I confess, they get on my nerves. Which ? The specialists in moral positioning at the end of the Covidian year. Those who, faced with the announcement of a diminished Christmas, and economic devastation to come, explain to us that it is not very serious, in the end, and who appeal, without realizing that the rope is worn out, in principle of solidarity.
The worst are those who speak of world wars to relativize our present misfortunes. For how long will they use this example, to tell us that in the last instance, the historical ordeal we are going through is not so painful?
Weariness
Let’s call them the COVID Pharisees. They self-confine in joy.
I am not saying that the government should be cursed. He does what he thinks he has to do. Its task is impossible.
But make no mistake: we cannot generate hopes repeatedly, and then take a cold shower, without the popular mood being damaged.
In the psychological management of COVID, Quebec has just made a major mistake and it could start to pay the price in its popularity rating.
The conditions for a dropout from ordinary people are almost met. Social life, for human beings, is not optional.
Because if COVID, like a seasonal virus with recurrent mutations, is to weigh on our lives, we must reorganize mentally and practically our societies to prevent it from dominating us completely.
Risk
Let us repeat it: we must reorganize the hospital system, promote mass vaccination at a good pace, wear the mask probably in public transport and accept to integrate a greater part of the risk into our lives than in the past.
This implies that more fragile people will have to take more precautions in their social interactions. We will have to help them.
But we cannot fully adjust the pace of society to their situation.