Power Stabilized

The Desire to Bust Free

In this excerpt, Shannon is desperate to escape from drangonpanther jail. We can relate. We have been locked down for all but essential tasks for months, and, given the resurgence in many places, just when we thought we'd been given the Get Out of Jail Free card, we might be trapped again in our little home hoosegows. Shannon was desperate enough to escape that she considered fleeing through the sewage tunnels. Pretty desperate. How desperate are we? Desperate enough to risk contracting Covid-19? Desperate enough to bring a grave illness home to our families and friends? I sense many people are answering with a loud 'yes.' I can't blame them. At the heart of their willingness, though, is, I think, a fundamental inability to grasp that yes, catching the virus could really happen to them and it could really cause their deaths. Deaths. It seems almost impossible for people to sense how very dangerous this virus is. It is too remote; too theoretical; too abstract. They can't see it out there; they know they could contract it, but not that they will. They believe the odds are in their favor. But it it really worth rolling the dice if losing means losing your life or that of someone you love very much? I hope not.