[mackwell]

I wish it worked that way too, and we could all just care about ourselves. But others refusal to vaccinate / take precautions when necessary allows it to continue to spread (killing innocent immunosuppressed people along the way) and ultimately mutate into new variations, beginning the cycle of isolation and fear all over again. It’s a catch 22 unfortunately. We can’t ever get to 100% vaccination / precautionary isolation in order to eradicate the disease, and we also can’t stop caring or trying to because if we don’t it will never end and we will continue to need to develop new vaccines (if possible) trying to catch up to new variants. It seems we just have to play this game until the dominant variant(s) really are as weak as the flu, and just hope it doesn’t mutate the other direction into a more deadly strain that sends us back to square one repeatedly (or into mass extinction). Man this blows.

If anyone wants to prove me wrong please do, I find my view of this extremely depressing.