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I've been treating the pandemic as mostly over since I got vaccinated. I'm thankful for the vaccines, and I'm definitely not anti-vax or anti-mask, but I've bee

I've been treating the pandemic as mostly over since I got vaccinated. I'm thankful for the vaccines, and I'm definitely not anti-vax or anti-mask, but I've been lax w/ my mask except in Nov when I felt maybe I should wear it until I got the booster as it'd been over 6 months ... I've been dealing w/ depression, PTSD, discontent, anxiety, and more for the past year... as a side-effect of the pandemic and maybe as symptoms of long-covid a year and a half ago ... (not sure on that). ..so the main issues I feel are gone...the lingering stuff -the after math of the protests, the vitriol on both sides, etc...and the world in general... yeah 2019 isn't ever coming back. My biggest concern has been my kids (both under 5...and in preschool)... but not much I can do, if they get it we all get it anyways probably. Again another reason masks don't seem too valuable to me...my kids touch EVERYTHING. In the future I'm still concerned covid could break out into a more deadly strain, or simply a NEW virus becomes pandemic and rinse/repeat all over again. Next time could be 10x more deadly and that'd be horrible...

SideburnsOfDoom 5y ago
> or simply a NEW virus becomes pandemic and rinse/repeat all over again Of course, but that is in the points above: Lessons are being learned (e.g. the importance of air quality), new tech is being developed (e.g. mRNA), and it is hoped that global planning will be better next time; there is obviously work to do there; but no guarantee yet that it will actually happen. The human race did have some luck with COVID-19: it could have been more deadly, and it responded well to rapidly-developed vaccines (at least at first). So it serves as good training. There is no reason to believe that these lessons definitely won't apply to the next virus, so "planning to fight the last war again" is actually a good idea when it comes to this kind of war. e.g. this looks like terrible timing for "governance" and would be unthinkable now: https://www.thenational.scot/news/18515726.covid-19-boris-johnson-binned-pandemic-team-months-crisis/ https://www.thenational.scot/news/18515726.covid-19-boris-jo... e.g. 2, Have a look at this 2019 assessment of pandemic preparedness: UK and USA are top https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/11/countries-preparedness-pandemics https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/11/countries-preparednes... Clearly it didn't work out that way in 2020-2021, both of those countries did very badly indeed. lessons can be learned from this as to what is _really_ needed to be prepared.
- gremlinsinc 5y ago
  > The human race did have some luck with COVID-19: it could have been more deadly, and it responded well to rapidly-developed vaccines (at least at first). So it serves as good training. There is no reason to believe that these lessons definitely won't apply to the next virus, so "planning to fight the last war again" is actually a good idea when it comes to this kind of war. tbh that is a good point. Sure it was a shit show...but imagine the shit show if it was even just 10x deadlier. It was definitely a good 'practice run', for dealing w/ emergencies and it's not like we don't have a huge docket of emergencies coming up in our future w/ climate change and future pandemics... The way we did launch the vaccines is def. admirable and positive, society's acceptance is just frustrating ... it's in the way /r/conspiracy is overrun by people who end up in /r/hermancainawards that has me flabbergasted... but I guess if idiots take themselves out of the game by second-guessing true science...at least a comet isn't headed to earth and collective stupidity will annihilate us all, just themselves and their own personal circles.

SideburnsOfDoom 5y ago

> or simply a NEW virus becomes pandemic and rinse/repeat all over again Of course, but that is in the points above: Lessons are being learned (e.g. the importance of air quality), new tech is being developed (e.g. mRNA), and it is hoped that global planning will be better next time; there is obviously work to do there; but no guarantee yet that it will actually happen. The human race did have some luck with COVID-19: it could have been more deadly, and it responded well to rapidly-developed vaccines (at least at first). So it serves as good training. There is no reason to believe that these lessons definitely won't apply to the next virus, so "planning to fight the last war again" is actually a good idea when it comes to this kind of war. e.g. this looks like terrible timing for "governance" and would be unthinkable now: https://www.thenational.scot/news/18515726.covid-19-boris-johnson-binned-pandemic-team-months-crisis/ https://www.thenational.scot/news/18515726.covid-19-boris-jo... e.g. 2, Have a look at this 2019 assessment of pandemic preparedness: UK and USA are top https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/11/countries-preparedness-pandemics https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/11/countries-preparednes... Clearly it didn't work out that way in 2020-2021, both of those countries did very badly indeed. lessons can be learned from this as to what is _really_ needed to be prepared.

gremlinsinc 5y ago
> The human race did have some luck with COVID-19: it could have been more deadly, and it responded well to rapidly-developed vaccines (at least at first). So it serves as good training. There is no reason to believe that these lessons definitely won't apply to the next virus, so "planning to fight the last war again" is actually a good idea when it comes to this kind of war. tbh that is a good point. Sure it was a shit show...but imagine the shit show if it was even just 10x deadlier. It was definitely a good 'practice run', for dealing w/ emergencies and it's not like we don't have a huge docket of emergencies coming up in our future w/ climate change and future pandemics... The way we did launch the vaccines is def. admirable and positive, society's acceptance is just frustrating ... it's in the way /r/conspiracy is overrun by people who end up in /r/hermancainawards that has me flabbergasted... but I guess if idiots take themselves out of the game by second-guessing true science...at least a comet isn't headed to earth and collective stupidity will annihilate us all, just themselves and their own personal circles.