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I was waiting in line yesterday at Costco to return something. The return line was packed and clerk came by and ordered people to wait outside. There was a guy
by dukeofdoom 5y ago
I was waiting in line yesterday at Costco to return something. The return line was packed and clerk came by and ordered people to wait outside. There was a guy that took issue with this because it was cold outside. The clerk called the manager. The manager came over and he said, "Look I got 2 shoots and a booster. Why do you want to make me wait outside when it's cold" The manager smoothed things over, and let the guy wait inside. But over the entire commotion I ended up talking to a guy behind me. This was a man in his 70s. He was returning a chrome book. He bought it to stream TV and the thing couldn't play back smoothly, and he didn't like the quality of the speakers. He started complaining about whats going in the world. How he feels sorry for the new generation. Seeing kids masked up and not able to communicate and play freely. How expensive things are, especially housing. How expensive organic food is now, and how it was the common food back before. And he concluded that what we are seeing is Bill Gates and tech companies take over the world. For his age, he looked very fit and healthy. Maybe this was just a rant, but I can't help that this is a pretty common sentiment now.
People got the shots, and things still didn't change. People feel lied to. The tolerance for mandates is eroding quick. Willingness to take more booster shots is not there, people are dropping out. And its questionable if more booster shots will even work.
Mental health, and well being of society needs to be the much bigger consideration.
Also you can't look at covid in isolation. Look at the overall mortality rate.
And those numbers are up. Deaths unrelated to covid are up too.