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We've literally suffered worse than this in every single one of those facets throughout human history.

Go back and ask the 50%+ of the European population that died from the Black Plague (that took them almost 200 years to recover from) if they'd be willing to come forward and trade places with us. For that matter, go back and ask the tens of millions of people dying from the Spanish Flu in the middle of a global war if they'd trade places with us.

I get that this looks absolutely unprecedented to people who've spent the first 20+ years of their lives coddled and wrapped in bubble wrap and who mostly slept through history class, but this is nowhere near as game-breaking as some people have convinced themselves it is. The human race will certainly survive, most of modern society and culture will survive, and in the end you'll be extremely surprised just how status quo everything winds up feeling after everything's said and done.

My mother spent most of her childhood being told hiding under a desk would protect her from the explosive nuclear war that was almost certainly inevitably just around the corner. As a young adult, she watched as men landed on the moon and was told it was going to usher in an entirely new age of space exploration and human expansion. When I was an adult, some people were flying planes into buildings in a terrorist attack, and people were screaming about how nothing was ever going to be the same again and how could anyone ever truly feel safe again? That last one only really lasted for a year or two until everything pretty much went back to business as normal.

I know it can be hard to separate yourself from situations when you're in the middle of them, but things are almost never as bad as you think they are at the time. Life will go on.