I Wish It Weren’t So. . .
Wishes don’t control the world
by Mike Meyer ~ Honolulu ~ May 21, 2021
The pandemic is not over. No one wants to hear that, and I’m sorry to say it. Even medical professionals, epidemiologists, and the people who know what is going on are compelled to say what people want to hear. And they know the shakiness of the premature release from the rules of the pandemic.
We are nowhere near 70% vaccination in America and will probably never get there given the significant percentage of our population’s slide into political insanity. The very people most directly affected by that political insanity are the repository of continuing waves of infection.
What is happening is a critical human failure in judgment complicated by our inability to stand up to the abusive whining of those unable to understand much of anything beyond their own immediate desires. This is not new. If it were, we might have some hope.
The real tragedy is the inevitable failures of judgment by professional and capable people who succumb to the volume of noise we generate. This is the noise that is killing us. The great majority in post-modern cultures have trouble understanding the nature of that noise and its sources as it overwhelms us.
