…governing bodies (especially Republican, although it's not limited to just Republicans) with their current frenzied push to reopen everything, lift mandates and get life back to "normal" are simply saying, "Fuck it. Let god sort 'em out. It's fine if we lose half the population. They are too many people anyway."
How did we survive the last ice age? How did we get this far along the evolutionary ladder and yet remain so fundamentally…stupid?
Ironically, the more vax/mask policies abandoned, the fewer antivaxxers/antimaskers we'll have to deal with. The collateral damage is, however, the one thing that prevents me from simply throwing up my hands and saying, "you do you," because it affects everyone.
Caring about other people is apparently out of fashion these days. I weep for our species.