Martin Luther King Jr. said those in the civil rights movement were materially positive but spiritually active.
Most of us are materially passive now but we should be spiritually active.
There’s a lot of thinking we need to do, about why this happened and what needs to change so it never happens again. Don’t just be a spectator; be a conscious citizen. There are different theories about how this started, but all of them reflect humanity’s disharmony and violence towards nature, animals and each other.
In the US, an economic rather than a humanitarian bottom line is what led to a weakened CDC and to Trump withholding early testing. 37 out of 47 pandemic centers had been closed. Pandemic advice and preparedness plans had been ignored.
But don’t let a realization of all the human irresponsibility that led to this put you into anger, despair or distractedness. Let it put you into sadness at the tragedy of it all. This is a good time to simply feel the grief; the grief will transform into motivation we’ll need later. On the other side of this, big changes will be in order. The United States was left completely vulnerable in ways that should never have occurred, and which should never occur again.