Today's Olympian carried a story about Thurston County's COVID status -- only half of us fully vaccinated. There was also an editorial about humanity's failure to adequately address climate change. The similarity struck me. It's like we're little kids refusing to take medicine that will restore us to health.
This refusal to do what we need to do in our own best interest is weird, self-defeating.
More broadly, it calls into question the viability of democracy itself. After all, democracy is based on the idea that we will choose what is best for us. It's one thing to do small things that are not good for us -- like more dessert -- but quite another when millions of lives are on the line.
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