I always hear, "only sick and old people die." You mean like people over 70? Maybe wheelchair-bound, high blood pressure, obesity, multiple heart surgeries, diabetes, on dialysis, lung infection, undergoing cancer treatment? Only those people die.
Those people are my parents. I'm the sole caretaker. "Only" those people is a big part of my life. Now, a bunch of cold heartless fucks will tell me they're going to die anyway. I'm aware they'll die, but I'm not trying to apply the gas pedal on that like they're trying to force me to.
People seem to think the solution is, I should hole up and not be allowed to enter society and earn a dollar while taking care of them, as if medical debt wasn't enough by itself to bankrupt us. But if I go out, I wear a mask so I can show some consideration and safety to those around me, who flagrantly choose not to respect that in return, and even insult for it. A lot of the time, they don't even know how masks work, and they think me wearing it protects me, because they can't grasp grade school science. The truth is, living in a society comes with civic responsibilities, and if anyone should "hole up," it's the grassroots sociopath so-called "libertarians" (in name only) who give no shits about public concerns over the individual, since they all have the wet dream fantasy of living in the woods and being self-sufficient anyway. Don't want to vaccinate? Don't want to mask? Fine. Don't enter the world. Go get some fertile ground, grow some crops, live off the land, put a big fence around your property and stay there. Don't try to benefit from a society you so brazenly don't want to commit to. The concept of the "social contract" is the reason society and civilization was developed and that we're not currently in mongoloid tribes. If you want to ignore the contract, go be a tribe.