Our grave “misunderstanding” about the pandemic

Question from the Internet:

“What is the one thing about Covid-19 that people have greatly misunderstood?”

I would not say people misunderstood something. I would say we are in a strange split, we recognize things, we talk nicely about things and then we behave, act opposite to what we recognized, what we talked about.

On hand everybody talks about a “pandemic”, we all recognized that this virus affects all of us, all across the planet. Similarly to climate change, for example, we all know that these problems reach each and every person indiscriminately, we cannot hide, escape their effect.

But when it comes to behavior, actions we all behave as if we existed independent from each other, as if we could still solve global problems in an interdependent world subjectively, egotistically, at each other’s expense or ignoring what happens to others.

We recognize that we evolved into a globally integrated world where we all depend on each other on one hand, and we still try living life individualistically, in ruthless competition, making all calculations for selfish, personal benefit only on the other hand.

If we can’t solve this paradox, we will simply not survive, we will “sleepwalk” into a global catastrophe that will leave only a handful of people alive who will need to change their attitudes, how they relate to others and the world as a result of incredible, intolerable suffering.