That’s the word I’ve heard most people use about these weeks.
For me it’s just the second week of staying indoors, still everyone I know is fine.

The US is just now starting to take more measures, but given how non-existent their healthcare system is, I have a feeling it’s gonna get much worse for them before it starts improving.

So, I was wondering about this “Surrealness” and why most people describe our times like that. My current working theory is that this is a combination of two “apocalypses”. One is mild, the other not.

The mild one is the phyiscal. While this has been definitely a pandemic ( 14,652 deaths at the time of writing), it is not really this kind of Old Testament, real Wrath of God type stuff. Fire and brimstone, rivers and seas boiling, fourty years of darkness, human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together, MASS hysteria. Rather it’s a pandemic that requires us to stay indoors and wash our hands more often.

What it has shattered though, is the illusion that the way humanity has been operating so far is not sustainable. I have no idea how many millions are living paycheck-to-paycheck, but with a total lockdown for weeks or maybe months, it seems like the VAST majority of people won’t be able to go to work, or find their work standing when they emerge blinking from their vaults.

That is what I think people are struggling to understand, myself included.

We’ve seen sick people before, we’ve been sick. We know that one sick person can mean a sick group.
Now we are realizing that prosperity works like that too.
Once a group of people lose their job, security and health overnight, society soon might follow.

Maybe that’s the apocalypse we are struggling to come to terms with.
As they say: It’s easier to imagine the end of the world, that it is the end of capitalism.

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~Garret