Let’s say you live in a village with a lot of wooden houses placed close together. You hear of these problems in your village WhatsApp group, and it’s kind of worrisome, but maybe it hasn’t hit your own home yet, so you don’t feel it quite so much. As long as your own home is safe, for some reason, it’s subconsciously more comforting to feel that you probably can’t do that much about it anyway. This must be what it’s like with regards to the flooding in China and Germany, or maybe the problem with mass shootings in America. Or maybe, just maybe, today it’s your friend’s dad that catches Covid-19 and dies because the Klang Valley hospitals weren’t sufficiently staffed or equipped.

Source: The Star July 24, 2021 22:41 UTC