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Does it even matter? Covid is here forever. Doesn't matter if the next variant is "good" or "worse" or "horrible". It's here forever. We cannot continue playing

Does it even matter? Covid is here forever. Doesn't matter if the next variant is "good" or "worse" or "horrible". It's here forever. We cannot continue playing this restriction / mandate game any longer. We have something like a dozen vaccines globally, multiple treatments, etc. We've had 2 years for government's to build healthcare capacity to handle any "surge" we get and it is no longer fair to the public to keep blaming them any time some hospital gets full. It's time to return to actual real normal. Let people make their own risk assessments. Life is very, very short and we just spent 2 years of it acting as if the only point of our existence was to stop the spread of exactly one specific illness to the exclusion of basically everything else. Move on.

baxtr 5y ago
Thanks for expressing how I feel. Winter was always the worst season for me. With Covid it has become unbearable. I’ve lost 50% of my life quality.
- PraetorianGourd 5y ago
  I know how you feel buddy. I have really strict rules for myself around drug and alcohol consumption. For example, if a bottle of Scotch lasts less than 1 week, I am drinking too much and need to cut back etc. I've not broken that rule since I made it, except for this winter and last winter. I was always not a fan of gloomy winters, but this on top of it has made it terrible. I am so over all of the panic and fear. Hang in there!
  - spookthesunset 5y ago
    It’s like society decided to make hysteria and fear a virtue.
    - PraetorianGourd 5y ago
      At least in the West, disease has always been viewed as punishment for vice. Either punishing the sinful and poor (bubonic plague) all the way to punishing for drugs and sex (HIV). Hell the schoolyard rumor when I was a kid was that HIV originated via beastiality (Apple refuses to recognize that word so spelling may be wrong) Today we find the term “gay plague” abhorrent and I wonder if in 30 years we will be equally as shocked and embarrassed of Herman Cain awards etc etc

baxtr 5y ago

Thanks for expressing how I feel. Winter was always the worst season for me. With Covid it has become unbearable. I’ve lost 50% of my life quality.

PraetorianGourd 5y ago
I know how you feel buddy. I have really strict rules for myself around drug and alcohol consumption. For example, if a bottle of Scotch lasts less than 1 week, I am drinking too much and need to cut back etc. I've not broken that rule since I made it, except for this winter and last winter. I was always not a fan of gloomy winters, but this on top of it has made it terrible. I am so over all of the panic and fear. Hang in there!
- spookthesunset 5y ago
  It’s like society decided to make hysteria and fear a virtue.
  - PraetorianGourd 5y ago
    At least in the West, disease has always been viewed as punishment for vice. Either punishing the sinful and poor (bubonic plague) all the way to punishing for drugs and sex (HIV). Hell the schoolyard rumor when I was a kid was that HIV originated via beastiality (Apple refuses to recognize that word so spelling may be wrong) Today we find the term “gay plague” abhorrent and I wonder if in 30 years we will be equally as shocked and embarrassed of Herman Cain awards etc etc