The COVID-19 pandemic

[danbrotherston]

The "leave responsibility for isolation to those at risk to" is not a real solution.

It's a lie people tell themselves in order to justify their behaviour.

But I digress. We are literally lifting restrictions right now. I think a lot of people think that "ending COVID restrictions" means more, stop reminding me that COVID exists, and less legal restrictions on occupancy (I mean, the fire code existed before the pandemic, so even that isn't new).

FWIW, I think we can get to a state where most restrictions are lifted, but masking is required in some contexts, (hospitals, drs offices, maybe winter on buses/grocery), ventilation is improved everywhere, and vaccines are mandatory.

I.e., we'll get to a place very similar to what we had before the pandemic, (mandatory vaccines are nothing new) but things will be a little better, and a little safer, not just from COVID but from all respiratory viruses and also from indoor air pollution.

But I don't think that's what the "end COVID" people want, they want a world functionally and tonally identical to before...they don't even want to hear the word COVID. And ultimately, like all opposition to change as a concept, it's wishing for a unicorn.