Covid is bigger than all of us

I don't think there is a way to stop this. Americans do not seem able to follow rules or make small sacrifices for the public good. I think things will just get worse and worse, then hit a crisis, and FINALLY people will change. Meanwhile it's like watching a loooooong disaster that keeps adding new elements. The crowds, the trash, the carbon pollution, the chemical water, and now Covid. Oh and the Plague... It's like Americans just want to party until everything explodes, nothing will stop them. All i can do is stay in the trees watching

Covid, combined with overtourism and a near genocide-suicide going on in USA, is really bigger than all of us. Before we see any real change and protection from Covid in Tahoe, we'll likely nationwide get to overflowing morgues and mass graves, public services not working because too many employees are calling in sick, and a breakdown of norms and standards of decency, kind of like we saw this weekend in South Lake, with a stabbing from road rage and a car club meeting that was alarmingly reckless and careless. No official with a clipboard is going to stop an onslaught of humans desperate to get out of 116 degree heat in the nearby valleys. There's an audacious brashness in the way some people are responding to mandates, or even suggestions, to live by public health protocols in this pandemic. For example, I don't think old ladies would have been spitting in people's faces two years ago in grocery stores, but you can find several videos of that behavior today on YouTube, since the pandemic started. American humans seem to have translated the foolhardiness of a president who stares into the sun in eclipses to a carelessness about human life, just in time for Covid-19.  We can ask our leaders for help, we can protest, write Letters to Editors, but I truly think this is bigger than all of us, and when it's over, we will all learn a new way to live on the Earth. Meanwhile…