this pandemic would have been SO MUCH WORSE without the public health interventions and now we are trying to like squeak by and propagandize ourselves into thinking we have defeated it and we haven't and if we get an antidote or vaccine we're going to be like "we did it yay us"
that's the point! the we is tribal but poorly defined. reminds me of how fans of a team will often call out individual players or even groups of them and be like *you ruined that game* for *us* it's a very interesting confabulation
