Not sure if this is allowed here and I mean no disrespect to anyone’s views. However, I am curious how this transition was experienced by folks here.
In March 2020, it was quite taboo to ignore the guidelines in many places, and laws were strictly enforced. Now, the vast majority have essentially returned to “normal life”. Basically a complete 180 in right around 4 years.
Did you see this outcome coming?
Was there a tipping point?
Did your views evolve over time? Or diverge in specific ways?
As someone in the middle of the spectrum, the trajectory the pandemic took (in terms of how serious people took guidelines) seemed somewhat unsurprising and inevitable. Personally, I picked up a couple of good habits like being stringent with hand washing and never going into the office sick (regardless of illness).
Just interested in other peoples perspective on this if you care to share :)
Everyone saw this coming since at least new years eve dec. 2020 when everyone on Chapo expected normo-Os to think COVID would disappear when the new year started and the vaccines would come out and everything would turn to normal.
Which actually didn't happen in 2021 but it did in 2022. And everyone gave up.
Around these parts people went back to normal around July 2020.
Didn't it kinda go in a sinusoidal pattern where people ignored it in Summer 2020 because there was a dip, then hospitals started filling up so they took it seriously until Biden said COVID was officially over?
In rural Midwest America it followed more of a y=cot(x/2) sorta thing.
That's what I remember.