[sugarwood]

I don't get what’s going on in this country. I don't get why people can’t just wear masks.
This anti-science, anti-media, anti-rules, anarchy and rebellion type behavior is really deep in this country.

Americans just wont do what they are told to do.
This isn’t a British King we are fighting. It’s public health.
I'm just really perplexed by the state of the country and this pandemic.

People are selfish and hate change.
They’ve been going to bars for 40 years and don’t want to change.

Americans are profoundly self centered.
They can’t be bothered to care about others.
They can’t be bothered to wear masks.

The F'ed up thing is Boomers and every generation after them equates wearing a mask with intolerable fascism,
when the Boomers' parents actually fought fascism and made huge sacrifices to do so:
• Basic staples, like sugar, were rationed
• Car factories were converted to making tanks and airplanes
• Pantyhose were so rare they became a black market item
• On both the east and west coasts, mandatory curfews were imposed
• Even in places like New Jersey, houses were required to black out their windows and turn off their lights, every night
• And, the federal government put people with Italian and Japanese relatives in concentration camps (but not Germans, even though German-Americans are the largest single ethnic group in the US)

COVID will kill more Americans in one year than WWII did in four,
and today's idiot snowflakes think wearing a mask and getting Applebee's takeout is worse than fighting the Axis powers.

Social media accelerates the knee jerk, dumb as rocks feedback loop and prevents people from even engaging basic reasoning skills.