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International travel for one, not to mention lots of places keeping bad policy/rules which are going to take years to be removed again in a lot of cases. > But

• didibus 4y ago
  I mean that it's a variable in the equation. Sick leave happens a lot more often as people get COVID once every 6 months and need a few days off. This is an additional strain that continues even as restrictions lift. During the lockdown, the economy boomed, the War in Ukraine from my vantage point seems like a much bigger catalyst. Lockdowns did put a strain on production, but that should catch up again. And what I find is the most difficult to know, is what if we hadn't lockdown, the original COVID and Delta were quite deadly and problematic for unvaccinated, had we all continued as normal we don't know the effect it would have had, could have been better, maybe worse. If another pandemic happens, I hope we don't think what we did for COVID was too much, we lucked out a bit with Covid and it not being as deadly as it could have been, I think the initial lockdowns when people didn't know the virulence yet in some sense were a justifiable decision. You have to make a trade off, and a gamble. People rarely like to gamble with sickness and death. Now I'm with you on lifting restrictions, doesn't seem needed anymore, people self-regulate now based on their own comfort levels. Though I'm a bit still surprised how many deaths are still occuring due to Covid, but finding good information on it has become so hard.