The third wave is happening as I type.
It's driven by voting turnout. It's driven by apathy from people who previously had good intentions, but are now too fatigued to care.
Anti-gov, anti-mask, anti-biden sentiment is at an all time high. Conspiracies are booming.
Mandates are not enough, if anyone is even listening to the clueless lawmakers at this point.
Coming up: thanksgiving, black friday, christmas season, christmas, new year.
I predict 700,000 cases per day on the first week of January.
How is this country so horrible.
"Don't travel for the holidays." Cue enormous tightly packed mosh pits at every single major city airport. I've said before on here: most selfish society in the history of the world.
To be fair, when every aspect of the society is selfish, you got to be. You know there's gonna be zero government help on this shit. Your horrible jobs still requiring you to come in to a rona factory for shitty pay. Your family is entirely in the same boat. Why not see each other?
Yeah I can't disagree there just fuck. The holidays are going to crush healthcare workers. These people are devastated already.
I havnt seen my dad in a couple years and was really looking forward to it, but am not this year as he is super high risk.
This isn't even that selfish though. It's not in your self-interest to be in a huge crowd during a pandemic.
Americans are just so fragile to perceived threats to their own liberty that they will risk death to exercise them