I reconize the posibilities but do not live in fear of bad things I know may happen in a way that I can be minipulated by that fear for other things that might also hurt me. Pick the fear that is going on now is my motto.
I am not suggesting that we live in fear. I am suggesting that we think things through and recognize from history what is possible in the future.
Another current example that has nothing to do with a virus: Abortion was illegal early in my life. Birth control was unreliable and not always easy to get. Women got pregnant under all kinds of circumstances and for many, too many kids was an issue. When abortion was made legal, I agreed with the "safe, rare, and legal" argument even though the coathanger deaths bit was vastly overblown. Most abortions were done by medical professionals making a bit illegally on the side...but that's another story.
I changed my mind over a few years of working in L&D and seeing that the advances of science changed the designation of viability. I could not reconcile morally that yesterdays fetus was todays baby...BUT, it was not a hill for me to die on.
FF to today. The push is for abortion to be legal any time up to birth. That's not OK. It shouldn't be OK for anyone to even think of. No matter how you feel about abortion, the idea that you can kill a term baby just because it hasn't been pushed out yet, ought to make you sick and make you wonder about the people who push for this kind of thing.
We went from safe, rare, legal, which most people either agreed with or were willing to live with, to any time a woman changes her mind right up the first breath the baby takes. Is it too much to anticipate post-birth abortions in the future? It is not and it has been proposed and even apparently implemented in some countries. Something wrong with the baby at birth? Let it die so that it is not a burden on society. The greater good.
People don't think. They especially don't apply any lateral thinking skills. If you dare do that, you are accused of fear mongering or called a nut case even though we have multitudes of examples of that slippery slope.