What I don’t get is that the vaccine means that there’s now a solid reason to not get infected, yet somehow people are acting like the opposite is true, treating it as a reason to abandon preventative measures. Like they’ve confused “vaccine” with “cure.”
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you weren’t listening to economists again were you? saying people are rational actors? 
i feel like people somewhat ignore how these things work at a personal level. it’s more like, if i do these things it’ll slow or stop the virus generally. with a bit of that whole, if im a good person i won’t be harmed thing rather actual physical mechanical safety.
so paradoxically they see the vaccine and they’re like: oh we don’t have to slow it down so much now, because the fix is almost here. by the time it gets to me or mine, we’ll have the fix.
it’s really hard to internalize that yes, i myself might get suddenly ill, and that it’s people just like me causing the virus to spread. it must still somehow be other people. people different than me. doing something wrong. not like me. i am safe. etc.
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I’ll haaaaave a…flu Christmas without you…
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Is it possible for a Canadian to apply to the Department of Homeland Security for a partial refund on his NEXUS card? Asking for a friend.
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I expect irrationality. I don’t really expect, “Oh, I’m soaked with kerosene? Time to start lighting matches!”
Right, that seems to be the thinking, which would actually make sense if there was a cure, rather than a vaccine, but that’s not the case… Up until now there was a lot of recklessness because “I/my family/whoever are going to get it eventually,” but that’s no longer the case. Yet the thinking hasn’t changed. (Gosh, it’s almost like the real issue is they couldn’t be bothered to do what was required, and have justified it in various ways even as the situation has changed…)
The only time I’ve listened to an economist was taking intro economics in college. The teacher stated, frequently, that nothing we were going to learn in that class was, in any way, actually true. A lot of students seemed confused by this, for some reason.
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So… You are going to find the gasoline fight scene in Zoolander much more painful to watch now…
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Honestly. That’s probably for the best.
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