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Like Covid, it seems humans have to wait until disaster is right on their doorstep, before they pull themselves together to do something about it.
I see you're an optimist.
"before they acknowledge there's a problem" would be the better phrasing.
You mean to not do anything about it, watch their loved ones take a beating, and villainize everybody who says that's bad?
Boiling the frog.
I get it is not literal, but it is interesting that not even frogs behave that way. So, we're somehow worse, we see it coming and don't even move our asses to do something.
You probably don't want to put "covid" and "pull themselves together" in the same sentence