It Doesn't Seem REal Unless You're In It

[Me.]

So said the mother of her beloved 22 year old son who died of covid. And I think that, at least partly, explains the disconnect of many people to the pandemic. Hearing a 1000 people have died in one day, day after day, does seem so unreal unless you're one of those heroic beings working in a hospital or a family member/friend. It simply boggles the mind.

[Ferrets are Cool]

1. From the disruptions in our daily lives, it seems real enough to us

Only stupid people don't treat a pandemic as real.

[paleotn]

2. Difficult for many to understand and believe the abstract.

Then add 20+ years of intense propaganda and you have where we are know. Idiocracy, only more violent and not nearly as funny.

[Me.]

3. I GUess They'll Have To Have Someone Close To Them Die

for them to fully grasp it. Part of it is an arrogance that it will never touch them until it does. If more governors and lawmakers got it in a bad way I can guarantee there would be better protections and help put in place.

[Marie Marie]

4. Just heard on Nicole Wallace that people in the hospital, with Covid,

are screaming at the nurses that they do NOT have Covid and that this is all a hoax. If they don't believe their own bodies (note that they are sick enough to be hospitalized), knowing someone who has it, or has died from it still won't convince them. There is no end to their stupidity. Oh Trump, what have you done to my country?

[maxsolomon]

5. We're struggling against Human Nature.

Many find it easy to dismiss what they don't witness with their own eyes.

If you were in America's Hinterlands in the Spring, all the precautions probably felt ridiculous. All the cases were in Gol Dang Soshlyst cities.