In the time of Coronavirus

I miss Marineland.

WTH, people?! I go away for a few years and now the worst has occurred- coronavirus, Covid-19. Through a hilarious series of mishaps and literal fumbles, our dear leaders let several windows of opportunity close and now we’re all apparently doomed.

How’re things going? Social distancing is hard, even for an introvert (I’m not talking about myself, per se)! But in all the humanity-related miseries we wake up to each day, there is a silver lining; humanity’s breather from destroying the earth has shown us just how resilient the earth is, actually.

We used to see stories about how, now that Chernobyl is uninhabited by humanity, the natural ecosystem is flourishing and thriving like never before. Now, with the reductions of thuggish humans along the canals of Venice, the water is a beautiful, clear, Mediterranean blue from lack of boating activity. That’s just one of the many stories and I’ll update at some point with more links (if you’re into that positivity thing).

From this article on the NatGeo site, it says there are now “animals thriving among human quarantine” spate of fake news stories. But then Snopes pops off with “it’s a mixed bag of truth and BS.” Who are we to believe?!