Like would a Spanish flu level pandemic do it? How many bodies gotta drop before they’re scared into masking
Honestly with how the backlash went I think the well has been poisoned for any future pandemics. I don’t think people will take precautions unless it is something visibly disfiguring like leprosy or something.
My mother always said that if people bled from their eyes or had massive losses of weight it might work. Might.
I kind of see what she means, but I think they’d kill us all for the economy rather than shut down again.
My mom said if the first few waves had killed kids then maybe we’d have beaten it by now. Thing is that it did, and it continues to kill kids.
Speaking as a teacher, it wasn’t a surprise seeing our school board spent that first summer reviewing recommendations. Only to send kids back in the fall without any substantial changes. No real protections other than a chronically divorced SRO who’d only be at our building on Wednesdays and who had an office for some reason. That and about 100 books we had to remove from the library.
I don’t think things would much different if it killed the billionaire class’s children. You think Pharaoh gave a shit about Moses killing his kid?
Bad phrasing. Do you think Pharaoh gave a shit about his kid after Moses explicitly told him he would die in a tenth plague?
The problem with covid is that its effects are delayed: My relatives don’t understand that asymptomatic spread means that they’re contagious before they have symptoms, don’t understand that even if their covid feels “very mild”, they can still get long covid, etc. People don’t correlate covid’s effects with covid itself because it’s not on the timeline they expect for a respiratory virus.
if covid made ya dick small
tbh I don’t think even that would work, they would blame “woke” food additives or something in the water
Actual punishment (including enforcement) for not masking or using a bogus mask, that’s all it would take
Like mass shootings or other disasters, the rich and their families and children have to be affected. If they’re free from all consequences, there will be no policy.
Wealthier, whiter, suburbaner schools are more likely to have mass shootings than poorer schools. So even when they are affected, this cursed country is incapable of doing anything about it.
