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and it ain't over yet
Jan. 28th, 2022 01:12 pm"Since January 2020, at least 1 in 5 people who live in Michigan have been infected, and at least 1 in 313 people have died."
That was in my email this morning, and I was thinking again, as I do sometimes, along the lines of "If you'd told us in February 2020 that that was going to happen, ...."
I think that about the higher peaks in the graphs, too. Like what we thought was a crazy high peak later became a slightly higher low-level bump on the overall graph.
Had a flash this morning of gut understanding/sympathy with folks being so averse to how horrible it is they'd rather go with it all being no big deal really, or with some other variation on or extent of denial. You know, "Yeah, but those dead people are mostly old people" being one of the first variations you could tell yerself, if you wanted, as if you and yours aren't susceptible.
That said, one can go the other way in an extreme way, and the glums'll get ya if you're not careful. Especially if you're susceptible to that like the unvaccinated are susceptible to bad disease experience.
All the "don't look up" type stuff is part of human nature, on the mass-of-people level, like how we know we'll stampede each other in a panic or turn on each other if certain conditions are in place. The excess caution thing seems more an individual human anxiety coping part of human nature for some.
Driving down my street last night, with something on the radio about how the pandemic isolation has altered social education for kids, I had one of those flashes I also get of how it's been easier on me in some ways than on most people, what with my already having some custom of living alone, and not having to worry about infecting or getting infected by coinhabitants, or not having family gatherings I'm going to or not going to, or not being cooped up with an abusive partner. But there are ways it's been harder than it's been on some, too.
A topic for discussion down the road (?):
How I Coped with the Pandemic: _______________
(TBD)
note: no answers from those who died
That was in my email this morning, and I was thinking again, as I do sometimes, along the lines of "If you'd told us in February 2020 that that was going to happen, ...."
I think that about the higher peaks in the graphs, too. Like what we thought was a crazy high peak later became a slightly higher low-level bump on the overall graph.
Had a flash this morning of gut understanding/sympathy with folks being so averse to how horrible it is they'd rather go with it all being no big deal really, or with some other variation on or extent of denial. You know, "Yeah, but those dead people are mostly old people" being one of the first variations you could tell yerself, if you wanted, as if you and yours aren't susceptible.
That said, one can go the other way in an extreme way, and the glums'll get ya if you're not careful. Especially if you're susceptible to that like the unvaccinated are susceptible to bad disease experience.
All the "don't look up" type stuff is part of human nature, on the mass-of-people level, like how we know we'll stampede each other in a panic or turn on each other if certain conditions are in place. The excess caution thing seems more an individual human anxiety coping part of human nature for some.
Driving down my street last night, with something on the radio about how the pandemic isolation has altered social education for kids, I had one of those flashes I also get of how it's been easier on me in some ways than on most people, what with my already having some custom of living alone, and not having to worry about infecting or getting infected by coinhabitants, or not having family gatherings I'm going to or not going to, or not being cooped up with an abusive partner. But there are ways it's been harder than it's been on some, too.
A topic for discussion down the road (?):
How I Coped with the Pandemic: _______________
(TBD)
note: no answers from those who died
