Kassandra and the Cure
A parable to help us empathize with those on the other side of the Covid-19 debate
The following is a thought experiment using a short story format. The intention is to invite people to understand and/or empathize with where I was coming from with my “rant” post yesterday. (For those of you who missed that post, I invite you to either go read it, or to just follow this experiment as I think it will perhaps lead to understanding the gist of that post by inference).
Here goes:
There was a woman named Kassandra living in the country of Karangistan, a country long known for its natural splendor, colorful scarves and repressive governments. Entrepreneurs from the outside look at this country and see it as one of great potential, if only that predilection for crappy governments could be taken care of.
Wars, coups, economic sanctions and cultural revolutions have all been tried, but still the government persists so people living in this country have just accepted it as a matter of course. A phrase that is often thought, but rarely spoken is “Beautiful day, lousy government.”
But there’s one thing that can break through this government: a global pandemic. Like the rest of the world, life has been greatly altered during the first year of this pandemic — many…
