04-21-2021, 11:03 PM
(04-21-2021, 10:08 PM)ac3r Wrote: This week I was visiting one of our local hospitals for some work. I was in one of the non-critical Covid-19 wards. We went into the room of one man who was probably only in his mid 30s. He was completely bedridden, hooked up on oxygen and countless other devices, barely able to hold up the book he was reading or say hello to me. He basically looked like a breathing corpse despite being lucid of things. Although I was only in the ward for a short time, it was a sight that would scare the shit out of anyone. It's too bad the people packing into churches like Trinity Chapel or those protesting with Hugs Over Masks signs every Sunday can't see this sort of stuff, though I kind of suspect it wouldn't really faze them.
No wonder we’re not making much progress on climate change. Covid and its associated mortality is all around us — the result of our collective behaviour is happening now, not years from now — and yet there are still many denialists. How much easier to be a denialist about something whose worst results are still in the future and where it takes more knowledge to understand the connection between action and result.