The people kvetching about the jab but who went back to regular life after getting vaxxed are ironically bigger risks collectively than unvaxxed people. It's part of the reason I can't take covid seriously, everyone is screaming their heads but no one knows what they're talking about and no is making even moderate concessions. It's just one big clown show.
To a limited degree I'd agree; most of my fellow citizens were patting themselves on the back for not being like those darn dirty anti-vaxxers, like those ignorant Trump supporters, but at the same time a lot of them were both publicly meeting up with people and not wearing masks/social distancing and also privately (i.e. illegally during the various lockdowns) arranging haircuts for themselves (when salons were closed) and having parties.
I also think a lot of shops doing silly shit like having glorified sneezeguards (but often not wearing masks themselves!) and hand sanitiser all around (even though the virus barely spreads through fomites) is like a "big clown show", a circus of performance of appearing to fight the virus but largely not doing anything effective, if at all. Honestly, yes, there is always a risk of going out and shopping with the virus if one isn't
social distancing; even masks can only do so much.
I, for the most part, avoided shops throughout 2020 and half of 2021 thanks to grocery deliveries and I just let my hair grow until salons were reopened and didn't go to parties/social meetups. I only went outside to parks and other spacious outside locations throughout those two years, wearing a mask. The few times I met anyone I always insisted we meet outside. Finally getting vaccinated was one of the few times I found myself in a public building during the pandemic and since then (along with a booster) I go to shops, though I continue to do the bulk of shopping via delivery.
But now that societies have been reopened and Omicron has proven to not be as deadly as the previous Delta strain, it's still up to citizens to get fully-vaccinated (and boosted), least they overfill hospitals and ICUs with their coofing; the vast majority of those unvaccinated in my country are the lumpenproletariat underclass, the odd new age boomer dipshit, and immigrants from ignorant shitholes (where they also spread measles and syphilis! joy! and even potentially polio until WHO-backed efforts have largely eradicated it).
If I had it my way those fucking around in 2020-2021 and catching the virus (I caught the virus shortly before the first lockdown) probably deserved to make room for those with cancers that need to be screened and surgeries that couldn't be cancelled, but that would have meant at least hundreds of thousands, if not millions, more deaths, and I'm sure the same anti-vaxxer crowd would have shat themselves and mass-panicked. Even now I feel society should be completely opened up and hospitals wards and ICUs prioritised to non-Covid patients and vaccinated patients only. Public health resources should not be wasted on idiots given plenty of time to get vaccinated by now.
