Does anyone remember this #flattenthecurve graphic from March 2020? It's been a while so I want to revisit it. A thread. 
In March 2020, we were told that we had to take extreme measures to "flatten the curve" and avoid overwhelming our hospital system. That was the goal. Eventually most of us would get covid, but we had to do what we could to avoid all getting it at the same time
And then at some point, a bunch of people decided that their personal goal was no longer communal (avoid hospital overflow) but personal: avoid getting covid, for as long as possible, possibly forever. Everyone wanted to be the person who made it through this without getting it.
That made a certain amount of sense pre-vaccine, when getting covid carried a non-zero risk of hospitalization (gotta protect the hospitals!) or serious illness, or spreading it to vulnerable relatives. But post vaccine? What's the goal here?
I think this explains the litany of rageful "I did everything right and still got covid!" stories. People feel like they sacrificed for 19 months to avoid personally getting covid, and now that they have it they wonder what the point of that sacrifice is.
The point was to prevent hospital overflow!! But people are so self-centered that they cannot conceive of sacrifice for a communal goal that may not benefit you personally and directly. I get it, it sucks to be the broken egg.
What really bothers me now is the idea of people who won't wear masks or otherwise curtail their lives being called selfish. Who's selfish - the person who won't act to prevent you from getting a cold, or the person who demands that everyone act to prevent them from getting sick?
At this point, if you want to avoid getting covid, you need to take that on yourself. You cannot continue to demand that society comport itself in a way to prevent them from getting covid. We avoided hospital overflow, it's over, the end.
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