However, the infection count has skyrocketed (even amongst the vaccinated), and the incidence of long-term negative health consequences for those infected is roughly the same for vaccinated and unvaccinated, months post recovery of initial infection.
There's a huge negative impact here that society has not yet realized.
And even then you'd have to consider the serious long-term health affects that a multi-year hard lockdown would have on people.
Applies to the writer too. Blue collar workers aren't getting paid enough, they have to go to work, pay for their rents and such. And yes they get Covid. Not everyone is a fancy writer who can sit at home self-isolating for months or years and work from there. Poor people never have, never had a choice, you either lose your home, your job or you get Covid and get with it. That's it
Evidence? The "long-term consequences" of an ICU stay are nothing to sneeze at.