PERSONAL EFFECTS OF THIS CORONAVIRUS THING AND COPING WITH IT. A helpful article which frames our response as ‘grief’, as described by Kubler-Ross years ago. “There’s denial, which we say a lot of early on: ‘This virus won’t affect us’. There’s anger: ‘You’re making me stay home and taking away my activities’. There’s bargaining: ‘Okay, if I social distance for two weeks everything will be better, right?’ There’s sadness: ‘I don’t know when this will end’. And finally there’s acceptance. ‘This is happening; I have to figure out how to proceed’.” Directing your attention to this helpful article is a departure from my usual recommendations, but just at the moment, very little is usual. By the way, Kubler-Ross described these ‘stages’ in people approaching death rather than people grieving, but that’s another story. They provide a useful framework for understanding and dealing with predicaments such as the one we face now.
https://hbr.org/2020/03/that-discomfort-youre-feeling-is-grief