This whole series reminds me of the "Gamers are Dead" lockstep media coverage that started us down this road to KIA in the first place. Why the actual fuck should we be envious of someone who has turned into a sheep and jammed the barely-out-of-beta vaccine into their body? Don't get me wrong, I'm not an anti-vaxxer - I just don't trust something that was rushed through clinical trials and has only been in the wild for a couple months.

The other part of me looks at this and thinks, "This is just NPC programming going out to the masses." The NPCs don't know what to feel so they're taking their cues from the media. They (the progenitors of the articles) are projecting out into the world that the NPCs should feel envy because the NPCs are so emotionally stunted they can only handle child-like emotions - "Bobby got his shot, so he can go out and play with Susie. Don't you want, that, too?" It's utter lunacy.