What Does Disillusionment Really Mean?

 If you asked people out on a street to define disillusionment.....most would have a simple two line explanation, and it'd go something like this: you believed in something, and one day....you came to realize it failed to be true, and you go through a downward spiral of negativity.

It'd be like the day that you figured Santa Claus wasn't real....the day that you realized George Bush openly lied about mass destruction weapons in Iraq.....the day that you are reading the Great Gatsby situation where Nick has figured out that Gatsby's books are 'uncut' (never read).....or the day where you realize in 2008 that housing prices are totally bogus and a magnificent 'fall' is about to occur in the real estate market.

Everyone has a disillusionment moment in life.....some more....some less.

You don't really recover from disillusionment moments.  They rest upon your memory....tax your patience....and forever affect your judgement on future events.  In some ways, you progress very quickly to a skeptical stage, and question things on a regular basis.

If you went and asked regular people about Covid....probably half of them would express some disillusionment. There was a comment by a Doctor John Brooks a couple of days ago (associated with the US CDC folks)....who openly made the comment along the lines....'you don't know when herd immunity occurs, until you arrive at herd immunity'.  

That statement by Doctor Books is one of those ten disillusionment moments I've felt over the virus.  It'd be best if they just didn't make public statements or utter stupid comments like this. But it is...what it is.

Do we need some form of disillusionment 'rehab'?  Well.....yeah, I might start to think that some mental clinic folks need to pursue this issue.

The guy who has had Covid....gotten his full dose of vaccine, and now has the virus a second time within a hundred days of the vaccination?  I'd probably be in a five-star moment of disillusionment.  I'd probably rush out in the next month (after getting cured)....get a booster jab, then start to feel great, and five months later....wake up to another case of Covid.  

If this path were to repeat over and over?  I'd say by 2025, we'd be in a serious bout of depression and disillusionment....wondering when things would ever return to normal.