I've seen deer do this with my driveway a few times. They'll run full-speed all the way up to it, look both ways, walk across, then start running again. They're way smarter than we give them credit for

Damn that reminds me how I felt like things ought to, have to, must and will absolutely change with the pandemic. Lo and behold, 6 years later, we're back to the same old shit.

I assumed we'd realize that we went too fast and too far. That we need to work together to get over this, cooperate, help one another. That there are things that matter more than corporations. I naively assumed that in times of global crises like this, we would get closer together and put aside all that shenanigangs. Slow down and realize that if we just tune it down nature will come back, the planet will heal.

Obviously, quite the opposite happened society wise, and even in terms of medical policy we are back where we started.

We are currently having Covid. How we know? We still use home test kits. When I told people we tested positive today they are so surprised that we even tested. They are even more surprised I am keeping my daughter home since she has no symptoms but a cough.

Everyone is surprised that I wear a mask when I pick my healthy daughter up from kindergarten when I have a cold and my spouse can't pick her up. People are surprised I am cancelling a dentist appointment last minute because I have the flu and conjunctivitis. People are back to going to work with a flu. For fucks sake.