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> we don't want to because we're tired of wearing masks on the bus and for some reason have tied protecting yourself personally to a political ideology.

This is so incredibly rude and dismissive. It's straight up bullying. It requires a serious amount of privilege to think people should hunker down in some kind of "new normal" like the die-hard zero covid people suggest.

Perhaps the vast majority of people are well aware of the actual risks of covid and have decided that there are thousands of problems in their life that have to to take priority over one single respiratory illness with a vaccine. To expect the entire world to live this kind of myopic covid-centric lifestyle for years on end with zero defined end-state is complete and utter nonsense. It is scary to me how long society managed to get fooled into playing along.

This might come as a shock to some of the more hard-core covid people but there exists millions of other problems in the world besides just COVID.