Future
No society can exist without a sense of where it’s going. Not that everyone has to be on board with the same vision. But human beings need a sense of doing things for a reason. Without it we’re in a big stall. That’s how it feels right now. The immediate future is very unclear because of the adaptive nature of the coronavirus. It travels invisibly and silently through the air. To a lesser extent it adheres to surfaces and gets passed on through a touchpoint that goes unwashed. A refusal by a certain percentage of the populace to wear masks that would reduce the likelihood of passing it on is, in effect, a collective declaration of mass stupidity and willful ignorance of basic science. The result is that we are no closer now to resolving the pandemic than we were three months ago. Back then it seemed like there was a purpose to the quarantining and the self-imposed isolation: to flatten the curve, develop herd immunity and make it more likely that we could return to normal. Good luck with that. Turns out we don’t even know if this virus respects herd immunity. There is no conclusive evidence that prior...Read more