TavBlog Ignorance Winter 2020

Today is January 11, 2021. On January 11, 2020, the first death from the novel coronavirus identified in Wuhan, China, was reported to the world. In the US especially, we were ignorant of how intimately connected we would become to this story, and the growing collection of remembered lives lost to the virus, both directly and indirectly. On January 11, 2020, that story was buried under our more pressing issues. Our conflict with Iran appeared to be escalating, and domestically, we were moving impeachment from the house to the senate, another earthquake had rocked Puerto Rico, and the ousted Boeing CEO was collecting 62 million as a parting gift. It would be weeks and months before the resounding Covid alarm would be heard across the world, and as Covid-19 revealed its immense power, our concept of “the truth” began misfiring with wild abandon as fear encroached on our thoughts and plans. Understandably, our lives were being altered by something out of our control that we knew very little about, but the varied directions we took in our attempts to “handle” the situation are endless.

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