A bizarre thing that just occurred to me is because of the Russia news, Covid response is effectively over now. We have completely stopped talking about it, and when we’re done with the Russia stuff, we are not going to start talking about it again.
Basically everything is already open and mask mandates at this point are essentially private business dress codes, so the only thing that was keeping any semblance of an actual mitigation strategy afloat with people talking about it, which we won’t do any more.
Not that what is happening in Ukraine isn’t a humanitarian atrocity but it will likely lead to far fewer deaths than have occurred because of Covid, a thing still killing thousands daily and we have all forgotten about in like 24 hours.
I have to disagree with you. If what happened in Ukraine didn't happen for another year - of course the US mask stuff was going to happen anyway and many libs would be very pleased. But I think the war is a huge distraction and now a lot of covid news will be intentionally ignored by the media and polling will show the public cares less and less about the dangers of covid.
The "new normal" becomes normalized even faster.
Hmm yes I see your point.
I don't think we needed the Ukraine distraction to make completely giving up on COVID mediation possible but it could very well accelerate that process
I just checked the 7 day average: ~1,900. I guess it's only matter of time before some medical ghoul on Twitter proclaims that things are getting better and as their evidence of this - they say we have under one thousand deaths a day.
Wow, let's celebrate.