My parents and oldest brother are vaccinated (at risk and essential workers) and my next older brother will be vaccinated soon. I can't be vaccinated yet, I'm not qualified, but I'm praying I can be soon so I can go back to normal. I'm low-risk anyway, I double mask, social distance, haven't eaten inside a restaurant in over a year. Yes, I do miss normality. But is making only you comfortable worth risking the lives of potentially hundreds of people? I've been forced to quarantine several times over this past year when I got exposed. I am good about COVID regulations, etc. but life happens. I'm still in-person at school and church. Haven't gotten COVID yet, which is a great blessing.
What deeply saddens me (among many things) about this virus is the blatant ignorance and selfishness of people. If they could fit a microchip into that vaccine, your phone would be a LOT smaller. Going into Target recently with a friend, she was reluctant to put on a mask that barely covered her mouth and nose- I had to ask her to put a mask on. She constantly refers to COVID as the "fancy flu," how it's fake, not a big deal, brags about indoor maskless sleepovers, etc. Whenever she says this stuff, I'm floored. Okay, go tell my immunocompromised father and brother that it's not a big deal if they get this virus that would likely kill them. Go tell the families of the nearly 3 million dead COVID victims that it's fake. Go ahead- tell them that it doesn't matter. Imply that your comfort and happiness matters more than the greater good and the countless lives at stake that could be lost because you really wanted that sleepover. That that spouse, sibling, mother, father, best friend, relative- that their deaths were because of "government brainwashing."
Sorry for the long post, I don't have anyone to talk to about this IRL.
