My compromise between personal covid responsibility and the lack of government safety nets has been to get a high-quality mask, double-mask during spikes and new variants, allow myself to go to a single large outdoor event back in January, and hunker back down as new variants start to spread. I do small get-togethers with people whose exposure can be traced, so we can isolate the germ trail if it becomes a concern. We don't go to restaurants or movie theatres or bars or cons.
So the cognitive dissonance with the people whose compromise was, "eh, fuck it, let's just go back to normal" is fucking baffling and extremely infuriating.
Y'all posted "haha I'm never taking my mask off" memes and then just...stopped wearing your masks. What the fuck kind of hypocrisy??? Were you genuinely not serious when you shared those memes?? Am I just overly literal, here?
Why the FUCK are so many of you not wearing masks anymore???????????