There will always be a dangerous variant lurking for opportunistic times.
There will be a certain group that will never pivot, even if COVID was completely eradicated. "We must continue to mask and distance and restrict gatherings in case a new variant, which isn't here yet, pops up." Some in the doomer crowd are genuinely traumatized by COVID and others like the power and relevance it has given them (like Fauci and his sycophants) and they'll never let it go.
I say that because even I underestimated the doomers. I thought that when a vaccine became widely and readily available, they would pivot to a "if you're unvaxxed, get COVID, and get really sick or die, that's your fault" viewpoint because they'd see that as a way to "own" unvaxxed MAGA people.
Instead, many of them seem to have embraced a type of vaccine skepticism themselves, because they continue to advocate all these unreasonable precautions, including lockdowns, even though a vaccine is widely available. It's as though many of them doubt that the vaccine prevents serious symptoms, even though they'd never admit that.
The vaccine is like a seatbelt...even if nobody else wears one, if you wear one, it still increases
your chance of not getting seriously hurt or killed in a car wreck. If nobody else wears their seatbelt and you wear yours, who cares? Does your seatbelt somehow not work if you get into a wreck with someone who isn't wearing theirs? Go out and live your life.
