What Is Normal Now?: The COVID-19 Pandemic from My Perspective as a Senior Citizen

Earlier this year, I went about my business as usual as did most of my fellow Americans. Then 2020 COVID-19 pandemic gripped our country, and the nightmare began.

The nightmare was particularly frightening to our senior citizen, elder population. Also targeted were people with autoimmune disease and preexisting conditions.

All Americans had our freedoms and liberties taken away in the blink of an eye, our faith was challenged, our schools were closed, and businesses shut down indefinitely.

We lost all sense of normalcy. It was mind-boggling.

I was inspired to write about the different challenges we were facing, and the idea wouldn't leave me until I began writing.

This is my account of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic from my perspective as a senior citizen labeled as the most vulnerable.