The problem is that they've seemed to construe to the general populace that the facts of life are to be eliminated at all costs.
I got the virus. It hardly did anything, save for fucking up my taste/smell. My taste is still compromised, I can't taste certain things. I accept it (unlike the vaccine). Even if it doesn't ever fully come back, oh well. Someone can swerve into my car on the interstate during my morning commute and turn me into a vegetable. C'est la fucking vie.
They fucked up this thought process for a lot of people. If a risk can be mitigated, it should be to the greatest extent possible, regardless of implications. Obviously that's insane and untenable.. and like, these people still regularly get inside a car, so they're wildly inconsistent as well. But that's what's happened.
The problem is that they've seemed to construe to the general populace that the facts of life are to be eliminated at all costs.
I got the virus. It hardly did anything, save for fucking up my taste/smell. My taste is still compromised, I can't taste certain things. I accept it (unlike the vaccine). Even if it doesn't ever fully come back, oh well. Someone can swerve into my car on the interstate during my morning commute and turn me into a vegetable. C'est la fucking vie.
They fucked up this thought process for a lot of people. If a risk can be mitigated, it should be to the greatest extent possible, regardless of implications. Obviously that's insane and untenable.. and like, these people still regularly get inside a car, so they're wildly inconsistent as well. But that's what's happened.
I hear that takes 6 months. TBH, assuming you don't die, that's kind of like the worst of the "more than likely" things that could happen.
It's the classic authoritarian move: present a false choice between freedom and safety, while actually denying both.