I certainly hope it isn't leading to a society where papers are checked and masks are always required. Although I am vaccinated, I feel vaccine mandates constit

I certainly hope it isn't leading to a society where papers are checked and masks are always required. Although I am vaccinated, I feel vaccine mandates constitute a breach of bodily autonomy and medical privacy. As for masks - I find them stifling in more ways than one - it is hard to breathe, it fogs up glasses, it causes me to feel overheated, and it really diminishes human connection and exchange of emotions. I think the impact of masks on developing children who need natural socialization will be drastic and dangerous. So my take is that at some point, we just need to deal with it as a background event and move on. The infection fatality rate for COVID is incredibly low, particularly for those under 50. It is irrational to worry about it to the extent we are, since we don't typically worry about such rare possibilities. I am also betting that phenomenon like "long COVID" will either be found to be other conflating factors, or found to be a phenomenon associated with any illness. It's just that we're so focused on COVID as an entire species, that we're spotting all the little things we would normally ignore.