Managing Fear

Almost two years ago, the normal television feeds of news, sitcoms and game shows was interrupted by Breaking News. A deadly virus was identified in China.

We can fill in our own story line based on the news sources each of us subscribes to, and we might be right, or we might be part of the flock. Since then we’ve seen restrictions, social guidelines, varying mask and vaccine requirements, variants and a generally higher level of fear.

The political cartoonists are not wrong to point out just as society begins to breathe easier we get a new issue. A conflict most of us do not have the abi...