Tempting to not worry about Covid when so much else will kill you

No, I'm not going to stop trying to avoid the current plague. I am just in the anger part of the much-quoted but also much-criticized Kübler-Ross model. A longtime friend of Arthur's just died. He had had a variety of health issues over the years, but when he last emailed Arthur three weeks ago, he was thinking of getting a dog, which is a many-years commitment, so he wasn't feeling that his time was short. Another friend Arthur met through juggling died in July (fuck cancer), which was sad, but Todd was special to Arthur. Arthur's father lost a bunch of friends almost like dominoes when they were in their 50s (Arthur's father is now 92). Arthur has started to wonder whether this year is going to be like that for us, with folks in their 60s instead. On the other hand, my mother reported the other day that she has been having repeated dreams recently about her friends who have died in the last year or two. It doesn't end, no matter how old you get.