The World Down

The world spins much slower when Death comes near. Grandma Ru told us it’s so Death can snatch you before you know good enough to run.

Listen. I know everyone says the virus isn’t any worse than seasonal flu. But the speed it’s jumped from a small village out in some town no one had heard of three months ago to being a global crisis has me thinking maybe Death is slowing the world down.

People panicked. Politicians have either demaogogued or demurred when asked about it. I can’t say I’m confident theu’ss constrain it in time..

The man on the radio said researchers don’t know where the virus came from. They know where the first reported cases are but what kind of virus is it? They don’t know.

3,000 cases in my state. If you calculate the mortality rate in other countries that’s like 900 people gonna die. And we’re talking in the last 6 weeks since the first case rrported in this state.

I called Jamie last night. She didn’t want me worrying. “They’ll figure it out,”she said. She asked to come over but I needed to be alone.

When I was eight years old I came down with the mumps. I didn’t want help from my mother or anyone. I warmed my own soup, poured my ginger ale, did my homework, and took a shower without any help. But the warm body and swollen throat from mumps were nothing compared to blood coughing, pounding headaches, and fainting.

3,000 people in my state infected. Maybe 900 gonna die. And I know grandma Ru was right, ’cus my world has stopped spinning .