05-21-2020, 01:14 AM
(05-20-2020, 09:52 PM)beechnut79 Wrote: In what ways might you feel as though the whole saga of COVID-19 have a perfect storm quality to it? Do you feel that it is now the essential workers/first responders turn to shine? Might there still be those who may want to play and shut out and ignore anything ugly that is ruining any and all picture perfect days? Might we call this the Nero fiddle syndrome? Sometimes life is messy and not exactly what we’d envisioned.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FYym0J-2KEQ
Every noble cause needs its heroes. We know who those are. Some people do dumb stuff. Nathan Hale is a hero. The fellow who does something stupid with a hand grenade and dies of that stupidity is a schmuck. The person who breaks into a dog-infested house and gets mauled is a schmuck. (A man's home is his castle and his dog's jungle).
People have attended church services that led to mass infections. People have participated in "Liberate (State)" rallies and contracted the Plague of 2020. Anyone who expects mystical protection from COVID-19 is a fool. I wear a mask to a take-out booth as well as to a food store, gas station, or pharmacy. I hope that I do not need to attend any funerals.
I try to be nice. I thank people for wearing masks. Positive reinforcement is exactly what some people want to hear; they don't get enough of it. When libraries and bookstores open up I will wear a mask.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.