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Asking “What if?” Is a Slippery Slope
The future is unknown and fretting about it is common — but not all that useful.
I cannot tell you how life is going to be when the measures being taken to combat Covid-19 are done. Nobody knows when returning to normalcy will be a good idea or even feasible. There are many possibilities and scenarios for what lies ahead.
If you start to work through every permutation of “what if” you can and probably will drive yourself mad. There is no single model, prediction, or explanation that is the end-all-be-all answer. It is nothing but unknowns — and that is terrifying for most people.
If you begin to ask, “What if?” you will likely begin a feedback loop that will utterly depress you. I could give you tons of examples of what I am referring to, but that’s unnecessary. Every single one of these questions is attempting to predict the most uncertain future any of us have ever faced.
Almost the entire world is stuck in this position, as the virus has made its way to every continent save Antarctica. Societies of millions of people are locking down and driving economies to a grinding halt to lessen the spread and save lives.
Some care more for those economies than the people — which is asinine, short-sighted, and depraved. Look…
