It’s Ok To Be Mad At People Who Are Prolonging The Pandemic

You cancelled Christmas. You had a Zoom Thanksgiving. But it feels like it doesn’t matter because some dingus had a no-mask NYE rager.

Today as folks with office-type jobs slid back into their home office chairs, facing a tidal wave of office emails and arbitrary office deadlines, many probably paused to consider the fact that they were still working from home. Their kids got up for “school” in whatever way that manifests — for littles with limited internet access or parents who can’t or aren’t involved in their education, the morning probably wasn’t a lot different than the winter break.

For shift workers, medical care providers, home health care workers, transit operators, and so many others, there’s little distinction between “holidays” and “every other day of the week.” They pulled on their masks again today and did what they do, what they’ve been doing.

Regardless of what we do to make money, most of us probably thought that, by now — January of 2021 — we’d be getting on buses and going into the city. Or we’d be experiencing regular morning and lunch rushes at the cafe. We thought that today would be like so many other Mondays and that it would flow with the current of a grinding 9-to-5 following a…