One reason we don't change our behavior much is because nobody knows who is vaccinated and who is not and we don't want to normalize risky behavior among people who are unvaccinated.
We're all in this together, like it or not. Treating vaccination as a "yeehaw!" moment where you can stop caring about the pandemic is irresponsible and, quite frankly, disgustingly selfish.
And since vaccination, I have been doing a *little* bit more. I've eaten out for the first time in a year. I've gone to a museum. I've visited a bookstore. But I still practice distancing and still wear my fucking mask.
And when you try to force people into going back out into an environment that has been demonstrably dangerous, instead of letting them move at their own comfort level, you sound like the mayor from Jaws.
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Really baffled by folks who argue that airplanes are somehow all we need for mass transportation in the US. Anyone who has flown knows that air travel is stressful, expensive, and unreliable. Your flight can be canceled for any reason, and often is.
To give an anecdote about rail travel in Spain: I was once on a train that was delayed for 10 minutes, and they offered full refunds to everyone on the train.
In contrast: travel sites used to provide data on how often a flight departed on time. I think they largely stopped doing that once folks noticed that many flights departed on time less than 50% of the time.
France and Germany each have transportation systems superior to Texas.
Folks seem to be jumping in to talk about population density. That's fair, but you know what? That's *not* what the AZ Republicans were talking about. Their map is simply showing surface area.
Incidentally, Texas is 268k square miles, France is 248k. France has a population of 67 M, while Texas has a population of 29 M. A significant difference, but not enough of a difference to argue that Texas is "empty."
That episode of SMDM always stuck in my head! The premise is that the robotic probe crash-landed on Earth, thought it was on Venus, and was running around and killing people it thought were aliens to "sample" them.
That episode was so popular that they made a toy of it. I always wanted one. Hmm...