Like everything in life these days, it's all so bloody binary isn't it? You're either for us or against us, you either want grannies dying in the street or you want lockdown indefinitely. Nuance and subtlety is dead, it seems.
However I'll try. Most people will put up with mask wearing in shops, for the greater good. Most people will adhere to a sensible level of social distancing and adjustments, for the greater good. Most people are more than willing to be more scrupulous about hygiene for the greater good.
However what an increasing number of people are not prepared to do is stick to arbitrary, restrictive rules which drastically and negatively affect their and their families' wellbeing indefinitely. They are certainly not prepared to live like we were in March and April, indefinitely when they can see that deaths and hospitalizations from Covid are so low now. And when they can see that all those things they were told would cause second waves, spikes, thousands of deaths etc have manifestly not happened
They're especially not prepared to be nagged, hectored, shamed and berated as being "selfish", simply because they want to regain some semblance of normality for themselves and their families, by someone on MN who they have never even met (and quite frankly, if you want people to care about you, you need to be a little, well, nicer. You know, try displaying some of that empathy you speak of.)
No. Enough.