The Coronavirus Survival Guide to Not Being an Ass in These Times

The coronavirus pandemic is no excuse to forget your home training

Luvvie Ajayi Jones
ZORA

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WeWe have found ourselves in some interesting times, where everything is topsy-turvy and nothing makes sense. Covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, is a crisis layered on top of all the other madness we’ve had to deal with—for example, there is a locust invasion in Kenya right now.

I feel like we’re in some sort of Dark Timeline and that we broke the space-time continuum on November 6, 2016, when Cheeto Satan got elected as president of the United States, therefore leader of the free world. Nothing has been right since. Not a gahtdamb thing. It’s like something broke in the universe.

Things have been rough, and then you throw in a global pandemic plot twist, and I’m outdone. My anxiety is through the roof, and I’m expecting Black Jesus to swoop down at any moment to come collect us because we’re in utter shambles down here. For real, who would have seen any of this coming??? There’s a virus that is highly contagious, moving across the world, and now we have to stay in the house.

We have too much going on, so it is time for everyone to be aware of not adding trash behavior to the…

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Luvvie Ajayi Jones
ZORA
Writer for

2x NYTimes best-selling author, speaker and podcast host. Latest book: Professional Troublemaker: The Fear-Fighter Manual. The goal is to loan people courage.