Excellent essay. Thank you. We need to always remember that all the victims, except the children, were volunteers. The parents of the injured children volunteered. They were driven by fear, incited by malevolent actors in the government and industry. But fear is always driven by ignorance, and our society has systematically constructed an ignorant population by several generations of corrupt education systems, and increased technological support that no longer requires personal competence or self reliance. The real criminals are us -- we who tolerated the vicious assault on our health, our wealth, and our freedom allowed it to explode life as we knew it. Some of us complained, developing safe spaces for organized whining on virtual platforms like substack. Bur few acted. None of the rare, meager acts of resistance mattered.

Correction of this travesty will require stern prosecutions. But that won't happen as long as we continue to politely whine. The tyrants have defeated us, and they expect to continue. Until we convince a lot of apathetic bystanders to retake the streets, the only change we can expect is for the worse.