a majority of people with the clout and access to be writing “hey everyone you need to chill about the pandemic” stories are not from the communities in which the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people have been concentrated.

The demographics of major media are such that you and your friends and family worked from home and ordered in and were largely unscathed by the realities of who died and who kept dying and what their deaths did to their families and what the guilt of surviving is like

you are not from, or have no nexus to, places where the pandemic rages uncontrolled and there aren’t enough vaccines and there’s no oxygen in the hospitals. your reality is not universal, even if your judgement is sweeping.

talk all the shit you want about paranoia and virtue signalling. just know that those folks whose realities you cannot even begin to fathom can read, too.