(01-19-2022, 04:40 PM)Dancefortwo Wrote: And you are so right. Evangelicals have the lowest vaccine rate at 57% but Hispanics, a group who is as disenfrancised as anyone here in the US, are at 86% vaccinated. People from poor countries who see what happens first hand when children aren't vaccinated line up in droves to get their children vaccinated.
This pandemic has really exposed (among many other ugly things) just how vast the chasm between the privileged and the disadvantaged is. And just how revoltingly blind a lot of us are to our own - incredible - privelege.
Thus, some can't stop whining about the effect the pandemic has had on their lifestyle...
... while others have to worry about its effect on their life (and those are the ones who even have a life still).
So, while there are people forced to risk their lives in order to have something to eat, people losing their houses and livelihoods, I have less than zero sympathy for those bemoaning the fact that they can't go to the theatre or have a mojito garden party. Zero sympathy and quite a bit of disgust.
Coincidentally, came across this just yesterday: "The pandemic is birthing billionaires and killing the poor"
"We enter 2022 witnessing the biggest increase in billionaire wealth since records began. A billionaire was created every 26 hours during this pandemic. The wealth of the world’s 10 richest men alone has doubled, rising at a rate of $15,000 per second. But COVID-19 has left 99 percent of humanity worse off."
Spoiler:
“We drift down time, clutching at straws. But what good's a brick to a drowning man?”