For these people, life is about nothing but the avoidance of death.

Virtually everything you've looked forward to has been canceled, and nobody will tell you when you can have those things back. "When we have a vaccine," comes the raving lunatic's answer.

Nobody was giving you that answer when they were pushing "15 days to flatten the curve." They didn't dare.

Instead, they kept us in our homes for those 15 days, and then 15 days after that, and 15 days after that. Each time they pushed the date back we grew more demoralized, more resigned to a barren life without "large gatherings" – i.e., everything that makes life fun – and "virtual" events over Zoom.