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  And it's not just the people deciding they don't care anymore. The lockdowns have almost all ended, the travel bans have lifted, the mask laws have loosened. People stopped isolating and masking because they don't have to anymore. 
  Then there's our mental capacity. 2020 took a toll on most, if not all of us, one way or another. The stress was huge. But we can't live in such stress too long. We just wouldn't make it. So we get used to the situation, and stop stressing that much. 
  Take a war for example. I can't speak about WW2, but I can speak about the current war in Ukraine. It depends on where you live, but I'm in Poland and housed and talked with Ukrainians and I've heard at least some anecdotal information. At first, everyone was terrified. Some managed to leave and run to safety. But the people who stayed and continued to live under the attacks, they can't just spend 24/7 in their basements. They have to keep going to work if they can, they have to go out to buy food, medicine etc. And sure they're all still scared, and they're all still in constant danger. But they have to live with it, and can't take all the safety precautions forever.
context: What do you expect people to do? You're not going to mandate that employers give people sick leave, or indeed any paid leave at all; you're not going to cover any expenses for people who can't work, you're not going to give people healthcare. You're not going to mandate businesses enforce social distancing or anything like that. When you say "take precautions and avoid close contact" you mean "... except for sitting in a crowded office for 50hrs/week". >
  
  I got COVID last year. Wore a mask constantly but none of my coworkers did. Zero social distancing. I was required to not be at work for two weeks. And I had to use my PTO. So because I had to go to work in person, was the only one wearing a mask and my mouth breathing coworkers didn't care anyway I got sick and had little time off last year other than being told to stay at home. Gee can't imagine why people are burnt out. >
  
  All my PTO this year went to covid and then the flu a few months later.
  No vacation for me. >
  
  Will increasing the price of the vaccine from $0 to $140 be helpful? >
  
  I was just about to say, doesn’t seem like any of these pharmaceutical manufacturers are considering Americans safety a priority with the 400% increase either. >
  
  They never were. >
  
  I hate to say it but this deep into the pandemic it's going to take 100,000's of deaths very quickly to even get an iota of the publics attention again. >
  
  I'm confused about why this is news... "People are not taking this seriously" was pretty clear at the start of this pandemic. >
  
  It's interesting. Of course we are all aware of the people who never took it seriously but lets not forget that their were many of us who took it very seriously. 
  We obeyed the lockdown(s), we spent Christmas alone, we worse masks, we did a lot. 
  It got the point where the same amount of people that died during 9/11 were dying each day of Covid. I think now most people don't really care now even if that many were dying a day.