White (the color, not my last name) by Jordyn White
This month's blog topic is current events. But how am I supposed to find a "unique" current event when every news headline has to do with the CO-VID 19? It seems that we are witnessing a global pandemic , a status just recently granted to the virus by WHO, and everything in our world seems to revolve around the devastation (potential and physical) that can or will be caused by this virus. The stock market is at its lowest point since 1987 , global and domestic sports events are canceled , schools are shutting down and cleaned, and travel bans to many European and Asian countries have been put in place. In the midst of all this panic, I've been thinking a lot about all the epidemic movies I've grown up on, how Coronavirus is different or the same from the Hollywood adaptation of such events. Without further ado, I present an abstract piece I call "White" (the color, not my last name), which is a reflection on the iso...