i can't stop reading these poorly written covid-19 articles.

i get some useful information out of them, i guess. numbers, mostly.

but, it's really most comparable to the kind of reaction you'd associate with slowing down at a car crash to observe the wreckage - this is a catastrophe in every way, and i'm not sure people really realize it, yet. there's been a flurry of propaganda recently to insist that the measures are working and the authorities are in control, but it's obviously a gloss over the reality that the measures aren't working and they got caught flat-footed, due to putting too much faith in an unrealistic model (the idea that social distancing would effectively slow the spread of the disease) that utterly failed.

we're going to have a longterm mess to deal with, now - a mess in social services, a mess in housing, a mess in employment, and it's going to get worse the longer this continues on for, with little evidence that it is working - despite loud declarations to the contrary by politicians at all levels, which seem to be operating under some kind of centralized plan.

people right now are probably preoccupied with their day-to-day concerns, and that's reasonable. i'm broadly taken care of, so i'm not blinded by this.

right now, it's the people that are sick that are the priority. but, the near future is going to be very difficult for a much larger number of people that didn't actually get sick. and, i don't think we've collectively clicked into this, yet - i don't think we've fully fathomed what has just happened.

so, i'm sorting through these articles, trying to get a handle on the spin, on the official story. it's proving hard to let go of.