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One of the scariest things about the pandemic is how many people I see willingly filling in the blanks of "we don't know yet" with a best case scenario, even as tidbits of data trickle in contradicting that. Then they cry, in unison, "The Spice Must Flow! The Spice Must Flow!"Permalink On twitter.com
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I can envision the people saying, "Schools need to open so I can work!" weeping, a decade or two from now, when their kids keel over from heart attacks or strokes due to lingering effects of undetected MIS-C or COVID-19, and then declaiming, "How could we have known?"Permalink On twitter.com
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There were saner voices: there are level heads now saying, "But we don't know yet, so caution is advised." They're almost always ignored... and somehow the narrative becomes, "Nobody imagined this." Yeah, no, some people did. You just ignored them. It's always been this way.On twitter.com
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(There have always been people who argued for ideas that the vast majority now pretend nobody ever imagined before last year. (My wife observed frustratedly how you can hear the racist assholes of today lying to their grandkids, "*Everyone* thought that way in 2020!")Permalink On twitter.com
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And it doesn't bode well at all for our prospects for handling all the other, bigger crises that are heading down the pipe toward us at the moment. Not at all. Not saying anything new, maybe. But I wanted it on record: people were saying this in 2020.Permalink On twitter.com
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(And yes, it's not just kids at risk, but kids are vulnerable and dependent on us to make sensible decisions despite our stress and exhaustion and all that. Even in places where this is being handled best, I'm not really seeing much wisdom on an institutional level.)Permalink On twitter.com