08-11-2021, 01:31 PM
(08-11-2021, 12:06 PM)Wes Mantooth Wrote: I still can't believe how quickly I went from thinking "Finally, we're almost out of the woods. Thank God this is almost over" to "I have no idea what the hell is going on. When is this going to end?"
You just need to stop looking at it in a pandemic management sense and start looking at it like any other accomplishment followed by self-sabotaging relapse. Imagine the USA as a person who worked hard and lost 10lbs and then celebrates by falling completely off the wagon and putting on even more weight. Or maybe a sports team that wins the championship and then sells all their players because they can coast off the goodwill of that championship for decades.
Or maybe we are more like someone who works hard all week and then blows his entire paycheck on blow as soon as he gets it. Either way, there are plenty of examples of people declaring "mission accomplished" well before said mission is actually accomplished.