In my opinion

This big lie. The anti vax movement. The mask stupidity. The nonsense around Afghanistan. Climate change denial. It's all interconnected and has one common thread: people simply can not accept change.

And because people they … admire? … tell them that it's affecting "our way of life" that's enough to set off the alarm that change is happening.

People simply want to be lazy and live the way they think they always have and return to "normal" (whatever that is). They can't be bothered to make a small sacrifice. To work for any sort of common good because they've bought into this perspective.

And whenever anyone wants to upend this complacency, it's easy to get belligerent or violent.

So you look around: football is back, baby! With large crowds. Theaters are resuming operation and box office receipts are huuuge. Because people want to return to what they knew before.

Give up my gas car? Believe that someone else could possibly win an election (and therefore undermine my beliefs) when the braggadocio blowhard was saying all the things I wanted to hear? And as for a virus. I can't see it and can't sent out troops after it, so god will protect me or I'm "smart enough" to not let it affect me.

Good luck to us all.