my adult daughter is extremely concerned about covid & how it will effect people physically in the

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11. I increasingly find it hard to fathom how humans have survived this long, given their penchance for

self-destruction and willful ignorance of threats... Not only COVID-19 and other infectious diseases, toxic exposures, climate change, and on and on. So many simply bury their head in the sand or fight the wrong fight (against masks, vaccines, science, regulations).

I fight with people coming in the ER every damned day over the fact that YES, you still have to wear masks and YES, COVID-19 is still circulating (along with flu) and I was the ONLY person wearing a mask (or at least the only one I saw) when I ran into a Walmart store yesterday afternoon for something I've been unable to find elsewhere. A damned mask is really not that big a thing-- at least a surgical mask which is still 65% effective. My entire career has been behind at least a surgical mask, but the public acts as though that is asking them to suit up in full head-to-toe PPE--spacesuit style.

Will humans be here beyond Putin? That, I guess is the first question. Will we survive a reemergence of COVID or the next highly mutated pandemic flu? The famines coming from climate change?

I don't know how people can look at their children and grandchildren, yet continue to cling to so much denial.