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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When 99.98% of the people who get COVID don’t die or have any severe side effects, it’s hard for many people to get really worked up about COVID. And younger, healthy people have even better odds. They really aren’t at risk. Trying to get them to care about strangers they don’t know is hard over the long haul. [/quote]
It’s a real hard sell to younger people, who are probably more at risk from dying in a traffic accident on the way to the bar than they are from dying due to COVID, to keep staying home indefinitely.

The message that you should sacrifice for others, with nothing in return, was always going to go over like a lead balloon. Especially in a society where the older generations (looking at you, baby boomers) would not be making any sacrifices if this was primarily a disease that killed young people. [/quote]

This, 100 times! I have a friend whose 72 year old parents got Covid from hanging out in a bar. So, all the young people have to stay home but the boomers can go to bars?[/quote]
To be fair, lots of people around the country are going to bars. In many places, whatever perfunctory restrictions exist aren’t being followed or enforced. I visited my parents this summer in Florida. Restaurants and bars were pretty much back to normal.

Maybe I’m fatalistic, but I  predicted months ago that large swathes of the population were going to ignore restrictions as much as they could get away with. And I knew that once younger people starting realizing just how little risk this virus posed to them, they were going to live like this pandemic was already over.

You can see that even public health officials have basically given up at this point. I think if you asked someone like Fauci to honestly tell you if he thinks people are going to change their behavior while we wait for the vaccine to be distributed, he’d have to say no.[/quote]

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