April 12, 2020: Moment to moment * Your Turn * Opinion * San Antonio Express News * mySA

Letter to the Editor,

A perspective during a pandemic

It’s interesting to note how life can dramatically change from one instance to the next when a life threatening virus hits the world. 

Everything’s come to a grinding halt. 

One minute everything was life as usual and the next minute everything is life lived in an unusual way. 

We all take so very much for granted. 

And only when we are confronted with our own immortality do we stop and take the time to put life in its proper perspective. 

What truly matters and what is merely superfluous becomes a stark reality. 

There are no longer any large group gatherings, everyone is told to stay home; students no longer go to a school building to learn; now they are being taught online. 

The cost of gasoline is at an all time low, but unfortunately there is nowhere to go with the ominous virus lurking everywhere we go. 

There are no longer any “safe spaces” to protect us from other people. 

We are advised to stay home, to slow the spread, to stay safe. 

The globalists had their time to turn our life upside down and inside out. 

Hopefully we will learn our lessons, not to be dependent upon foreign countries for our safety and well-being. 

Not to rely on cheap foreign manufacturing and low cost foreign trade to keep our country going forward. 

Look how quickly all the “open borders” slammed shut across the world. 

Not because people were racists or xenophobic, but because a deadly virus was being brought into their countries. 

The virus is truly an equal opportunity infector, the virus does not discriminate. 

No matter what your race is, or your religion, your politics, or your profession, if you are wealthy or you are on welfare. If you are exposed and become infected, you may die. 

That is the sad truth. 

Some have conjured up various conspiracy theories, some say it is a chastisement; some call it apocalyptic, some call it merely annoying. 

But everyone has a definite opinion about it all.

Marian Casillas, Ed.D.

Del Rio, Texas