2024-12-26
Covid is the topic that divides the world.
Actually, the world divides itself into two camps - those who don't want to know regardless of the arguments, and those who are prepared to think the unthinkable, or perhaps merely just to look at it to check how unthinkable the unthinkable may actually be. I'm sure that there cannot be a single person alive who doesn't know people close to them in both camps.
It's not a race thing, it's not a left/right thing, it's not a religious thing, but it is possibly a maturity thing in so far as a child when faced with an unfamiliar intrusion (such as a less than familiar Nana and Grandad arriving on a too infrequent visit!) will cling to the familiar comfort of Mum or Dad to save them from the unfamiliar threat, whilst an adult would face the intrusion, try to understand it, and decide accordingly how to react.
The adult is responsible, the child is still neither responsible nor competent.
Maturity is not an on/off switch, it's an attitude to life which is learned and honed through experience over many years. There is in fact no end-point (perhaps not even death!) to this learning and honing experience.
It's never to late to learn more; after all this time, it doesn't look like it's going to go away just yet. And after all, how bad can it really be?
