Paul says governments all over the world were slow to appreciate what was going to happen when their summers of COVID 19 cases began to grow exponentially in. Uh, not everywhere, but the majority of nations were slow to react, because the numbers were small, increasing slightly, and it didn't look all that bad, but by the time we really start to take it seriously, it's out of control. And then he goes on to describe how our sense of control plays a big part in how we perceive risk or potential danger. And he gives that example of driving a car. He says the driver feels that they are comp that they are controlling the risk. The driver feels that they are controlling the risk because they're controlling the speed and other aspects. They don't realize all the elements of the situations that are not under their control, like the conditions road hazards, or what other drivers are going to do. And it's true, driving a car is one of the most, riskiest things many of us do on a daily basis. Doesn't feel like that, though, because it's a routine activity, and we choose to do it, and it feels like we're in control. That's the feeling we have with our hands on the wheel, and it's a good example of how we can't always trust what we feel. Then Paul says, there's no gatekeeper that leads us to analyze information that conveys feels us. We just take it for what it is, and the brain lets these feelings in and we react to them. We don't vet our feelings the way we vet arguments. And this, this goes way back as something that was very adaptive a long time ago. So what he's saying here is that the human brain, a long time ago, was hardwired to be much better, more accurate in responding to up close, immediate risk, and less so accumulating or exponential. And this served early humans really well, because that was the main kind of risk that they faced, the tiger lurking in the bushes. But it's a lot more complex for us modern humans, then this podcast gets into a whole lot of complexity that we don't have time for this morning. But I want to turn to what all this means for practice, that we can't trust our feelings, and also what it means for living in uncertain times when it feels like perhaps, that there's a risk of losing everything we've come to take for granted, to seeing it all unravel. How do you maintain awareness of the present moment, of being rooted here in the midst of so much change? I