The End?

Remember when the pandemic was new and those articles and some pictures from the 1918 flu pandemic came out and some people wondered why there wasn't more of a historical record or documentation of how to handle it?  I think this week has been an education in why that is, it's that when people 100 years ago got to the end of their pandemic they just wanted to get past it, be done with it and not think about it anymore.  So nothing was gained and nothing was learned. 

We've come to the (beginning of?  middle of? ) the end of the pandemic now at least in the urban coastal regions of the United States.  In the middle we came to the psychological end a while ago because most folks in most states outside of the urban coastal regions don't give a rip about those we've lost, or their neighbors, or society as a whole, only about what "impinges on their freedom".   There’s zero interest in learning anything this time that we can use next time, or even improving the physical working conditions for people to make them less illness friendly.  People just want to get past it, be done with it and not think about it anymore. 

So my takeaway is people don’t really ever change, they just carry around more complicated technology in their pockets. 

Flu season is going to be interesting.