Honestly, I've just plain run out of caring when it comes to people who have refused to believe Covid is real and who have refused to take the appropriate medical precautions and who have refused to get vaccinated.
I simply don't care anymore if they die from it. They and their ilk have just worn me out with one stupidity after another for the last 5 years and the emotional well of caring is bone dry.
I get it. I’m beyond sick of the childish whining and ridiculous selfishness. Compared with many so-called adults, my young niece and nephew and friends’ children (ages 4-8) have complained much less about mask mandates and school disruptions over the last year, and none of them are eligible yet for vaccination (and their parents will get them signed up ASAP). I do have sympathy for the medical workers who still have to deal with this bullshit after 15 months and 612K deaths (in my country).
Isn't "self-responsibility" a big theme with the conservatives? As in we can't have safety nets because
those people (those people other than conservatives) should have demonstrated self-responsibility and did A,B and C...
I'm at a place where if the anti-vaccine folks can't be brave and go get their shots like big boys and girls and they get sick - that's on them. When we were all waiting for vaccine availability, being extra cautious, wearing masks, staying home - I worried for us all. Not any more.
Let's make sure that anyone who wants their shots, has the opportunity to get them - provide transportation, child care, time off from work, etc. I'd like to see the government require people who can to get the damn shots.
Have the culture wars always been a thing? Are recent events (20 years) just exposing how widespread the problem is? Stupid I know, but I just never noticed until the rise of social media, conservative talk radio, Faux News, etc. I think DW and I were busy raising kids, working too much, renovating our houses, etc.