I don't know why people don't understand that the vaccinations don't provide the sort of protection level required to resume a pre-pandemic lifestyle during the pandemic, but they need to come to the realisation that they just fucking don't, and it's no use pretending they do.
They also don't understand that trying to push on this actually makes vaccines date faster and accelerates viral mutation, this defeating their own goal.
You were NEVER supposed to give up other mitigations.
@lhgmk2 they are convinced that deus ex machina will provide them with simple, easy solutions they don't have to think about.
And yes, masks and air filters and avoiding big crowds is simple.
But they think their machine god doesn't even require that much effort.
And a lot just haven't been taught any meaningful critical thinking skills.
Yeah, sadly, this is the conclusion I've come to, and it's the exact same conclusion that I've come to with climate change. Unless there's one thing they can do that won't change anything else in their lives, they're just not going to go along with the necessary changes to their own lives.
I've had minor variations of the conversation about COVID with multiple people that I know that ends with:
I got vaccinated. What more can you do? *cough* *shrug* *cough*
With the corollary from the last few decades of:
I recycle. What more can you do? *drives off to the mall to buy more stuff*
And the more recent one:
I put solar panels on my roof. What more could I possibly do? *drives off in an SUV*
There's simply layers beyond that wish for deus ex machina that the average person isn't willing to consider. I think that's why click bait articles of "One simple thing you can do!" are successful. Everyone will consider "one simple thing" but after that probably not.
That's why the lure of "take a shot and pandemic's over for you" was so enticing for people, even though you probably realized it was never going to happen if you thought critically about the science behind it. I'm still upset about all of the people I know who vaxxed and relaxed because they fully bought into it. "Biden and NPR said so, so it couldn't possibly be wrong."
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