"I haven't seen people talk about ____!"

Currently:
-Covid-19
-175,000 deaths
-Mass unemployment
-Rising food prices
-Evictions going up
-California wildfires
-Iowa derecho
-USPS delays
-2020 Election
-Tropical Storm Laura
-QAnon
-School safety issues
-Hong Kong
-Beirut
-Belarus

People are stretched thin mentally and physically, trying to juggle all sorts of once-in-a-lifetime situations along with jobs, family responsibilities, and regular life stuff. Our brains were not designed to juggle this volume of bad, plain horrific, and constantly updated news.

I subscribe to newsletters, I donate money, I literally work in news, and I still miss things. I also *choose* to miss things, because I understand my brain and energy both have limits, much of which I need to direct at my new job.

I did not include the poisoning of Nalvany and climate change in my list, because of character limits.

This guilt about missing stuff also misses the bigger picture: massive government incompetence. Many of these things are the *federal administration's responsibility*.

Trying to shame government officials and people in power into doing the right thing is exhausting. The sad part is, that's the only thing that seems to work for stuff like:
-the very slow response in Iowa
-USPS delays
-awful media people
-university admins
-awful police officers

There are definitely many more important issues all happening right now. What makes it worse is 1800+ fewer media outlets in the US, thousands of fewer people working FT in media, social media platforms that amplify misinformation, and rampant bad leadership.

The people who should be aware of most, if not all of this stuff going on are repeatedly failing to respond in the ways the most vulnerable people need them to. That's the most overwhelming thing.