The "learning to live with it" line that people say about #Covid is most often used in the most idiotic of ways. They mean "ignore it".

You don't ignore the pandemic, just like you don't ignore aggressive wasps or rabid coyotes living nearby. You "live with them" in the sense of taking adequate precautions and safety measures to not end-up horribly mangled & dead.

And if you can by some miracle get rid of them? Well you do.

#Carefulness #Security #Idiocy #NormalcyBias #Stupidity

A quotation from Confucius:

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Respectfulness, without the rules of propriety, becomes laborious bustle; carefulness, without the rules of propriety, becomes timidity; boldness, without the rules of propriety, becomes insubordination; straightforwardness, without the rules of propriety, becomes rudeness.
[恭而無禮則勞、愼而無禮則葸、…
»

Citation, sourcing, notes: https://wist.info/confucius/17532/

#quote #quotation #boldness #bravery #carefulness #caution #courage #fear