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Your Age of Discontinuity
I wish we would all quit acting like everything was ânormal,â implying steady and predictable, before Covid. Itâs like weâve all decided to recall âthe good old daysâ the way octogenarians do. What has really happened is that we were comfortable with the types of ongoing constant change, something unexpected happened that impacted all of us around the world, and we act like all the ongoing constant change we now experience is something different.
Itâs not.
Scientists figured out pretty darned quickly how to prevent billions of us from becoming ill with Covid-19. Manufacturers figured out pretty darned quickly how to make doses of the vaccine available worldwide. Some governments handled distribution well and others, primarily those that minimize Covid as a legitimate threat