See, people who work service jobs have *always* had to come in sick, come in when their lives are falling apart, whatever. The folks who have never had to take those jobs, or who've never been in that position even if they have once had those jobs, didn't care then.
Why would they care now? So some poors have to come in to work sick. Who cares, so long as you're not inconvenienced? This is just what it's always been but more so. This is not an anomaly suddenly revealing something ugly, it's always been here.
Personal experience here: I've worked a fair few foodservice jobs. Every one has solemnly lectured me & coworkers not to come in sick because contagion & we care about our customers etc. Every single one told me or a co-worker to come in anyway when we told them we were sick.
These callous fuckstains have always required folks to work sick or injured, to neglect themselves and their families for the convenience of the more wealthy. They have no experience of actual epidemics and think it's no big deal compared to missing their free refills.
And the people actually running these protests? Don't care who dies as long as they get to stay in power and drain the nation of every drop of blood they can get. Same as it ever was.