This is the thing. Part of me would love to move to the middle of nowhere and shut out the world. But another part of me wants to band together with a group of like minded people and get things done.
Why not both? Coming from the middle of nowhere, to the coast, and back again, I can tell you that most people outside the major metropolitan areas don't really think about Covid all that much. You still have mask policies in hospitals and airports but even those are sometimes ignored.
Nobody gets tested when they have the sniffles so there are no "alarming" number of cases. Not many are getting or plan on getting vaccinated. Most people are just out living life like always.
The problem becomes, no one has a plan for when those types of policies are more forcefully imposed. You can openly air grievance against the mainstream narrative without too much fear of rebuttal. But because of that freedom, many assume it will always be business as usual.
Why not both? Coming from the middle of nowhere, to the coast, and back again, I can tell you that most people outside the major metropolitan areas don't really think about Covid all that much. You still have mask policies in hospitals and airports but even those are sometimes ignored.
Nobody gets tested when they have the sniffles so there are no "alarming" number of cases. Not many are getting or plan on getting vaccinated. Most people are just out living life like always.
The problem becomes, no one has a plan for when those types of policies are more forcefully imposed. You can openly air grievance against the mainstream narrative without too much fear of rebuttal. But because of that freedom, many assume it will always be business as usual.