First: thank you for replying, and not just downvoting. > The feeling is that people want to get back to normal, but understand that most of the regulations we

First: thank you for replying, and not just downvoting. > The feeling is that people want to get back to normal, but understand that most of the regulations were necessary given the seriousness of the pandemic. It is highly debatable that lockdowns ever were, or currently are, either necessary or effective. > State Governments that are in charge of pandemic restrictions have demonstrated little desire to maintain restrictions longer than was sensible given the virus. The US is in the thirty-second week of "two weeks to stop the spread". Credibility went right out the window when the powers-that-be decreed weddings and funerals as too risky, but protests and riots as totally fine. Not to mention the long list of politicians whose personal lives seem to be an exception from the rules they have imposed on others. > There's no legitimate or logical reason to maintain it once the pandemic is over. I remember airports before 9/11. Hell, I remember the US before 9/11. The ironically-named Patriot Act represented a massive seizure of power and a wholesale trampling of American civil rights. None of the airport security measures introduced were necessary or effective, and yet they continue to this day. Since 9/11, the United States has been at war in the Middle East for twenty years, squandering trillions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of innocent lives to achieve... nothing. This was neither legitimate nor logical. But it did make a bunch of politicians and their friends very powerful and very wealthy. I also remember, at the time, the moral frenzy that enveloped the nation after the fall of the twin towers. Things now feel the same from where I sit.