Anything from COVID-19 to civil unrest – we see little glimpses of this as we live our lives day to day. Our world took a turn and we have not yet turned back. We adapt, but sometimes we do not adopt – we get cranky when we think about it too hard, and some of us just try not to think about it. What else can you do? None of us can wish it away, pretend it does not exist, think it away, or rebel against it – it is impossible. Boy have we seen all of the versions of those behaviors! What a deal, huh? All very much “human behavior” – as predicted.
Of the recent past, an encounter in the grocery store, told us again that people are “tense” and they can lash out for the most nonsensical reasons, spouting assertions that make no connection to reality. What we do know is that we are all on edge by now – all recognizing that our world will continue to change and there is no real end in sight to that – guess that the changes are just more in our faces than we typically witness. The combination of the crazy presidential situation and the disease being pervasive – now a driver of how we have to live and interact with other people in our environment – these factors really emphasize the fragility of the human condition.
I just hope that this resolves into something of a normal that does not make our lives more complicated as time goes on – as it already does become that way as we age – things just become more difficult to do without help. Sad to know that we have people who have contracted COVID, have died or are now severely disabled – who do not have a voice to stand up and say to people who make light of it – you need to pay attention! COVID knows no political affiliations, it knows no geography, it knows no age boundaries, or gender boundaries – it just knows it wants to survive and it needs hosts in order to do that. As our neighbor who is a doctor says, it will mutate to a less severe form in order to continue to survive. Not good for those with underlying health conditions, maybe better for those who may become less severely afflicted, but the unpredictable nature of which set people fall into prevails.
We only see that people need to be safe until such time as we can be given vaccines and better medications are developed so that we can understand how we will survive if we happen to be infected.
