FOCO And The Vacationless Summer

Shani Silver
6 min readAug 19, 2020

Is my Fear Of Covid worse than everyone else’s?

Living room window views. It ain’t the beach, but it ain’t contagious either.

Because Instagram hasn’t given birth to enough neurosis, meet FOCO: The Fear of Covid. It’s the deep, pervasive fear that if I go anywhere, I’m going to get a gnarly virus that kills some people but is probably just going to give me the worst flu of my life with symptoms that could last ’til Christmas. Oh and I’m single, so there’s no one to take care of me…

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