10 March

A superb piece from the British journalist Ed Yong. Why are we tolerating so many Covid deaths? His article brilliantly explains why. Mostly because the history of disease shows time and again that once the privileged have options to avoid it, they dump it on the more disadvantaged folk and say 'it's over'. But also because as societies, we're no longer societies. We're individuals. We've forgotten how to think as a group. Politicians created that, deliberately, it's much easier to control people who can't act together, as a group. Look at FB, saturated with posts about 'me'. Even natural disasters become 'me at the natural disaster'.