Contribute to our community poem: COVID-19 is…

What is your COVID-19 experience? We’re starting an ongoing community poem of sorts to chronicle the complexities of this life-altering experience. Send us a one-liner (or five), and we’ll add your lines to the list.

To participate, simply comment on our Facebook group discussion, or email editor@inputfortwayne.com. #COVID19is

We’re going to kick things off to show you how it’s done.

Week One
COVID-19 is…

• suffering through low-quality internet
• becoming an at-home barista
• deciding what limited food to spend your limited money on
• triaging what departments in an organization are worth saving
• trying to convince people their job is not “essential” so a building can isolate and close
• struggling through technology issues in Excel remotely and not in person
• filling out reports justifying things that we should be doing anyway
• trying to schedule meetings in days full of meetings
• attempting communication with locked-in relatives
• building frameworks to emerge stronger in an already turbulent environment
• feeling bored one minute and overwhelmed the next
• wondering why all these meetings weren’t emails in the first place
• putting on a nice shirt for video conferences, so they don’t know you’re wearing pajama bottoms
• …