Covid-19 Anxiety Dream

Had a dream where I kept forgetting to wear my facemask and I was going into movie theatres and libraries.  Whatever part of my subconscious constructed that dream was treating it like one of those dreams where one forgets to wear clothes, even though my dream self had the expected anxieties about catching covid. 

Anyway, I haven't even been inside a movie theatre or library since March of 2020 since I don't even go inside grocery stores anymore.  So this was one of those dreams where I wake up and feel that relief of 'oh, I never actually did that'.

Still wishing for the day I can wake up from one of these kinds of things and go 'oh, we're not in a world-wide pandemic for covid anymore', though.  Not sure when that'll happen, since people seem to have this attitude that's it's over just because vaccines exist, even though the most effective vaccines are largely only available to rich countries (who still themselves have huge unvaccinated populations) and the more unvaccinated people there are, the more ability the virus has to mutate into something worse (which has already happened at least once!).

Anyway, as nightmares go, this dream certainly wasn't my worst. I get a little chuckle over my subconscious setting it up like one of those 'embarrassing lack of clothing' dreams.  Really didn't even come close to outdoing the reality of the situation.

Climate Change Ruminations

Climate change is something that often occupies my thoughts as I try to think of what the future holds for us all and what can be done.  The powerful are the most insulated from these problems, so I do not think they can be trusted to do anything significant about them.  At the same time, I don't really think the attitude of 'if I'm not responsible for the problem I don't have to do anything about it' is a good one here.  The people who are most responsible for these problems are not, I should think, the ones who can be relied upon to fix them!  And yet, they are, disproportionately, the ones still making the decisions.  If others of us do not apply pressure, those in power will dispassionately watch us die from the problems they themselves are disproportionately shielded from.  By the time things are bad enough for the people in charge to be truly worried, it will be too late for the rest of us.