Regular folks will freak out, which is always fun to watch. Neurotics will go absolutely apeshit in a more dramatic-than-usual way, clearing out supermarket shelves of all the salted nuts for some reason (highly entertaining). Hypochondriacs will have their moment, basking in the glow of the validation they’ll finally receive from friends and family for having already committed to memory every country on the CDC website we’re banned from visiting. Face masks will become de rigueur and secretly embraced by the whole family: testosterone-challenged dads trying to grow mid-life goatees, sullen teens afflicted by cheek acne, and moms who’ll no…
Author: V.C. Chickering
V.C. Chickering
V.C. Chickering is a humorist/lyricist/novelist (TWISTED FAMILY VALUES, and NOOKIETOWN, St. Martin’s Press) and her writing and essays have been published in the Washington Post, Cosmo, and BUST magazines, as well as on-air for Comedy Central, MTV, Lifetime, Oxygen, and others.