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by maxerickson 1881 days ago
I think there's some things that are pretty common.

The exponential nature of the spread makes it so that things are getting very risky well before the risk is obvious or apparent.

The payoff for avoiding a surge is pretty abstract. For a lot of people it ends up being that people they don't know don't get sick, and things like that.

And then a year is a long time to deal with reduced socialization, we are social animals, "quarantine fatigue" isn't surprising in relation to that.