Thank you for making the effort to type out such a clear explanation. Covid further ratcheted up my hopelessness in people's ability to maintain the most basic

Thank you for making the effort to type out such a clear explanation. Covid further ratcheted up my hopelessness in people's ability to maintain the most basic grasp on how reality works. But in the early days, it was insanity-inducing to try and reason with friends who though the solution was a super-easy "just have every single person lock themselves inside with 100% compliance for two weeks and poof". It's an unfortunate consequence of the complexity that allowed society to become so unimaginably rich that many people are so detached from the reality of what it takes to make everything work; it's even more unfortunate that these people vote.