2020 summed up in one word

A reflective rant about 2020's abiding theme recorded on New Year's Eve.

OK there was a global pandemic. But why did we f*** it up so bad? Here's my medical hot take on what made otherwise sensible humans absolutely bottle their response to COVID-19? One of the other problems has been trying to boil complex situations down to short pithy messages, so I decided to boil this complex situation down to a single word instead.