Animals carry lots of nasty diseases, Ebola, rabies, SARS, MERS, etc., yet these are under control in large parts of the world, thanks to basic hygiene. If we w

Animals carry lots of nasty diseases, Ebola, rabies, SARS, MERS, etc., yet these are under control in large parts of the world, thanks to basic hygiene. If we were willing to follow e.g. New Zealand's example, committing to actually applying what we have learned about containing local outbreaks, maybe we couldn't eradicate SARS-CoV-2 and its variants, but we could do so much better at controlling it, allowing us to largely go back to normality.