[loramin]

This whole phenomena of willfully risking death unnecessarily is just so incredible to me. I mean, I get it: people invest their identity in Trump and QAnon, which means they have to accept Trump/QAnon beliefs or else question their identity (something we humans hate doing: we're extremely tribal creatures). That "stick to your beliefs/tribe's beliefs" force is literally stronger than our natural self-preservation force.

But even though I understand it on some level, it just feels like the bad punchline to a Simpsons joke or something. In 20 years from now, people just won't even understand how millions of Americans willfully chose to get Covid and die; it won't make any sense at all to them out of context.