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Renowned Nigerian author, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has averred that she gets worried every morning when her husband, who is a doctor, leaves for work due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The writer took to her social media page to express her concern while reflecting on how the novel virus has become dreadful to humanity.
She said the novel disease has made life generally unpredictable that she now gets worried at the slightest happening in her family.
“Last week, my family suffered a devastating tragedy, the very sudden death of my closest aunt, from a brain aneurysm. One day she was well and happy and the next day she was gone. Our time is filled with pain whose cause still does not feel fully true. We cry and yet we feel as though she is not really gone,” she wrote on Instagram.
“And it is more surreal to grieve a sudden death in these strange times when the world has shut down, places once full are empty, heavy with the ghosts of silent gatherings, and across the world people are dying alone. Coronavirus is a menace in the air, a menace inside our heads. Every day I am reminded of how fragile, how breakable we are.
“My husband is a doctor and each morning when he leaves for work, I worry. My daughter coughs and I worry. My throat itches and I worry. On Facetime I watch my elderly parents. I admonish them gently: Don’t let people come to the house. Don’t read the rubbish news on WhatsApp.”
The gifted author however urged people to try and contend with the inherent challenges brought about by the pandemic.
“This is a time to cope in the best way we can. There are moments when our spirits will sag. Moments when we will feel tired after doing absolutely nothing. But how can we not? The world as it is today is foreign to us. It would be strange not to be shaken to our core,” she added.