yknow you go out in the world and nobody ever mentions the leading cause of death that did not exist four years ago. covid beat out heart disease and cancer and there’s zero political interest in anything but “one vaccine every year that doesn’t keep you from getting it” somehow. thinking about how the white house does contact tracing + on-site rapid testing for all of its events so (as usual) the ruling class is totally isolated from a wave of death and disability sweeping the people they’re at least theoretically elected to represent
