Multiple Connotations of the Word "Sacrifice"

It's been amazing to watch some of the rich people around me huffily put their kids in private schools so they can return to the classroom experience. What an amazing way to use money: angrily put your kids at higher risk of death because the state won't do it for you. I have seen other forms of wealthy death-seeking, like skiing, eating blowfish, doing designer drugs, and flying small private planes, but with those the adrenaline thrill of risk is somewhat the point. With this one, it seems more like a bedrock belief that if you're rich enough, disease won't happen to you. The rich haven't been hit hard yet because they're able to socially distance, and now they don't want to, because the disease doesn't hit rich people. It's stunning.

There is an extremely obnoxious parent group in my town who are screaming at the school district for not being "creative" enough because they haven't entertained suggestions like commandeering several of the town's churches for extra classroom space or discovering a treasure chest full of $6 million. This group intends to petition the governor to make the teachers and staff return to full in-person staffing.

I can't imagine, in a realistic instead of fantasy way, how they picture this would work. Do they think the state is going to nationalize church properties? Do they picture the national guard marching elderly women into classrooms at gunpoint?

The main emotional/intellectual reference I have at this point is various old texts about white colonists in the Americas, Africa, and India. That, and continuous attempts to get rid of homelessness by making it illegal. I want it, and therefore it should be, and is reasonable, and everyone else will have to work it out somehow. I am a friend of the king. I don't think it's exactly the same as thinking other people aren't people, so much as a sense that everyone who wants something different than you is lying out of laziness, which must be met with a stern hand.