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.

    • zan [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      Implying there will still be an er in months or years when all the labor is worked into such a sleep deprived, stressed out vulnerable state they all die of covid too.

      Or, preferably, they all just quit. Everyone has a tolerance limit for going into literally hell day in and out and having it consume your while life while all the powers that be just give up and abandon you.

    • TrashGoblin [he/him, they/them]
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      3 years ago

      I'm excited that the very mild case of covid I had a few weeks ago probably left me with increased heart disease risk.