Imagine if COVID was like Polio...

If COVID was actually dangerous to the majority of the population, we'd probably be more united about how we planned to deal with it. Right now COVID is just politics, people complain about the large number of deaths but at the same time believe the bare minimum protections (like wearing masks) is actually a viable solution. It isn't, and if anything it propagated a false belief that wearing a mask means you're safe to go fly on planes, go to parties, or otherwise spread the virus... social distancing is a down right joke, the science fully supports that it does next to nothing compared to actually self-quarantining. Our whole "if you're vaccinated you can't catch it, so stop wearing masks and go out and party" ignores completely decades of medical science and the push against anti-vaxxers.

Look at how we're now fearful of the delta variant but we still don't have the guts to do the one thing that has proven time and time again to be effective against a pandemic. Shut down travel.