It is once again past 2AM and I am very tired. I just spent an hour and a half on a blog post only to find out I was logged out when I went to save. I'll be using Word for future drafts and will have to complete what I intended to do tonight next week. Hopefully I'll get a chance to work on it during the week. The lost work is especially disheartening because I am starting to feel a growing disconnect from other people and it is weighing on me. People are so eager to get back to normal or give up. I don't think we're returning to normal and there is so much work to be done. It is very hard to have conversations about it.
There are so many systems and flaws that have been exposed in our society. I am most surprised by the complete ineptitude of corporations to use their significant influence and resources to improve outcomes or plan better for the future. Do people that strongly support capitalism to solve all of society's problems not realize what has happened? Why has it happened? Is it a structural failure, driven by incompetence, over-whelmed executives struggling to gather information that they weren't prepared for or from over-politicization at senior levels? Even if you ignore the personal costs to their employees and customers they have still failed from a purely economic standpoint. Secondarily are the failings of state/local governments on both sides of the political spectrum. There are no winners here. Just a bunch of losers. Do shades of gray matter when no one is happy? Do inept governments have any chance of realizing there better potential for addressing these types of problems when they can't execute and exhibit the same character flaws? The clear politicization of the WHO is another problem that will need to be addressed later. Why aren't informal governance systems like PTOs emerging to address issues? The scope of talking about this is so large. I don't think I can fully tackle the big picture quite yet. I certainly don't have answers. Next week I will just focus on the facts and putting together a contemporaneous account of what I see. TBD where I go from there. I too would like to move on from Covid-19. I suspect I won't be able to.
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