There are very few people alive today who have experienced much of anything like what the world is currently going through with the COVID-19 pandemic, which as of this writing has afflicted over 700,000 people worldwide and taken the lives of over 34,000. It’s important to understand that we are nowhere near the end, either. In the United States alone, some estimates predict that we could see deaths in the number of the hundreds of thousands.
It’s fair to say that this is an unprecedented situation for nearly everyone going through it. It’s difficult to be prepared for something that is novel, and no amount of preparation could have ever fully accounted for it.