I really don’t want to deal with any of this, and so I’ve bought for myself a soft, fuzzy denial blanket under which I now reside. Out of sight and hearing are those nasty problems: COVID-19, climate change, and others. Under my blanket I don’t have to do anything about them. If asked how I justify my inaction, well there are plenty of suspect excuses in various media sources upon which I can hold up as support. Many other people have a similar blanket, and it seems to work great!
The blanket works for a while, until the ever-increasing consequences come along and rudely tear the blanket away, demanding to be dealt with, now larger and more difficult, if even possible to now do anything about. For COVID, we may not yet be dealing with the worst consequences. Consider that as that virus simmers in our species there is the continuing opportunity for mutations yielding variants that may be even more contagious and fatal. We have no control over the virus mutating. We do have some control over how to reduce the spread and hopefully stamp it out. Time to come out from under the blanket.
