> "people are some combination of 1) scared, and 2) spiteful. Wanting to see the economy fail to punish rich people and corporations."
that's an odd conception of what's going on. because they control capital, the well off among us (esp. in CA) imposed restrictions of movement/congregation and economic travesty upon the rest to decrease by tenths of a percent their risk of contracting and dying from covid, while largely ignoring those same restrictions for themselves. this is a serious, existential concern for our democratic republic, and an extremely poor allocation of resources from an economic perspective.
the mode of transmission is straightforward: prolonged exposure to the exhaust of others (not the air, not surfaces, not touching, but breathing exhaust). we could have gotten the same level of mitigation for much less intervention by radically simplifying messaging for the public (hospitals and care facilities should have more elaborate mitigations) down to one simple rule: "distance indoors around strangers, and where you can't, wear a mask." but that didn't serve media or political interests (as expressors of the wealthy) well, so we have the mess we're in.
that's an odd conception of what's going on. because they control capital, the well off among us (esp. in CA) imposed restrictions of movement/congregation and economic travesty upon the rest to decrease by tenths of a percent their risk of contracting and dying from covid, while largely ignoring those same restrictions for themselves. this is a serious, existential concern for our democratic republic, and an extremely poor allocation of resources from an economic perspective.
the mode of transmission is straightforward: prolonged exposure to the exhaust of others (not the air, not surfaces, not touching, but breathing exhaust). we could have gotten the same level of mitigation for much less intervention by radically simplifying messaging for the public (hospitals and care facilities should have more elaborate mitigations) down to one simple rule: "distance indoors around strangers, and where you can't, wear a mask." but that didn't serve media or political interests (as expressors of the wealthy) well, so we have the mess we're in.