I find I can't even process that models from only 6 months ago, whose predictions were already somber, turned out to be overly optimistic by a factor of 50% and climbing. And life appears to just go on for now, at least for my privileged arse and hopefully yours also, even as we watch in real time a rising tide biting into the base of the metaphorical sandcastle we're sitting on. Goodness.

I wonder if it's a deer in headlight moment for most of humanity.

When 2 planes crashed on the runway in Tenerife, one plane had a lot of survivors initially, but many of them sat there just frozen:

https://youarenotsosmart.com/transcript-episode-177-covid-19...

Starting from: > Escape was possible, but not all of the survivors attempted it.