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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. [b]So, all the young people have to stay home but the boomers can go to bars?[/b][/quote]

This is a real thing and has been obvious since March and April. I left my condo in early April for a masked walk after about 5 weeks and it was like every person on the street was over 65. My Boomer parents have been decent, but it took a bit to get them there and they and their friends were way more risky than any of my friends in our 30s. And those were people on lockdown in NYC! Don't get me started on what my friends parents were up to in places like Florida and Texas...[/quote]

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