We’re just gonna pretend like covid doesn’t exist anymore. Restrictions will lift, news reports will dwindle, cases will slowly stop being tracked and the public will move on. But the virus will still be here.
If our local hospitals are over capacity, and there are no beds available, will we even know? Sure there will be tiktoks or whatever but how are you supposed to know if it’s your hospital?
I think that just not acknowledging it, as opposed to doing nothing but still acknowledging it and providing data, is the most horrific outcome so of course this is what the monkeys paw did when our societies said “I wish I didn’t have to think about COVID anymore”
How are we ever supposed to get “back to normal” now? The world has inexorably and permanently changed for the worse, as always.
Yeah the thing that gets is do we just have hospitals at full capacity from now on? Were not going to build more, are people just gonna get COVID, not go, and die? It seems real bad. Realizing more and more we are never going back to a pre COVID world in a meaningful way.
Right so the safest option will be just hunkering down during historical surge periods which is summer in the south and winter in the north (although with omicron maybe both?)
But at what point do you go from cautious to paranoid? There will be a higher social cost to taking precautions, one that wasn’t there before, not to mention why would you self isolate when there’s no real, actual threat? But without data or reporting how will we ever know?
yeah I have no idea what you can even do as an individual to hunker down, youre going to have to go outside. Honestly im more worried about the other stuff, the accidents that could land me in a hospital with no beds left. The 24 hour wait for ER treatment, seems bad.