From Dust To Dust

As sunlight poured into my bedroom through the eastern windows, I was performing a morning ritual, pulling up the sheets and blankets on the bed, shaking out the pillows and there, highlighted by the angle of the sun, were hundreds - probably more like thousands – of dust particles floating in the air. I've noticed this spectacle before but in these times, when the world is gripped by a pandemic, it felt significant of much more than simple household dust. Those particles of dust - much larger than the microscopic coronavirus - are omnipresent, visible sometimes but mostly not.

Can we think about the coronavirus in the same way?  It could be all around you all the time but you do not see. And thinking about that potentially lethal virus strain in that way should make us even more conscious of putting on our masks, washing our hands and avoiding crowds, especially in confined spaces.