on a tangent: this is basically exactly 2 years (13th of march) after the whole world went in lockdown the first time. I've been on the cautious side all this

on a tangent: this is basically exactly 2 years (13th of march) after the whole world went in lockdown the first time. I've been on the cautious side all this time (especially compared to US opinions) but the cat is out of the bag, we can't put it back in. I'm all for mitigation and vaccine drives but the time of full-on lockdowns should be over; Omicron (and whatever comes next) is just too contagious to eradicate completely. (one exception: if it is foreseeable that hospitals cannot cope, then lockdowns should come in place. But not before.)