Recipe for a Permanent Pandemic

The Process/Recurring Cycle

Stupidity: engaging in dangerous, high-risk behaviors (self-inflicted) like eating bats

Ignorance: about what Covid is, how it spreads, the reasons for masking and different levels of masking and physical distancing; no sense of facts or reality–the abysmal lack of informedness

Orneriness: a particular, exaggerated form of ignorance in which anti-vaxxers are anti-science, anti-medical and scientific experts/authorities; who could care less about anyone but themselves, and therefore extend the pandemic and its duration by spreading the virus around with zero empathy, sympathy, and feeling even for one’s own family, friends, and kids