Dont bother giving me the benefit of your doubt, Im not giving you the benefit of mine.
What makes my life not sad, and its own reward in its own way, was enabled decades ago when I learnt to ignore other people views on what constitutes a sad life, or how they rate my life as on the sadometer. I'm not asking anyone else to be like me, or even to like me, and I'm just living my life with the hand I've been dealt. It works for me, to an extent at least, I could always hope for more but that hope is usually misplaced.
Look, even if you won an argument against people like me, it wouldnt genuinely help your cause. Because its the virus, and the failure of feeble and inappropriate attempts to keep it below levels the system cant cope with, that forces us into highly restrictive measures over rather long periods of time. Most of what we've had to endure is not the result of people like me's stance at all, because the government instincts were more like yours than mine. And that shit repeatedly blew up in their face, forcing the crude handbrake to be applied. Leaving people understandably nervous about whether the same thing will happen again this time, a time when the government are loudly proclaiming that they are throwing away the handbrake forever.
If we get through the next period without doom, then there should end up being considerably less of a gap between my sort of stance by then and your position. In some basic ways at least, probably we will never have much in common in terms of the underlying pandemic detail by the sounds of it. Never mind, we dont need to get along. But be clear, my position does evolve as the rest of reality changes, just because its not happening at the same pace as yours doesnt mean we are actually on opposite sides of the universe.
