I am so sick of everything getting politicized.

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2. What about this is NOT political.

The response to a Public Health crisis by people and their governments is INHERENTLY political. Sorry that you are tired of the back and forth but why do you want to hear about "people who have recovered" when people are still getting the disease and GOVERNMENTS are talking about relaxing the tools we have been using to mitigate the spread and damage of the virus.

What should we discuss about "the pandemic itself and what's being done about it"? I don't even understand that statement. What is being done about the pandemic IS POLITICAL, how people living together in groups, and the governments which people use to organize, make policy, and represent their interests in staving off this pandemic IS POLITICAL.

You want to focus on the positive aspects of the pandemic? You want there to be less vitriol. Sure, those are valid desires. It can be difficult to constantly hear the fighting. But, then say that.

Politics is what we do about organizing how we live together in society. It is about what the people we elect to make rules about how we live and deal with things that come up. Politics influences Everything we do.