As a historian Iām awed by how GREAT a job humanity is doing now, the first pandemic where weāve understood hygiene, hand-washing, where weāve had actions we could take. In 1918 they didnāt even discuss delaying the election because there was nothing they couldāve done to make it safer even if they did, they didnāt know enough about how the diesease spread to disinfect stuff or anything. Ā I know weāre focusing a lot on the mistkaes that are being made and theāre HUGE mistakes, but since my head is usually in the pre-modern world I sit in awe at how much weāre doing, how sure we are we can handle it together as a species, how empowered we are, and how much weāre reaching out and being warm and helping each other. Ā Some governments are botching, individuals, but the collective is doing one of the most impressive things any species has ever done in the history of this planet. Ā We just need to kee preminding ourselves of that.