One of the toughest things many of us are facing today is a very clear realignment in our relationships with the people around us. Allan Stevo has a beautiful essay on how it's okay and natural to part paths with friends in a time such as this. I found his take to be very reassuring.
Like it or not, we're living through truly historic times. Someday, your children's children may ask you about what it was like during the Shame Wars. Will you be able to tell them you were on the right side?
We live in a time where a large number of people live in a kind of manufactured normality. When we stop questioning what we are being told, we can fail to see what we should notice rather than what we're being told to notice.
The most unsettling aspect of the ongoing pandemic isn't necessarily the threat posed by a particular virus. It's the destruction of our remaining liberty by the systems that are working overtime to rule us. Judge Andrew Napolitano has a very clear explanation of what is being done and why it is incompatible with legimitate government.