The presence of COVID-19 has been a strange, somewhat surreal experience for most people I have spoken with. I think there is genuine confusion about how we should respond as average citizens to a crisis of this magnitude.
There is, however, a varying uniqueness added to this reaction when you are someone who was already sick before this came around.
I have been chronically ill since childhood; I have no real memories of what life was really like before my first diagnosis.
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