The situation around COVID is very concerning. When it first became clear that the virus was spreading and becoming a pandemic, my personal thoughts were that the only way this can end is with a vaccine or by letting it run it's course. It's nice to be able to work from home while my wife collects unemployment checks that are worth double what she actually made while working, but that's only short-term. The long-term is what worries me.
The politics around this issue are shitty. If a politician spoke out with similar thoughts to the ones I expressed in my previous paragraph, they would lose supporters. People want to hear that things are going to get better if they stay at home and wear masks, but with how relaxed the restrictions are here (USA), it's only going to curb the spread; the virus isn't disappearing. So the question is, how long, and at what cost, do we keep pretending that staying home is fixing the problem. The goal posts keep moving.
The fact of the matter is that making the virus spread stop completely requires the compliance of just about every single person in our nation (or the world) to take it seriously, and that can't happen when people are at the point of wanting to relax restrictions.
So yeah, be a good citizen, stay at home, wear a mask, etc, etc, but just know that some asshat is offsetting everyone else' efforts by going to the grocery store during peak hours and wearing his mask under his nose, and then coughing on the cashier, who is only doing her job because she's "essential". Just like GameStop is essential.
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