I personally think heroes are more common than most people think — they’re more likely to say things like “I was just doing my job,” rather than things like “I feared for my life” and making veiled threats of suing the President for defamation within the warm embrace of a Tucker Carlson interview.
The burden that our system placed upon health care professionals over the past year and a half is unprecedented. I’m not going to rule out that COVID nurses were heroes. (Labeling them “heroes” however, to the exclusion of actually lobbying for better pay and working conditions for them, is hypocritical.)
But am I going to rule out the idea that Rittenhouse was a hero? Yep.