Of course, the exciting thing about what's going on during this earth-crumbling moment is that our economies will abruptly shift onto a more level playing field.

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...