We don’t want to get sick anymore, we don’t agree with the idea of the risk being worth the reward… what reward? Being able to have a mediocre dinner at an overpriced restaurant?

I resonate hard with that and what I'm watching people in my life do. I could see taking a risk for a major opportunity for your life's passion or something, but risking your fucking health for like bar trivia and Olive Garden or whatever blows me away.

I have a strong suspicion that covid brain damage fucked with a lot of people's ability for delaying gratification and risk assessment. Ya know, in addition what this capitalist hellscape already does.

It also probably doesn't help that doing risk assessment on the habits and things that you base your life and identity around require a level of self-reflection that this hellscape greatly discourages in favor of consumption.