Kek! This is the reaction of most entry level scientists who go into that line of research work.

It's fun until the novelty wears off. Then it slowly becomes cumbersome, & for most people a psychologically unsustainable way of living life. Or it just becomes routine, & for those that have the patience to deal with it, they just do. But most people are like cats. After a few years of doing this cumbersome process every single day, anytime they step into their workplace, they want to move on & do something else with more freedom in the little things. It takes a certain level of grit, patience, & stubborn will to achieve a goal to not get bogged down by it. I can't say anything about military operations that require suiting up, but I imagine much of it is the same.

I don't mind doing it for a finite project, or if I have control over how often & when I gotta suit up, but if I was just some corporation's lab guinea pig & had to do this with no real end in sight at the whims of my overlords, I'd probably quit after a few years, too. I could probably do it if I really had to or my survival depended on it; I just wouldn't exactly be happy to get up & go to work every day. Those outfits are uncomfortable. Of all the potentially dangerous things you deal with in them, sometimes the worst is getting an itch & not being able to scratch it alllllll damn day, lol.

And that's just in the workplace.

Now imagine if you had to do that every time you left your house. Then imagine having to convert your house into a closed system with its own filtration system...

The sheep really have no idea. Unless the military secretly has some sort of neutralizing compounds they could dispatch in the event of an actual widespread & uncontrolled pandemic or a biochemical war, only the grittiest of the gritty (or the elite who have/can buy access to existing closed system facilities) would survive that type of apocalypse to see its actual end.

But a genuine thumbs up to all those who dare try & survive it.

Just that COVID isn't it!