What the Shockingly Small Amount of Covid-19 on Earth Says About Our Flawed Evolutionary Brains
The way we’re hard-wired, it’s no surprise little things have a terrifyingly big impact.
I vividly recall my last in-person meeting on March 13, 2020. My colleague and I barely covered the agenda as we peered out the coffee shop window and pondered if this “coronavirus thing” would be a big deal.
That evening, I packed up my work computer to begin my drive home, and haven’t returned to the office in over 350 days.
SARS-CoV-2 is a small thing, but a big deal
Few experiences over the past century have touched every corner of the world like COVID-19. Here in the U.S., the horrors of the 9/11 attacks were, for instance, a clear and explosive event, literally. Though the aftershocks reverberated throughout the world — and I can no longer carry more than 3oz. of liquid on a plane — it was in many ways a contained, singular occurrence.
Conversely, nearly every single human being alive is dramatically aware of (and some painfully impacted by) this novel coronavirus in some way — the highly transmissible, invisible adversary has all but shut down the planet. This health crisis to-date has claimed 169-times…
