What can be said about the pandemic that has not already been said a thousand times?
It has stretched me thin and knocked me down – but I think it is the fact that I am able to write these things and have you nod along that scares me.
Empathetic acknowledgments of the pandemic just seem to slip off the tongue these days. Over the past few months, we’ve seen the conversational “I’m good! Yourself?” casually morph into a morbid “this year has been tough.”
Perhaps it is my end-of-winter blues speaking but I cannot help but think the entire population has shut down emotionally. Everyone is stressed, tired and sad and I am worried this compassion fatigue will become the new normal for the years to come.
Though, perhaps it is a good thing that we are talking about it and not ignoring our traumas.
My Take: By Marianne Lassonde
