It should not be controversial to say "it is now always raining, and we need to take umbrellas everywhere," but it is and it is across every political tendency. This is the new normal no matter what anyone says, and they'll be forced to confront sooner or later that getting sick is bad, actually, and there are very accessible things to be done about it indeed on an individual level that can grow to institutional and systemic change. The latter will not happen without the former. The world changed in 2020 and we are not changing with it. That is a recipe for disaster.

I get it that’s hard to accept, idk, giving up your (unprotected, so most) of your social life because you wear a respirator and that you will have to do it forever, but for me it ties in with the otherwise completely scientific ML analysis I have of the world.

This is 100% the correct, materialist analysis, yes.

I go outside and if not harassed I get treated like a weird outcast, which I am used to because of my politics, but I really do not see how to enagage with such people.

I don't, not anymore, except maybe to poke holes in their flimsy reasoning to the extent that my mental capacity allows at any one time. Imani Barbarin says that her politics are "the disabled," and that's where I've landed after all of this. To any "leftist," "communist," whatever that tries to tell me they're building the revolution without a mask, I say "good luck, chum" and leave. Their movement is doomed, and eventually they will figure that out or they will die. I am determined to survive either way and no one is going to stop me.