Covid Deniers are like Climate Change Deniers, at some point we are going to have to give up on them. It might be time to start thinking in terms of who you want to share a lifeboat with.
Here's something I wrote in Dec. 20'.
Covid and Climate Change have a lot of Analogs
When it comes to Surviving them, they have one big thing in Common
Surviving Covid and surviving Climate Change have one thing in common. Both depend on good government.
If the Republican response to Covid is a preview of how they are likely to respond to the multiple crises that Climate Change is going to bring, then they need to be removed from power at every level.
This is how people who are against taxation and don’t want to fund government, govern. Why would anyone rational have expected then to do it well?
If you live in a “bad governance” state that had a poor response to the Covid pandemic this should be your wake-up call. Because one of the biggest things you can do to survive the coming decades of Climate Change and ensure a decent future for your kids is living in an area with good governance.
While you may like your neighbors, if they are voting Republican now, they are going to keep voting Republican for decades to come. They will get the government and the leaders they deserve, and it will result in many of them dying or becoming impoverished.
If you stay in a bad governance place, they will take you down with them in the decades that are coming.
The Covid-19 pandemic proved once again in the most visceral way that government matters. In the decades to come this is going to be more important than ever.
Think really hard about who you want to be sharing a lifeboat with in the future.
Because the ship has started sinking and a lot of the people who keep insisting that we don’t need to build and stock lifeboats are going to die. Don’t be one of them. -1220
Now it seems that everyone is infected with this "Denialism". I think people have gotten so burned out that they are retreating into "not giving a fuck" about anything.
It happens.
