Early in COVID, someone said to me, “survival rates are good - it’s only going to affect the weak.”

…without realizing the irony that he was mid-40s, overweight, and had had an acute heart problem.

The funny thing about the “natural immunity” crowd is that they don’t seem to grasp their own comorbidities.

Yet of the unvaccinated COVID patients admitted to hospital, 2/3 admitted they regretted not getting vaccinated.

I guess everybody’s brave until they’re in a hospital bed with a low pulse ox.

I mean, even the idea of "it's only going to affect the weak" is disgusting and horrible. "The weak" is someone's grandmother, or their dad with a heart transplant, or their newborn baby. There is some pretty filthy, wretched ideology in the world that says very similar things about people it perceives as not worthy of being alive. And someday, for any of us who are blessed to live that long, we will be weak, too. We will be infirm. We will arrive at the end of our lives deserving protection, too, just like all of those people who were wantonly discarded during the pandemic.

Every life lost is a tragedy, especially when it is, to an extent, preventable. Not perfectly, and not without mistakes, but we could've done better than we did. It's heartbreaking that so many people are so willing to sacrifice the very people society should be trying to protect.