What Covid Has Taught Me

Sometimes even the experts don’t have the answers. When Covid first entered our lives, we felt blindsided. We were afraid, and we didn’t know how to protect ourselves, so we turned to the expert for answers. The problem with that was the experts didn’t have the answers. The recommendations seemed to change daily, and it caused people to lose faith in the people they need to trust. I can appreciate it more when someone says they don’t have a definitive answer than when someone continually sends out information that fluctuates each day.

People perceive what the media presents to us in different ways.

My husband does not enjoy watching the nightly news because he says they are trying to promote fear by making everything sound dire. I didn’t understand this perception until we were watching it together and he reacted to a piece about voting, and I realized that like many other things it all depends on your perception because what he saw as too dramatic was only normal reporting to me.

There can be peace in the middle of chaos. I was teaching in 2020 when we were told we had a day to bring home what we needed to teach remotely. We were going into a lockdown. People were scared, uncertain of what to do, nervous about catching the virus, and as teachers, we were nervous about providing good lessons. I felt peaceful through most of it. I decided to have faith that I would take things a day at a time and deal with whatever each day brought. We can always choose how we react.