I thought it was an interesting read.
During this third wave, I’ve been really struggling with blaming individuals for wanting to go against advice. Why would anyone follow the rules if it’s making their lives considerably worse?
This paragraph particularly I thought was good:
“An abstinence-only message might mean people defy you, spend more time indoors (to avoid being judged), and end up spreading the virus far more than if you gave them safer options. In an effort to aim for perfect, we end up doing a worse job than had we lowered our ambition from the outset. Just as with sex education, abstinence-only approaches may even backfire. Ideas and strategies to lower the risk is a better path forward.”
Like drugs and sex, telling people not to do something isn’t going to work.
My thoughts: I don’t give a shit what any comfortable middle class mouth breather with a loving family and stay at home office job thinks about what I have to do to survive.
I’m not going anywhere for Thanksgiving, but the amount of hand-wringing from fundamentally comfortable people who’ve sacrificed nothing makes me want to do so out of spite.
Oh, you’ve stayed home every day since lockdown because you have some bullshit makework office job, don’t live in a food desert, can afford grocery delivery, and have all your social needs fulfilled at home? Wow, you must be Hercules to go through such a fucking endeavor.
Fuck off with this stupid shit. There’s a big fucking difference between “don’t have sex before marriage because it’s a sin” and “don’t go to big gatherings in a pandemic that has already killed hundreds of thousands of mostly poor people, especially while hospitals are over capacity”
Why would anyone follow the rules if it’s making their lives considerably worse?
Giving a shit about other people?
Prisoner’s dilemma. “I’m not gonna miss out if nobody else is. Besides, I’m probably gonna get it later, anyway, so might as well enjoy myself. Everyone else is. I’m not a sucker.”
broke: Thanksgiving
woke: Festival of Nurgle
