemonium in the store. There were people everywhere, running here and there, stocking up on every single thing that they could find. Shopping carts were overflowing with food and the shelves were empty. People were running out of the store with five or six cases of water.”

“For real. The shelves were empty?”

“Yes. Eze, the toilet paper. It was gone. There was nothing left. I’m going to have to buy some toilet paper on Amazon!”

“What? The fuck is going on?”

“I don’t know. I don’t see bodies collapsing on the streets. We’re not at that point, are we?

“I know people are getting anxious about the virus, but I didn’t know it was getting to this level.”