You can't quarantine joy

Several days ago, while watching the endless news about coronavirus I heard a newscaster say something that has stuck with me, "You can't quarantine tears".

As I thought about this, even when trying to go to sleep and find some semblance of rest during these challenging times, the words kept playing over and over again in my head, "You can't quarantine tears". He was absolutely right, you can't.

We can't quarantine suffering either. Never have and probably never will. We can't quarantine fear. Fear mainly of the unknown which is far greater than fear of the known. Fear of the known we can...