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Talk about what is most upsetting or scaring you right now about the coronavirus pandemic.

The most scary/upsetting thing in this pandemic is how little it seems people can or will put in an effort to protect others. I hate this. I am personally one of those people that will go out of my way to protect others, and even though that extreme is not healthy either, outright refusal to help others astounds me. And that is not entirely different from our lives before Covid-19. But this global catastrophe is showing how poorly prepared the US was because the US isn't built on helping others. That isn't the mentality we have. The American Dream and the theme of pulling yourself up, climbing the ladder to success, are actively dying, faster now than it had been before Covid-19. How long is this society going to hold on to the old ways? Will we finally change? Will the change come in time to prevent other horrific global catastrophes? Because just because the world had halted somewhat do to the pandemic, we still have a "Big Bad" global climate change to resolve. Otherwise, we will be permanently altering the climate of the world in a way that will make it horrifically difficult for life to live here. THAT is horrific. This pandemic feels like we are now at square 1 regarding how to resolve the other existential threat we face. It just makes me honestly panic. Because we are so busy with trying to fix the short term problem, since we were not prepared in the first place, we will be too late to fix the end of life on Earth.