70,000 people, all quarantined together in a fucking mudpit, rumor has it a highly contagious virus is spreading through the festival grounds and festival goers are walking around barefoot in the mood and are going to get all sort of nasty foot diseases. There’s food and water rationing in effect and really the only co conclusion I can get from this is that somebody is probably gonna die from this.
Like since covid I think we as a society realized but haven’t yet actually accepted is that large social gatherings are a societal danger and we shouldn’t be doing them for fun. Yes I never went out in college, my friend group consisted of my dnd group, normalize that instead of super spreader crowd crusher mass gatherings. My opinion on this is the same with guns and cars, abolition would be a good thing. Now I’m a realist, the people want their treats, sometimes a mass gathering like a protest is necessary. Can we at least all agree that there needs to be some change in the way we as a society do huge fucking events like this?
In conclusion burning man sucks, hippies aren’t communist.
There are sterilising vaccines and better anti vitarals on the way, so it’ll definitely get better in the next two years. Also lots of us are living with vulnerable people. I’m definitely reading between the lines of what you’re saying, and not talking your literal word. But please don’t go to festivals, putting yourself at an infection risk, and then unmask at shops and mass transit where vulnerable people cannot avoid.
If you’re one of those rare people that parties hard like COVID is over, yet masks everywhere else, then you’re a champ.
it only gets better when vaccines are mandated, and that aint gonna happen. Flu vaccine isn’t mandated either, so that’s why it’s still around. If the polio vaccine had been an option that would still be around too. America at this point will always have 40% of the population proudly unvaccinated. COVID will keep mutating and stay around. I do everything I can and that’s all anyone can do until we start tying people down and vaccinating them forcefully.