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Covid appears to be “done” in the UK. Not that the virus is gone, just that there now seems to be widespread acceptance of its health impact, and a strong desir
by jl6 5y ago
Covid appears to be “done” in the UK. Not that the virus is gone, just that there now seems to be widespread acceptance of its health impact, and a strong desire to move on without any restrictions on normal life.
- Reason077 5y agoMy theory is that there can be only one crisis at a time in this country. Brexit gave way to Covid, and for 18 months or so that was the only story in the news. But now, there’s a frigging war going on in Europe, so Covid might as well not exist anymore.
- core-utility 5y agoAdd the US to the list of "only one crisis".
- brigandish 5y agoCan be only one and must be at least one would seem to describe the news very well.
- kylehotchkiss 5y agoBefore the war, multiple effective vaccines were invented and distributed, promising medications for those sick are distributing, and we have a better understanding of the types of events that cause mass infection (conferences of course!) and a realization that aviation was not the super spreader event that many other things were. We even have increasingly better pictures of vaccine cadence (which I hope just become annual soon!). Covid as a crisis needed to end, and Ukraine has served as an odd segue out of it.
- Overtonwindow 5y agoPerhaps media and politicians have decided they’ve gotten enough power and politics out of this crisis, and now it’s OK to move onto the next one.