Relaxed, or remissive?

It’s funny how my attitude to The Virus has changed. Until recently, I was anticipating, nay dreading, a Winter of rising cases, stupid behaviour, and inevitable lockdowns of some description or other. Now I just feel a kind of nonchalant apathy towards the whole thing. Maybe its just CoronaPanic Burn-out. There’s been so much dread and fear and scaremongering and speculation and page after page of “Shortages!”, “Crisis!” and “Doom!” in the media that maybe I’ve just hit a saturation point and my body can’t fit in anymore giving-a-shit. Whatever will happen, will happen, I guess, and it’s pointless to worry about ‘What If’s…’ when the list of possibilities is endless. We might have another Winter of Horrors, with hospitals over-run and every family experiencing deaths. We might have an onslaught of other viruses; those which have been kept at bay by mask-wearing and hand-washing and are just waiting in the wings to pounce when the weather turns cooler. We might have another, unrelated pandemic incident, with a flu variation that comes along and wreaks even more havoc than Covid 19. We might even sail through the next six months with no problems at all, and reach next Spring confident in saying ‘the pandemic is now behind us.”
We don’t know, do we? But, somehow, I am seeing that as a positive, rather than as a thing to cause concern.
And anyway, after the way people have behaved during the recent Fuelishness, I think I’d welcome a few more months of excessive deaths, especially if they could be targeted among the people who were queueing up at the petrol station every day to squeeze a few more drops of fuel into their car, despite the fact they had no need to travel, and despite the fact that they had been assured there were no shortages.
Pricks.
Jeez – I started this blog today wanting to write about how pleased I was that I have zero virus-related anxiety and ended up ranting about my fellow man and hoping many of them suffer a gruesome death!!
As I may have mentioned before – I think I might be drinking too much coffee again.

RC 12-10-21