The conundrum is that not that many deaths will come from any single gathering. Most ppl who get SARS-CoV-2 don’t get symptoms, TINY % die. But millions of chains of reaction will begin, which will cause mass deaths far from point of contact, disconnecting sense of consequence.https://twitter.com/OberandOut/status/1331953583349248008 …
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It’s easy to imagine any of us wanting to do nothing that puts others at risk. But many of us do. I used to fly all the time bc I could afford to & enjoy travel. Surely all that travel added to asthma rates that harmed or killed others. I did it anyway.
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I did it because I liked to fly, as many people like to drive. If we stayed more still there would be less chance of climate catastrophe, less asthma, less pollution. But it’s hard to stop the pleasure of travel to stop someone else’s asthma wheezing months or years later.
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What I’m asking myself in my book (which seems the best place to start b4 asking whole society) is, how can I think of “me” less as “me” but to think of all of us (human/non-human animals) on this earth as forming a collective being which exists across time & space? Not easy.
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But more immediately, if gatherings don’t cause immediate death & stigmatizing fear mongering doesn’t help, what sensory inputs can help us to know we are in immediate danger, like the heat of a flame?
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I also feel like much more mourning is needed. Urgently. So many are suffering. But in private. Like much of neoliberalism we are made to grieve and mourn alone. A quarter million ppl have died just from the disease directly in the US but you wouldn’t know it from the culture.
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What if we were openly mourning and grieving—not to scare or shame or beat each other into submission, but to feel the collective consequence of what we are collectively experiencing, rather than to make everyone figure it out (or not) on their own?
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What if this T Day and Christmas, for a God damn change, weren’t about Hallmark movies and shopping or the Crown or butterball turkeys it war metaphors, but were about sitting shiva nationally & mourning & taking stock of our reality & what it needs?
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What if every family or person wasn’t left to figure out the spiritual and mortal dimensions of this abstract, wild, lethal virus with the time delayed consequences on our own?
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Correction—ought to have said many, not most, ppl who contract this virus will not get symptoms.https://twitter.com/thrasherxy/status/1331955364607176704 …
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And yes to those who ask, lots of transmission happens via the asymptomatic period of ppl who transmit and eventually do develop sometimes themselves but don’t know it. My point is that it’s hard to link cause & consequence when there is such an unfelt, temporarily removed link.
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