Pandemic Journal May 22: What Part of the Story Are We In?

It's been hard to write lately.
It's hard to concentrate, hard to be creative, hard to keep my butt in the chair and focus.
Before starting a writing project there are questions to keep in mind:
What is the main goal?
How will the characters grow from this?
What is the main crisis of the story?
With our current story, called Covid-19 Pandemic, we don't even know what part of the story we are in.


Are we at the end? The middle? Or, are we still at the beginning?

I think we are still at the beginning of Covid-19 Pandemic, but things are opening.
States are opening for political
and economical reasons. Not for safety reasons. I'm convinced if you were able to get the health director drunk and alone, she would tell you the decision is against her better judgement.
But, the hospitals are waiting and hotels are waiting for patient overflow or recovery.
The wheels of the economy need to start turning again. And we are all getting "quarantine fatigue" (though, we can look back to our ancestors for strength and inspiration--they had to deal with this on a regular basis, and often for a year or two at a stretch!).

If cases rise after opening, we will all be back at home again. It's a faulty plan but one made with consideration of the numbers and not much choice.