marisa tomei's looks in 'my cousin vinny,' as covid-19 feelings

Taking photos of the outdoors during a sanity-keeping walk around the neighborhood

Watching reckless idiots clustered at a bar down the road, elbow-to-elbow

Showing off how nice you smell after a shower, during quarantine

Realising only your partner is going to know how nice you smell, for a while

Feeling vaguely impressed with the meals you've created out of canned food and non-perishables, while also feeling a certain ennui setting in, the Ennui of Perpetual Beans

Watching beautiful spring weather blossom outside your window, and knowing you will only be able to enjoy it in small doses for a bit, when what you really want is to run outside with your arms wide open and sprawl out on a densely-picnicked field somewhere, laughing and sharing beers with friends, no cares in the world but whether the ice will last long enough to keep the cooler chilled, oh fuck it's going to be a really long April, and it's not even April

Leading your friends away from bad science and rumors

Briefly invigorated by the thought that you might actually finish your screenplay in quarantine!

Deciding you and your partner will not isolate from each other because your apartment is too small, so for all purposes you've become a single organism, which I guess is kind of hot, for like a day or two, before it becomes gross

When the UK government says they're going for "herd immunity"

When the UK government decides actually they are NOT going for "herd immunity"

When someone still doesn't understand why universal healthcare is necessary

Watching local governments and institutions rise to the challenge of protecting their residents, while the national government does nothing

Why is there so much laundry involved in quarantine

When your friend says "I'm going out tonight, but it's fine, I'm healthy"

Me, looking at all the UK journalists who think that the government is doing a great job

A wee stroll around the neighborhood for some fresh air, practicing social distancing, except from your partner, because remember you're a single organism now!

Putting on your best outfit in isolation and thinking about whether it'd be in bad taste to post a hot selfie this early on

Strutting around the apartment in your best outfit being ignored by your partner who is actually trying to "work" "from home"

Feeling briefly smug that you don't have any investments (ha! ha!) then realising the recession's going to hit you anyway, so channeling your energy into really nailing your eyebrows, which is something small and within your control

ALL OF US

When you see your friends doing an amazing job of social distancing and coming up with new ways to have fun and stay close without spreading a killer virus!!

Watching heartwarming videos of Italians making beautiful music from their balconies in quarantine!!

Coming up with a blog post idea while streaming My Cousin Vinny, while your parents watch it at the same time back home in Chicago, because it's a film you watched together a dozen times when you were growing up

Sharing links from reputable sources with your friends, explaining why extreme measures are the only way to prevent extreme devastation

Trying to focus on what the World Health Organisation is saying and ignore whatever's coming out of Trump's mouth

When government officials say that the virus spreads only when you're symptomatic

All of us, riding off in our metaphorical convertibles, cool breeze running through our hair, when we get through this, which we will.