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.

  • Mother [any]
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    3 years ago

    We still have case data… for now. I fully expect that reporting infrastructure to be dismantled though as our leadership has no foresight (if they did they wouldn’t be lifting mask mandates)

    • sappho [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      It's a risky move to lift mandates right as BA.1 is dying down and cases of BA.2 are cropping up nationwide. I don't really understand the timing unless they know for sure that BA.2 won't cause another wave, or if the idea is to get us innoculated to a total lack of mitigation efforts at a high point of infections.