So this is it now. The world of this virus pandemic, the social-distancing, self-quarantining, flattening the curve and all the strange new things we have to deal with in our ever more cloistered and socially-confined new lives. How long does this go on? When and how will this end?

Oh dear, sweet Universe, please give me the strength to hold myself together here...

It's going to take some persuasion. Even when the clocks of doomsday have been chiming loudly, every hour upon the hour, humans continue now, at the eleventh hour to willfully ignore the signs that something's coming to a close.