As a historian Iâm awed by how GREAT a job humanity is doing now, the first pandemic where weâve understood hygiene, hand-washing, where weâve had actions we could take. In 1918 they didnât even discuss delaying the election because there was nothing they couldâve done to make it safer even if they did, they didnât know enough about how the diesease spread to disinfect stuff or anything. Â I know weâre focusing a lot on the mistkaes that are being made and theâre HUGE mistakes, but since my head is usually in the pre-modern world I sit in awe at how much weâre doing, how sure we are we can handle it together as a species, how empowered we are, and how much weâre reaching out and being warm and helping each other. Â 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. Â We just need to kee preminding ourselves of that.