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Friday, August 20, 2021

The Quiet Rage of the Responsible

That was the title of Paul Krugman's NYT column today: The Quiet Rage of the Responsible. Some put it in other ways, as below. I'm starting to feel angry, too, feeling that it's time to hunker down again, stay at home, when I barely started going out. With colder weather coming and now this much more contagious variant I wonder if this fall and winter is going to get worse than last year. I felt lucky to be spared last year and now it's seems we have to run the gauntlet again, largely because of the irresponsible and stupid behavior of a minority (read: MAGA) of America.

One thing I'm very thankful for is that I live in a part of the country where people are smart enough to take this pandemic seriously. The governor here in Oregon reinstituted a mask mandate as of last Friday, and when I was in the grocery store on Monday everyone had a mask on. I didn't see a single exception. COVID is rising in my county, which does contains a lot of rural area, but at least here in the suburbs, people are taking masks seriously.    








2 comments:

  1. "I'm starting to feel angry, too, feeling that it's time to hunker down again, stay at home, when I barely started going out."

    Granted, it's criminal that politicians are leveraging this disaster at the expense of their constituency.

    My feeling is that we've played our last card with the vaccine. We need to move on. The impact of vaccine hesitant individuals is largely to themselves.

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  2. Maybe it's because I'm older but I don't feel I have the luxury of just moving on. Sure I'm vaccinated and I don't fear dying as I once did, or even a serious hospitalization, but I do still fear the long-term consequences of getting COVID. (I honestly don't know how well the vaccine is protecting against those.)

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