The Big Sell

COVID-19 Could Be Worse. And It Will Be.

Even after its over, another pandemic is surely coming.

In a fuming display of rage, I’m prepared to explain to you why humans have messed everything up. But I won’t. Not yet, exactly.

Bought for me two months ago by my girlfriend’s mother is a book titled Humans: A Brief History Of How We Fucked It All Up by Tom Phillips. It’s a great read and dives into religion, politics, the whole climate change thing. Accurate and true, it’s almost painful. I’m almost concerned as to why she ‘thought of me’ when purchasing.

We’re in a pandemic, by the way. Have you heard?

COVID-19 has shut down entire economies, including those with relatively high safety nets such as New Zealand (even though they’re much better off than the U.S. is). And it isn’t going away.

The number of infectious global disease outbreaks has increased significantly since 1980, from SARS in 2003, H1N1 in 2009, Ebola outbreaks in 2012 and 2014, the Zika virus, and of course Coronavirus which began in late 2019. Critics of former U.S. President Donald Trump noted that he abolished several programs in place to both handle a pandemic like COVID-19 and alert us well before it hit us hard. This outbreak was…