"Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, grapple them unto thy soul with hoops of steel."

"This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man."       ...

It's hard ... very hard.  COVID-19 is burning through communities & nations and we currently don't have a vaccine or other obvious medical protection against it.  Interestingly age makes a difference.  Older people ... like me (I'm due to be 70 in a couple of weeks time) ... are more at risk of bad outcomes if we catch the virus.  And I bet...

"Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognised moral qualities of men" (and women)  Confucius

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than one's fear"  James Hollingworth

1.) Values:  ...