"Go away" "Fight to return to normal" How many realize COVID-19 is endemic, will continue to mutate and will be with us for the foreseeable future? Those amo

"Go away" "Fight to return to normal" How many realize COVID-19 is endemic, will continue to mutate and will be with us for the foreseeable future? Those among us, who remain vulnerable either matter, or they do not, which is it? "We" is who exactly? Does the "we" body of people include people living (very carefully) with immunodeficiency, those without access to doctors, no insurance, elderly, survivors of the dead? How many are aware pandemics and the medicine, science, various other impacts play out on multi year timelines? When is the last time nature abided by human preferences? Please, no response is needed to the above, just rhetorical questions as food for thought. Frankly, politicizing COVID-19, as well as denying the reality of it did us and the world a lot of harm. I do not disagree with you on the basic idea of politicians leveraging any shiny thing to avoid hard legislation long overdue. I do not find conflating that with COVID-19 realities all that useful. COVID-19 is still novel. There is a ton we do not know and we have yet to get the data we need to proceed in a more definitive way, and for sure lack what is needed to basically ignore it per normal. We are going to get some of that data the hard way as some parts of the world, and the US are choosing to behave as if it has "gone away." Finally, "we" absolutely did not do what was needed and a lot of people died, who did not have to die. The numbers, variant strains and their potential impacts remain with us and are at levels well above those that triggered (our poor) actions in the first place. The only real difference I can see is more nebulous publishing of that information coupled with more aggressive signaling it is all OK now. We lack the data needed to make that assessment. We also lack the data to fully understand what "normal" will end up looking like too. It won't look like it did before. It could look similar, depending on how nature plays out and how good both our understanding and response to said understanding actually is. The US track record is poor so far.