Country music singer Dolly Parton sees a bright side to the coronavirus pandemic.
“I’m not making light of the situation. Well, maybe I am, because it’s the light, I believe, that’s gonna dissolve the situation,” the music artist said in an Instagram video posted over the weekend. “I think God is in this, I really do. I think he’s trying to hold us up to the light so we can see ourselves and see each other through the eyes of love. And I hope we learn that lesson.”
“I think that when this passes, we’re gonna all be better people,” she added. “So I know that I have a positive attitude about it, as negative as it seems to be right now. So just keep the faith, don’t be too scared, it’s gonna be alright, God loves us.”
Nearly 150,000 confirmed cases of the coronavirus have been reported in the United States, according to the Johns Hopkins University tracker. More than 2,500 people have died, and 4,800 people have recovered from the illness.
President Trump said Sunday that he was extending federal social distancing guidelines through April 30 and warned he expected the peak of the pandemic in the country to occur in two weeks.
