Let’s really cement the goalposts where they are so this endless march of “well vaccine doesn’t mean harmless” and “well antivirals aren’t perfect” to “well endemic doesn’t mean we can relax”… it is insane.
I really don't understand what point you tried to make. There is no goalpost being moved. We have a disease that so far, according to official statistics that are chronically underreported and in some cases blatantly whitewashed, has killed over 5 million people throughout the world. For the past year we benefitted from a better-than-nothing set of vaccines that took the edge out of the disease, but whose effectiveness was further reduced by subsequent variants combined with militant opposition even to basic higiene. Hell, each and every single time I took a jab, I received a flier informing me if the need to wash hands frequently, practice social distancing, wear facemasks in public, and avoid gatherings.
What exactly do you believe has changed, exactly?
If anything, only vaccine uptake has changed, and thankly for the better in spite of this moronic militant opposition. Yet, even if that resulted in a lower death rate, we still have health services completely overwhelmed and unable to cope. Even the US has been breaking death count records.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/covid-cases.html
Please do tell me, what exactly do you believe has changed?
- March 2020: Flatten the curve, stay-home orders until we can get enough PPE to medical staff. Don’t worry about masks doctors need them and y’all wear them wrong probably.
- April 2020: Keep hunkering down as we get contact tracing and those contract tracing apps
- May 2020: Lol jk masks work you should all wear masks. Once there is a vaccine we can go back to normal.
- Summer 2020: lots of hedging, students are probably doing fine with remote. Kids like social media anyway so they will be alright
Fall 2020: The curve was flat all summer but not flat enough and now it’s going up again. Lockdown!
Winter 21: Vaccines are here! Ticket to normality!
Spring 21: seriously we promise the vaccines are so good, cdc even said so. Mask off. Here comes herd immunity
Summer 21: actually jk. Vaccines are good but delta! Mask on, Future.
Fall 21: Omicron time! Back to fear, and maybe a booster? We will see the CDC can’t decide.
Winter 21: Oh yeah, should have gotten that booster. Also the cloth masks don’t really work, gotta wear N95! But it’s fine, this variant will make the disease endemic
Now: Endemic doesn’t mean safe dude, get your mask on, live in fear. We might need to close schools again.
Oh you are right, nothing has changed really between today and two years ago, except for all the things they said between those two points!
If you're vaccinated, then it really is "it's just a flu, bro." Time to live life and end this idiotic theater. Vaccines are great. Take the win.
We have started to see a political push of this idea that the same disease that killed well over 5million people is now something totally harmless that poses no danger whatsoever.
Some countries, like Spain, now have their government's propaganda machine forcing this absurd concept that reads something like "cold-ification of COVID", where it's danger is downplayed against the advice and best judgement of health officials and experts, just to suit their political agenda.
I think the world is mad now personally but the majority seems happy with it. Lol
