What Covid has really driven home is the sense that we are all in a Earth collective. Nothing quite like a once in a century pandemic, or WW, to drive that home. Moreso every nation, province, etc, are also in their own collective. For the first time in many of our lives we've had to deeply consider how we are impacted by the actions of others. Its whats causing so much of the conflict you see today, or all year.
Live and let live has had its biggest conceptual challenges in 202o.
Strangely there was a *viral epidemic* before Covid of people intentionally tampering with products in stores. Opening ice cream containers, licking them, putting them back, licking whole shelves of canned goods, boxed cereals, yogourts etc. Farting, spitting, burbing on food. Really disgusting stuff and it was a form of in person trolling everybody else. it was sick individuals deriving some sort of satisfaction at the thought that somebody would be in contact with their gross actions.
Increasingly among us we have a growing segment of people that are antisocial, and we're locked in a pandemic with these people.
Other communities experienced this nightmare during the Aids Crisis when it was known that patient zeros were spreaders that had sex with lots of people and perhaps knowing they were ill and others going on to be superspreaders with full knowledge of their condition and still having sexual partners, spreading it and not telling others.
I wonder how much more devastating the pandemic of a century ago would have been if we had all these assholes back then.
already.
