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There is nothing to adapt to. We need to just live with this thing. These restrictions and non stop panic are not sustainable human practices. We need to accept

There is nothing to adapt to. We need to just live with this thing. These restrictions and non stop panic are not sustainable human practices. We need to accept covid is here to stay and return back to pre-pandemic 2019 normal. Full stop. There is vastly more problems in the world than exactly one very specific disease. People have become hypersensitive to COVID-19 and we are monitoring it to a level never seen before in human history. I have little doubt if we tracked other viruses the same we we are tracking this one, there would be just as many fear inducing variants and oddities. I see this same behavior with server monitoring. If your log levels are too high, you lose the signal in the noise. We have our covid logs cranked up to verbose... most of what we see is just noise.

cblconfederate 6y ago
We can also adapt to one-trick politicians
objectivetruth 6y ago
> People have become hypersensitive to COVID-19 and we are monitoring it to a level never seen before in human history. That's because the last time a novel virus appeared on the scene and killed millions of people, we didn't have DNA and RNA profiling technologies and thousands of epidemiologists and thousands of biotechnology labs around the world able to collaborate instantly. > There is vastly more problems in the world than exactly one very specific disease. Nobody should argue with you on that! Thankfully, lots of people kept working on these other problems over the past year, thanks to humanity's capacity to deal with more than one global issue at a time. > We need to accept covid is here to stay and return back to pre-pandemic 2019 normal. Well, here in the US at least, there are nearly 600,000 less people so things won't ever be back to how they were in 2019. The families of all of those dead people can't just "return back" and pretend that Uncle Ted didn't choke to death, alone, in an ICU last year. The millions of lost jobs, ruined companies, and devastated households won't just bounce back by saying "OK, go back to 'normal' now!" The plan that you're pushing might have been accepted as brutal but realistic and implemented 11 months ago... and the US would have lost a couple of million folks instead of 560,000. Thankfully, empathy won out over sociopathy and we worked on mitigation and vaccine development. The fastest way to get back to anything approaching "normal" is to vaccinate everybody and drive the disease out of circulation. Like we did with polio and smallpox. And it's important to study and monitor the virus and the vaccine so we can continue that process effectively and hopefully less people die.

cblconfederate 6y ago

We can also adapt to one-trick politicians

objectivetruth 6y ago

> People have become hypersensitive to COVID-19 and we are monitoring it to a level never seen before in human history. That's because the last time a novel virus appeared on the scene and killed millions of people, we didn't have DNA and RNA profiling technologies and thousands of epidemiologists and thousands of biotechnology labs around the world able to collaborate instantly. > There is vastly more problems in the world than exactly one very specific disease. Nobody should argue with you on that! Thankfully, lots of people kept working on these other problems over the past year, thanks to humanity's capacity to deal with more than one global issue at a time. > We need to accept covid is here to stay and return back to pre-pandemic 2019 normal. Well, here in the US at least, there are nearly 600,000 less people so things won't ever be back to how they were in 2019. The families of all of those dead people can't just "return back" and pretend that Uncle Ted didn't choke to death, alone, in an ICU last year. The millions of lost jobs, ruined companies, and devastated households won't just bounce back by saying "OK, go back to 'normal' now!" The plan that you're pushing might have been accepted as brutal but realistic and implemented 11 months ago... and the US would have lost a couple of million folks instead of 560,000. Thankfully, empathy won out over sociopathy and we worked on mitigation and vaccine development. The fastest way to get back to anything approaching "normal" is to vaccinate everybody and drive the disease out of circulation. Like we did with polio and smallpox. And it's important to study and monitor the virus and the vaccine so we can continue that process effectively and hopefully less people die.