Lol. Cows don’t have tits, Sunshine, they have teats.

I wish I had your hope, but it’s unrealistic. We’re no where near the end of this and won’t be until herd immunity is established world wide. Until then, Covid-19 is here to stay and we better stay cautiously sharp about how were choosing to live with it.

Further, even when it is over, and probably before, we’re going to have to deal with food shortages and famines, economic depressions the world over, riots and civil unrest, assassinations and national and state collapse across the globe. This pandemic will redraw the map. We’ll be lucky if we don’t end up in another world war, especially given the current political climates in many countries including my own. Covid-19 is not the only epidemic/pandemic that will be unleashed on the world due to climate change. It’s just the first. And epidemics are not the only thing looming in the horizon with climate change.

That makes covid-19 one of the first sniffles of this long term debilitating illness called climate change. What we’ve gone through and will go through with Corona pales in comparison to what’s coming if we don’t buckle down and make some hard changes.

I don’t want things to go back to normal. I don’t want people driving around ‘just cause’. I don’t want flippant spending at coffee houses and the like just to maintain a lifestyle at the expense of the planet.

I do want to appreciate people more. I do want to gather and celebrate life. I do want us to build a more modest and equitable and truly prosperous world for all life forms that live on it. I want a better world.

And pie in the sky aspirational cheerleading is not going to get us there. Sobriety, diligence, respect, determination, honest communication, empathetic leadership, conscientious and modest spending, and absolute bull-headed stubborn perseverance to hold the line long term and see it through will.

If I saw those things in my country and the world at large I would have your hope for a brighter future though at my age of nearly 50 I will never see it.

I own that many countries have risen to this challenge much better than my own (US, if you didn’t already guess). I’ve been particularly impressed with New Zealand and South Korea. Well done y’all. Stay tough and hold the line.