Out of curiosity- how many years of your life are you willing to sacrifice. My understanding is that gay culture generally values youth over most other attributes. Locking yourself away for another half decade may not be in your best interests. 
I suppose the other question would be one around what are acceptable numbers? Would you lock yourself up in Australia with their very low case rate? They are back in lockdown with almost no cases. If "0 Covid deaths" became the goal- would you support it?
I suppose it would be nice to have such trust in the judgement of public officials- but they cannot all be right given the huge disparity in responses.
Yes, I think most people self-limited their interactions. And that worked until government started telling us to just trust them to keep them safe. And now there is no personal responsibility.
Haha that is cute, I only have a few years left to find Mr. Right before my beauty fades, like some anxious spinster in a novel! That's not really how it works with us once you have already gone to seed, now it is more like finding a few bonking buddies or maybe one special naked friend. It is, on the whole, far less fraught.
Re Australia, I think I said before, there is no "right" way to balance risk vs. personal freedom in something like this. I think it's appropriate that each jurisdiction assess its own tolerance. If Australia's population supports their approach, i. e. doesn't vote their eaders out, that's fine. Our per-capita death rate is something like 28 times theirs, so you can't say it isn't effective. Politicians' primary motive is being, and staying, popular, as the disparity in responses shows clearly: people are generally getting the government they ask for, not some universal public-health prescription handed down from on high. In a democracy, political leadership is more about staying in front of the herd, not bending it to your will. Since the recall efforts have almost all failed, I'd say our leaders are doing a good job of that.
I don't know why you are lamenting the death of personal responsibility, no one coerced me to do anything, there were plenty of parties I could have attended and no roadblocks to prevent me from traveling to see my folks. It was mostly just strongly stated advice, which plenty of people flagrantly flouted. You guys act like it was a police state when it was more like the Surgeon General's warning on the tobacco tin, which I routinely ignore, taking personal responsibility for my choices.
Since you bring up gay culture I'd point out that
we have a lot of experience managing a disease far more lethal than the coof. It takes caution, mutual respect, honesty, and keeping up on your medications (which are truly miraculous) both for your own and for others' protection. I honestly don't know whether any fifty-year-old fetuses were involved in their manufacture but I wouldn't be the least bit surprised, God bless the poor innocents.
