what the fuck is with the "it doesnt matter how vaccinated our population is, the whole WORLD needs it for it to matter" people

like im going full time doorknob licker when i get my own 2nd dose let alone friends and family let alone some dude in like sierra leone

— Steven Binch (@GrimConch) June 5, 2021

There is some legitimate worry about variants (though the danger there is way overhyped), but there were indeed many people espousing the view that until the entire world was fully vaccinated, we should all wear 20 masks while cowering under the bed wailing dolefully, never emerging to breathe the free air.

How long will it take for everyone to get vaccinated? Ten years? Twenty? The answer of course is that will never happen due to the anti-vaxxers, so we’d have to hide inside and wear masks eternally. Which, of course, is the covert goal of which you are not supposed to speak.

The pandemic became about so much more than the pandemic, in ways both accidental and deliberate.