Normally when someone is ill/sick you make chicken soup and take some over. Offer to do errands. Mow the lawn. Whatever needs doing you offer to do if you can.
NOW you dare not go near him/her.
Normally when someone is dying you go to visit them and to hold hands and tell them how much you love them.
NOW you are forcibly BARRED from doing anything like that.
I think for NORMAL human beings helping when as and if we can comes naturally. That is being stifled prevented blocked. Only physically. Mentally and emotionally it is killing us figuratively.
How much longer? No one knows. And that's the name of that tune.
