Long way from the sentiment that not shaking hands is racist and that Covid-19 is nothing compared to the flu, isn’t it?

Though most will learn nothing, there are lessons here that could in principle be learned: lessons about how complex systems function and then rupture, and about how the measured linearity stressed in education is the least relevant because it leaves you completely unprepared when it truly matters.

Oh, of course no one will allow themselves any edification out of this. They’ll just retrench and then erase it all from memory. But my point is that they could. Enlightenment is available; most just do not want it.