{"id":8007,"date":"2021-09-24T12:54:18","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T02:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tammytingles.com\/?p=8007"},"modified":"2021-09-24T12:54:18","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T02:54:18","slug":"pandemic-pondering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tammytingles.com\/?p=8007","title":{"rendered":"Pandemic pondering."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tammytingles.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG_9245.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tammytingles.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG_9245-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9245\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8009\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tammytingles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG_9245-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tammytingles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG_9245-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Brilliant! <\/p>\n<p>The Dunning-Kruger effect explained in the link below. <\/p>\n<p>This also ties up my thoughts on the current state of play. Basically, large tracts of the population have no experience or concept of \u2018Sacrifice\u2019. They\/we, by and large, for the past fifty years or so have lived a very sheltered and privileged life.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t think it\u2019s any accident that the lowest vaccination rates are in the 20-26 year old age group. That\u2019s not because they\u2019re more aware, worldly or educated, they\u2019re not.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m old enough (and proud, and unbelievably thankful) that I\u2019ve lived long enough that I have \u2018literally\u2019 lost first uncles to the last pandemic, the Spanish flu, no vaccines back then, people had to band together and look out for each other.<\/p>\n<p>I can remember walking in my neighborhood as a small child and seeing kids in their iron lungs, placed in their garages so they could see the other kids and the world passing by. I also remember standing in line in Corrimal memorial park to get my polio vaccine, so I wouldn\u2019t end up in an iron lung. <\/p>\n<p>I remember being on holiday in Queensland with my family in April 1982. I bought the latest issue of Rolling Stone magazine, and I also remember my brother and I discussing an article about a cancer that was only killing gay men. There was no vaccine for HIV, we had to band together as a community, we had to think of others, if not for ourselves. <\/p>\n<p>We modified our behavior, we longed for science to save our friends from dying before our eyes. We sacrificed, we thought of others, and with that came the joy and power of community and even learned compassion for some.<\/p>\n<p>The absolute truth is, I\/we, aren\u2019t that important. We get on a plane and think, \u2018What if it crashes!\u2019 Well, what if it does, you\u2019ll be in the news cycle for a week at most, maybe a little longer if a reality tv star is on board with you, but, it won\u2019t stop the world, your demise won\u2019t stop the sun rising the next day. In the scheme of things, we\u2019re just a spec of dust, a blip. In a hundred years there won\u2019t be anyone who remembers us.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re all vulnerable to the mundane, and we are all mortal.<\/p>\n<p>How many times in a disaster do you hear someone say, \u2018I didn\u2019t think it would happen to me, I thought these things happened to other people\u2019. That\u2019s ego, that\u2019s people thinking they\u2019re above the mundane.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s far easier for people\u2019s egos to accept and process the fanciful and inexplicable, a conspiracy. It conveniently takes away the need to process and accept that something as invisible to the human eye as germs and viruses can make them sick, and can lead to their death.<\/p>\n<p>Life is random, we \u2018cannot\u2019 control it. <\/p>\n<p>\u2018Turn off your mind, relax and float downstream\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>If Einstein is correct, and also the cosmic law of equal and opposite, then for all the greed and selfishness in the world, there is also generosity and selflessness . . we just need to find that again and nurture it.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s really simple, shit happens. We can rail and scream against it, we can clutter our minds with \u2018What ifs\u2019, and endless ruminating and distractions of cause and source, or, we can work together, helping each other, but . . as my long life experience shows me, that involves sacrifice, learning to be selfless, and caring for each other as a community. <\/p>\n<p>Can your ego handle that?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dunning-Kruger effect.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brilliant! The Dunning-Kruger effect explained in the link below. This also ties up my thoughts on the current state of play. Basically, large tracts of the population have no experience or concept of \u2018Sacrifice\u2019. 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