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The new normal seems exactly like the old normal except everything good is delayed, costs more, and involves more paperwork, and everything bad is accelerated and less containable by paperwork or money. And no deep lessons have been learned.
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Realized this suddenly last month and it’s been bumming me out since. We’ve learned a bunch of narrow and contentious facts about pandemics, but no consciousness-raising things. Everybody’s decided events prove they were right about everything all along.
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It’s really rare for humanity to learn anything from big events. We mostly just collect a lot of data for future scholars to analyze after it’s too late
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Around the start of COVID I watched a documentary about the Spanish Flu. And it’s been a comforting template. Different scale, different science, different historical context but pretty much mapped out the ups and downs of the whole two year journey.
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