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> * WFH and quarantine continues until the summer Amusing just how continuously shortsighted we are about this whole thing. I remember being sent some in 2020

> * WFH and quarantine continues until the summer Amusing just how continuously shortsighted we are about this whole thing. I remember being sent some in 2020 thinking "oh, just WFM for two weeks". Here we are, two years later. Never could have imagined.

fivea 5y ago
> Here we are, two years later. Never could have imagined. I have to agree, that was very disheartening. Nevertheless, the writing was on the wall right on the first week of the very first lockdown, when so many people made it their point to not only reject complying with lockdowns and any form of basic personal higiene and health precautions but also be very militant and contrarian about violating public health guidelines. It's hard to contain an epidemic when a sizeable part of the population is outright militant in contributing to it's spread.
- dustintrex 5y ago
  Alas, it has become quite clear that whether the pandemic will continue or not has virtually zero correlation to what a certain segment of the US electorate does or does not do.
  - Handytinge 5y ago
    Hopefully it was always clear that a global pandemic was never going to be driven one way or another by a segment of the US...
willis936 5y ago
I remember making predictions in early Summer 2020 that the pandemic would last until the Winter. My friends and coworkers thought I was nuts.
bsenftner 5y ago
When lockdown started, I said in a company meeting that there was no way the general public will handle a lockdown, it will fail, and 3 years from now (it was Feb 2020 at the time) we will simply give up as a society and start to just live with a partially ignored and highly dangerous fatal airborne virus. I was optimistic, it looks like society is giving up at the 2 year point. The pandemic is as bad if not worse than the beginning, and yet what are we doing? We're relaxing everything... Everyone at my company said I was depressingly stupid to think that. When I quit last spring, I mentioned to them that I was right and they were stupid.

fivea 5y ago

> Here we are, two years later. Never could have imagined. I have to agree, that was very disheartening. Nevertheless, the writing was on the wall right on the first week of the very first lockdown, when so many people made it their point to not only reject complying with lockdowns and any form of basic personal higiene and health precautions but also be very militant and contrarian about violating public health guidelines. It's hard to contain an epidemic when a sizeable part of the population is outright militant in contributing to it's spread.

dustintrex 5y ago
Alas, it has become quite clear that whether the pandemic will continue or not has virtually zero correlation to what a certain segment of the US electorate does or does not do.
- Handytinge 5y ago
  Hopefully it was always clear that a global pandemic was never going to be driven one way or another by a segment of the US...

willis936 5y ago

I remember making predictions in early Summer 2020 that the pandemic would last until the Winter. My friends and coworkers thought I was nuts.

bsenftner 5y ago

When lockdown started, I said in a company meeting that there was no way the general public will handle a lockdown, it will fail, and 3 years from now (it was Feb 2020 at the time) we will simply give up as a society and start to just live with a partially ignored and highly dangerous fatal airborne virus. I was optimistic, it looks like society is giving up at the 2 year point. The pandemic is as bad if not worse than the beginning, and yet what are we doing? We're relaxing everything... Everyone at my company said I was depressingly stupid to think that. When I quit last spring, I mentioned to them that I was right and they were stupid.