But this kind of rhetoric is exactly what I find concerning. The arguments I've seen on this issue seem to be driven by soaring rhetoric about finishing the job and trust for the science and respect for the dead, rather than a practical analysis of the risks and tradeoffs we face today. It seems to me that a lot of Americans have adopted the heuristic that all good Covid news is a trick to get people to "half-ass it", and see relentless negativity as the only responsible posture. (This is an observable trend in international comparison of news coverage: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/24/briefing/boulder-shooting...)