New Normal?

What with the Corvid-19 virus practically turning thriving communities into ghost towns there ought to be a lot to write about. Except, of course, none of this is make believe.  It is real that our downtown is fairly quiet on Friday and Saturday nights. It is real that all of my clubs I belong to and weekly activities  are cancelled. It is real that people are dying. It is real that people are practically huddling in fear. It is real that panic can make us do some crazy things. A good mystery writer would use panic buying as a coverup to murder! Or they might use Corvid-19 as a murder weapon as someone tried to do years ago with HIV/AIDS. A good novelist, thinking along Gothic lines, uses this as a major character/ backdrop to the drama of the conditions of human-kind.

Our photo club is tasked with documenting the “new normal” which is going to be interesting. I am starting a list of ideas for shooting and it in itself is interesting. For example, at the city all they’re blocking out the waiting line to pay bills with red-duct tape. At Rotary Park there is a sign with the six-foot separation instructions. Not unusual? Of course it is not unusual. That is what makes it the new normal. With enough of us working on this we should come up with a decent portfolio.

If nothing else, keeping a diary of this part of our lives is a good writing habit. We have some stories retained from the days of Spanish Flu and the Plague which sometimes helps us see and understand what other generations have gone through. What we have today is a much better way to publish and keep such records. It is worth a try.
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