New New Thing

Chill Uncategorized

I feel sad for Alice and all the people like her. Really I do, even though I don’t understand. Triple-vaxxed and still afraid to go outside. What kind of sense does that make? The reality is that they are going to be this way for life now. It’ll never get better for them because there will always be some new threat on the horizon, some new harbinger of doom.

There’s more sympathy in me for Alice than for others because she doesn’t seem to want to force others to stay inside and not travel, unlike a lot of similar people who are now terrified of the world. That’s something. But I don’t understand the terror and I guess I never will. The pandemic showed once again that most people, even those who consider themselves smart, are incredibly easy to frighten and to then to manipulate based on that fear.