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.

    • cawsby [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      I worked from home pre-covid but we have a satellite office we are allowed to use with a few hot desks.

      Our regional boss was great during the pandemic; however, he now wants everyone to come in at least once a month to "familiarize" ourselves with our co-workers. I don't work with anyone that is local to my area. Why the fuck should I go in to meet randos who live near by me who I don't even interact with at work?

      This "return to normal" bullshit is going to be an epic disaster when people who had been taking COVID seriously stop doing so because of this manufactured consent going on that the pandemic is somehow over during its most infectious phase ever.

      • BigLadKarlLiebknecht [he/him, comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        Same thing here. My work is allowing people to work from home, but my manager wants us to meet up every 2 weeks in the office for “connection” purposes. It is of course, “entirely optional”, but in the sense that if I didn’t go, I’d be the only one not going and would inevitably be criticized for not doing enough to “connect” with my colleagues.

        I don’t want to connect with my colleagues anyway. They all love Bitcoin and Elon Musk, and act awkwardly shocked when I mention that I’m worried for my disabled daughter’s health due to Omicron’s higher severity in young children. ”It’s milder in children though, right? And it’s mild to begin with anyway, I’m sure it will be fine”. :cringe:

    • Tapirs10 [undecided,she/her]
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      3 years ago

      Aztecs sacrificing people to make the sun go up? "Wow, so primitive" Capitalists sacrificing people to make line go up? "Return to normal"