i'm all for using common sense over blind rule-following, but I've been having a hard time relating to much of the language i see on here comparing using masks and exercising caution to "huddling in fear" or being "a life not worth preserving"; isn't this a bit too dramatic?

not to make light of people who's lives have legitimately either been taken away or ruined by this pandemic, but for very many of us, its just been a sort of minor inconvenience, maybe with some extra psychological strain; nowhere near as torturous as many of these tweets suggest

really, what is so bad about wearing masks a bit more often than you'd like to, or trying to protect the vulnerable? i get that lockdowns have constituted a transfer of wealth across classes, & do need to be balanced against liberty, but should we not try and protect the elderly?

i see many viewpoints around here denouncing any & all lockdowns on account of their violation of abstract principles, and I do agree, to a certain point; but many of these calls seem much more extreme than I consider warranted. are our model of civics really that different?