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I was able to talk to my best friend on the phone last night. She's married with kids, and lives several states away, but we've been friends since kindergarten and best friends since 5th grade and it's always great to touch base with her. She has to deal with a suddenly work-from-home husband, basically homeschool her school-age kids, and watch the toddler at the same time. Makes me grateful all I have to do is sit in a chair and hope students ask me questions.

One of the things that stuck out about our conversation though is how the uncertainty is worse than any fear of the virus itself. How long will we be stuck at home? How strict with the restrictions get? Will the economic disaster this is becoming actually end up killing more people than the virus? Note, I don't think it will, at least not directly. But health outcomes are worse for those in lower wealth brackets, and a lot of people are suffering from the economy right now.

We also talked about how hard it is to miss church - I was able to go yesterday for the last time for the foreseeable future, but she (a devout Catholic) hasn't had communion in a few weeks and there is no end in sight. How long will it be? What are we going to do about Easter, the holiest and most important day of the year? Catholics and Orthodox aren't like some of the Protestant churches my friend heard about who are talking about holding Easter services in the summer. We have our tradition and church calendar and Lent and all of that, culminating in the celebration of Christ's resurrection. We can't move it. But we also can't risk lives, can't be the reason the celebration of Life begets death.