I have stoic tendencies, so not so good at the consoling stuff —more
like: “ok, so that happened, now what?”
with that in mind…
how you feel about the pandemic seems to boil down to three questions…
- how do you feel about risk and luck, your luck in particular, given your history, age, condition, beliefs, etc.?
- how do you feel about your own mortality, or sense of immortality?
- how do you feel about others you might affect, do you think they are on their own trajectories independent of your actions?
there are all sorts and sources of information, opinion, and on the ground reporting, which you may attend, or not —or just enough to get an assessment of the risk. But it all filters back to the same 3 questions, regardless of the source and content of your information, that everyone will answer for themselves, I think. And there are no wrong answers.
it may be a blessing or a curse, to be forced to clarify our stance. regardless, it is a wake-up call