I had hoped that the pandemic might give us a common cause to unite against, and instead I learned that people were unwilling to make the token gesture of weari

I had hoped that the pandemic might give us a common cause to unite against, and instead I learned that people were unwilling to make the token gesture of wearing a mask and became vaccine deniers (reaching beyond the covid vaccines now). I did not have much hope before then, but I lost essentially all of it after that.