COVID-19 Check-In Thread Part IV

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We've been screwed since the beginning, because the problem was always the people who refuse to follow quarantine instructions or vaccinate. "It's always been fine before," "It won't happen to me," and lack of a visible threat combine to make a large segment of the population impossible to convince they need to change the way they act. I have more sympathy for people whose livelihoods depended on travel or servicing people-in-large-groups but that doesn't change what behaviours hasten the spread of infection.

I don't know, considering experts have constantly warned about the potential for variants while our various policymakers and business heads drag their heels...

What I'm saying is, it's easy to forget that for everyone who can easily afford to quarantine/vaccinate but refuses to, there's someone looking to profit off them that benefits the most from these forced "return to normal" attempts.

EDIT: On that note, a useful thread.