Friend of my mom& #39;s - elderly widow - stayed in for a solid year. Finally found a vax an hour away. Eyesight poor; asked daughter to drive. Daughter did so (both masked) -- had Covid. Mom caught it in the car going to/from her 1st shot. Now in hospice. Daughter suicidal.

O Henry

In fiction, we call this "the inevitability of retrospect." It means that when you get to the end of the story its makes sense that the conclusion was ordained by the preceding facts. Those would be:

1. Mother sacrificed a full year of life -- her last, as it turned out -- went nowhere/saw no one

2. Pursuit of vaccine at all costs (driving an hour, daughter taking day off work) was prioritized

3. Simultaneously, vaccines & #39;sold& #39; through fear porn as necessary to populations (young, normal BMI) that vied for them at convenient corner-store locations, so truly at-risk lady was driving an hour.

4. Messages that masks + & #39;people who take the virus seriously& #39; confer some mystic, talismanic protection.

5. Utterly corrosive Dark Ages idea that the person who is the original host for a virus & #39;kills& #39; the people it transmits to from her.