I mean, the rate at which people are dying and becoming disabled due to covid can't be sustainable, can it? This country was running on fumes to begin with. Surely a country with an infamously terrible healthcare system, an economy that runs everything with as little margin for error as possible, and a government that has lost its ability to respond to any major disaster that can't be shot at cannot withstand this kind of catastrophe? What do you think things are going to look like five years from now?
Most people are willing to eat the losses. If in two weeks Omicron rates drop (because everyone has gotten it by then) the country will keep plugging along. Things will get worse, especially public services, but you should never underestimate the American public's ability to discard human life.
Ngl I think the omicron rates will drop faster due to tests and testing capacity getting exhausted
:galaxy-brain: If you make testing kits scarce and laugh in the face of people asking for them to be distributed freely, you can cite declining rates of cases.