There's a few new buzz words that have entered our vocabulary in the past couple of months, as talk of the COVID-19 pandemic, like the virus itself, grinds on.
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We've all very quickly come to realise coronavirus has nothing to do with a beer so pungent it needs a lemon in it, flattening the curve has nothing to do with woodwork, architecture or any physical structure, and bending the curve is not as easy as it sounds.
Working from home is known as WFH to those of us here at Australian Community Media.
Hangouts are virtual - on Google, so too chats; while Zoom is yet another platform to meet online.
Adjusting to the new world has required a major shift - and not just geographically.
By now, the vast majority of us who can are working from home, something we once all thought would be a nice option from time to time, but something that has now become essential.
Six months ago, none of us would have thought working from home, not going out, not meeting up with friends and family and not travelling would be the absolute best thing we can do to help save lives and stop something called COVID-19 in its tracks.
But that is the world we share, for now.
As each long day melts away at night time, looking through the pages of the Addy from my home office as they gradually progress through a steady stream of checking and cross-checking, it's been tough sometimes to read stories about local people and local businesses who have experienced the worst of the downturn.
Many of them I know, and all of them I feel for.
Their resilience, innovation and steadfast refusal to give in to this crisis is inspiring, and captured best in the words and photos the Addy team have produced these past few weeks.
These people are one of the many human faces of the unprecedented times we find ourselves in.
There are the heroes on the frontline - the health professionals and the associated agencies and businesses delivering essential services and support in the fight against COVID-19.
And there are the people behind the scenes helping them.
Then there's the people who have lost work and lost a lot of their business.
For them, knowing your JobSeeker support package from your JobKeeper support package could be the difference between the ultimate success or failure of what they've worked so hard for, in many cases for decades.
If we didn't know what PPE was a few weeks ago, we all should by now.
The response from readers of this paper, and thousands of other Australians to the calls from medicos for more Personal Protective Equipment, has been astounding, and one of the most heart warming actions to emerge from all this.
Ordinary people wanting to do whatever they can to help, not just because they can, but because they want to.
In a week where almost 17 per cent of our nation's GDP was carved up by the federal parliament to try and ward off a pandemic inspired depression, the significance of the challenges we face in the coming months and years ahead, really hit home.
The reality is, none of us know what lies ahead when this murkiness clears.
For now, it's the short term responses that we can and must respond to.
Checking in on family, on staff, and on your mates has never been more important.
No one needs to feel socially isolated.
I couldn't put a price on the value of a couple of virtual sneaky beers with a bunch of mates last Friday.
An earlier ill-fated effort the week prior left me frustrated and bitterly disappointed at the technology failure (maybe that was my failure) and missing out on the group chat.
A sign of the times, perhaps.
This weekend will be first time many of us have not been with our families for Easter.
That's tough.
For all of us.
But it's a price we must pay to keep a lid on the number of COVID-19 cases in our community, and ultimately, to protect ourselves and our families.
If events of the past month have taught me one thing, it's that the things with material value actually don't matter as much as we probably thought they once did.
The connection to partners, family, friends and work colleagues have always mattered more.
If we can all remember that when this pandemic eventually passes and we return to whatever a normal world is meant to be, the world will be a much better place.
Happy Easter.