On the Covid memory hole
July 14, 2022•107 words
Here we are again. Back in March of 2020. Yet it's radically different.
What is different? Back in early 2020, the news of a rapidly-spreading virus was top news. It was exciting. It was novel. It dragged our minds out of a morass and apathy, and gave us all, collectively, something to focus on. To fight together for.
Now, we are fed up. We've stopped paying attention to the ravages of Covid because ... less risk of death. That's pretty much it. No worries about unknown long-term symptoms that would make death seem like a reprieve.
Update from December: Nothing is getting better.