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It’s grim - to start a new year, tweeting about the pandemic. But here we are.
I’ve spent the past months coming to terms with the fact that most of my neighbors - & a huge swath of America - know of Covid’s lethality, & simply do not care.
They know it’s a very real threat.../1
2/...to their health/lives, & to the health/lives of others. And they do not care.
They don’t.
They care about their wants. Their level of enjoyment of the moment. That’s what they care about.
Not whether they’re sick or dead.
Or whether their loved ones are sick or dead.
3/ It’s nihilism. And it has taken root in our society.
We must grasp this, so that we can stop expending energy trying to get them to care.
They won’t.
They don’t.
I’ll share just one example, from within my own circle.
My daughter is an equestrian. Quite good, actually...
4/ And we had to stop her training at the barn she’s always known due to their lack of vigilance with Covid (she’s at a different barn now). But she’ll still mask up & go visit the horses she trained & loves.
Just before Christmas, we brought peppermints to the horses...
5/...& ran into her old trainer. A lovely young woman, who can not grasp why we are no longer at the barn - despite how well we’ve known each other (for years now).
She knows our reason, she believes Covid is real, yet - doesn’t understand why we’re reacting the way we have.
I’ve spent the past months coming to terms with the fact that most of my neighbors - & a huge swath of America - know of Covid’s lethality, & simply do not care.
They know it’s a very real threat.../1
The sound of sirens is near-constant in parts of LA.
— Soumya (@skarlamangla) January 1, 2021
But when 911 patients make it to the hospital, they've had to wait up to 8 hours for care, because hospitals are so overwhelmed. "We are in the midst of a disaster," said the head of LA's EMS agency. https://t.co/jXgMUug3H4
2/...to their health/lives, & to the health/lives of others. And they do not care.
They don’t.
They care about their wants. Their level of enjoyment of the moment. That’s what they care about.
Not whether they’re sick or dead.
Or whether their loved ones are sick or dead.
3/ It’s nihilism. And it has taken root in our society.
We must grasp this, so that we can stop expending energy trying to get them to care.
They won’t.
They don’t.
I’ll share just one example, from within my own circle.
My daughter is an equestrian. Quite good, actually...
4/ And we had to stop her training at the barn she’s always known due to their lack of vigilance with Covid (she’s at a different barn now). But she’ll still mask up & go visit the horses she trained & loves.
Just before Christmas, we brought peppermints to the horses...
5/...& ran into her old trainer. A lovely young woman, who can not grasp why we are no longer at the barn - despite how well we’ve known each other (for years now).
She knows our reason, she believes Covid is real, yet - doesn’t understand why we’re reacting the way we have.