America shrugged: As long as selfishness wins, the pandemic is here to stay

[multigraincracker]

So we’ve backed ourselves into a corner. Returning to normal will cost hundreds of thousands of lives — many (but, importantly, not all) of whom belong to the very people who’ve spent the last two years arguing that we should ignore the pandemic — and reduce us to hoping that the inevitable next variant is milder still instead of the other way around. Few people would call this good public health policy, but it’s what our politics demands.

The pandemic has starkly illustrated a tension that dates to the founding of the American experiment: balancing individual rights with community needs. Your right not to get a vaccine, not to wear a mask, to send your unvaccinated, unmasked kids to school and force teachers to sit in confined, poorly ventilated rooms with them for eight hours a day, eat and drink and carry on as if nothing was wrong; versus my right to not get sick, to not risk a breakthrough infection, to not see my family members get seriously ill, to not worry about my “elective” surgery to remove that mole on my back being postponed indefinitely because hospitals are full, to actually have life return to normal once everyone is vaccinated.

It’s about your right to think of yourself versus my right to think of everyone else. Because our political system is fundamentally broken, selfishness is winning. As long as selfishness wins, the pandemic is here to stay.

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[onecaliberal]

1. We handle these people with kid gloves.

Now nearly a million people dead and we can’t find the intestinal fortitude to stand up to them ever.

[BeckyDem]

2. Yes.

We need a different response, imho.

[Diamond_Dog]

3. We should do what Macron in France vowed to do.

Make life a living hell for the unvaccinated.

[lambchopp59]

4. Unvaxx taxx

Sick of bowing to the free dumb ilk about the hazardous ignorance.
I know, not politically expedient.
I'm completely out of patience with these dumbfux.