But more vulnerable to the deadly plague in workplaces, so who's to say which is better? https://twitter.com/Telegraph/status/1319881494731624449

This year is like being stuck in a loop. Working from home isn't always ideal for many reasons, but when the alternative is risking catching Covid, it's obviously the lesser of two evils.

Why do we keep having to remind the people in power that plague is bad?

No one *wants* to live like this. It benefits precisely zero political agendas to have to figure a way to keep society functioning while minimising the possibility of infection. We all want to be able to do normal stuff again.

It's not a partisan issue. It's survival.

No one is "pro lockdown" or "pro mask" or "pro the government stepping in to feed children": we've just reached a point where these things have become necessary, and the alternatives are very much worse.

We too would like to live in a world where we can go to the pub, or jostle against someone by accident without feeling a rush of panic, or go to the shops without wearing a mask.

We would like it to be possible within the basic framework of a society for children not to go hungry, without the need for legislation and stopgaps over the holidays.

But you made us live in this hellscape and now we have to work with what we have.

You don't like all these pandemic measures? Hey, neither do we! They fucking suck! Get this: we're not doing it because we enjoy it. This is not some individualist thing where we can all just please ourselves and no one has the right to condemn our personal choices.

You see how pernicious this "virtue signalling" shit has become? It's all part of the same philosophy: there is no truth, there are no consequences, nothing *matters* and everything is performative.

We cannot simply do or believe a thing because it's necessary to survival or to liberation; it must always be in service of some personal, wholly internal agenda. Selfishness is all they understand.

Christ, do you think we *enjoy* picking through our garbage and putting it into different bins based on arbitrary categories? Do you think it's *fun* engaging with the West's historical and contemporary institutionalised racial violence?

We deal with these things because the alternative is complicity. Because if we don't, the consequences will be worse.

We would love to not have to care about *gestures around* all this. But that's not a choice; you either accept responsibility for what's coming or you abdicate it. It's not a fashion statement or an exclusive club, it's simple survival.

To repeat that headline from a couple of years ago: I Don’t Know How To Explain To You That You Should Care About Other People