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> Covid has given a lot of terrible, petty, mediocre people a great deal of power, and they won’t be willing to give that up, ever, however often they fail. Th
by logicalmonster 5y ago
> Covid has given a lot of terrible, petty, mediocre people a great deal of power, and they won’t be willing to give that up, ever, however often they fail.
There may or may not be times when additional public safety measures must be taken: whether it’s for terrorism or illness. We can debate about the merits of taking off shoes at airports or wearing masks until the cows come home.
But one thing that’s clear is that these extraordinary measures, whatever is deemed important enough to exist, ought to be temporary and have an expiration date otherwise it likely will never end.
If it is up to the continuously wrong ruling class, they will never give up their powers.
- amanaplanacanal 5y agoA counterexample: When it looked like vaccine uptake was good and cases were going down fast, my state removed all restrictions and mask mandates. Then when delta started sweeping though and hospitals started filling up again, the mask mandates came back. So my experience is the opposite of what you are predicting.
- logicalmonster 5y agoThe cynical part of me doesn't buy that this is anything other than a "2 steps forward, 1 step back" approach to just keep people in line and hopeful that things are changing just around the corner. After telling people that all they had to do was get fully vaccinated, now they're hinting that people will probably just need 1 booster. Once people internally bargain with themselves and buy into that, then the goalposts will get shifted again. "Just 15 days to slow the spread" morphed into whatever this dystopia is, so we'll see. I hope with every fiber of my being that I am laughably wrong.