I think making jokes and making a light of it is just how many people cope. It’s not better or worse than whatever other methods. I am sure they worry about themselves and their loved ones just the same. They just express it differently. My brother, my dad and I exchange really dark humor with all kind of bizarre memes on the topic. Wouldn’t share it here. It doesn’t mean we think it’s no big deal or we aren’t freaking out. We are very much freaking out.

Yesterday my husband found crazy songs about coronavirus on you tube, played them to me and laughed his head off. Stupidest stuff. Well his Tourettes and OCD are through the roof these days plus he doesn’t have a luxury to be cooped up at home like lucky me, he is hospital RN so he is on a frontline every day. He just finds that looking up funny stuff keeps him sane. That’s how he copes. It’s not uncommon to cope by laughing or joking.

You cope differently. It’s just how you are. Not less normal. Different.

Bottom line I don’t know what’s normal. Many people struggle with depression or anxiety or whatever else On a regular day. Not everyone demonstrates it the same way. Not everyone shows it or they show it differently. Being depressed or upset or angry about this is pretty much new normal.