To avoid hard truths we can immerse our heads in sand. We will not see or hear. Head in the sand.
I feel that we are doing that right now. Ideas of returns to normalcy are fantasies. Economic outlooks in people’s minds right now are memories of three or four months ago. It is hard to imagine a depressed economy, so we don’t see it. We don’t want it, can’t see it, will not plan for it and will be surprised by what only some people are seeing and predicting.
The 1918 Spanish Flu lasted many months. The Great Depression was a decade and global. Are we at the start? Yes and yes. The start of the pandemic. The start of the next Great Depression.
There is another theoretical place heads can be that is unmentionable. So ‘get your head out of your a$$!’