Our response to COVID, especially the American and Brazilian (and Russian) AKA "global leaders" responses, is exactly why we should be terrified, as you rightly explain. Forty percent of us are morons, assholes and/or troglodytes and the other 60% are screaming at them to wake the F up. Meanwhile, our elected leaders in the fast-decaying GOP are trying to dismantle the voting system while telling people they don't need to follow stupid mask rules during a plague. Oh, I forgot about the billionaire space cowboy social network titans who rake in billions and throw pocket change the climate problem. I mean, not to be a doomsayer, but c'mon.