> with cases rising, and hospitalizations and deaths holding steady at low levels. That... seems to confirm the idea that it's no longer a crisis? Again, the

> with cases rising, and hospitalizations and deaths holding steady at low levels. That... seems to confirm the idea that it's no longer a crisis? Again, the crisis is in the hospital systems. Flattening the curve was all about controlling infection rates in order to ensure the systems continue to function. COVID zero and crushing the curve was never a public health goal in North America. If you accept that, then the reality is COVID is here to stay. That much is a given. So if we've reached the point of mostly decoupling hospital/ICU/death rates from case rates (or at least dramatically lowering the frequency with which a COVID case escalates to hospitalization/ICU/death) through a mix of vaccines, antivirals, and other measures, then it seems perfectly reasonable to conclude that the crisis has past. And I say all that as someone who still compulsively wears a mask in a lot of circumstances. Is there something in that analysis that I'm missing?