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Why do you talk about the pandemic in past tense? The pandemic is still going on. If QR code menus don’t make sense now, then they never made sense.

sojournerc 3y ago
I'd say it is now endemic, and the emergency is over.
- School-Cotton 3y ago
  Why? What’s the difference between now and 2021, other than the fact that most people decided to stop caring?
  - sojournerc 3y ago
    Is the Spanish flu still an emergency because a related strain still exists? Covid still exists, but most everybody has natural or induced immunity, and it just isn't as severe (new strains) or as much of an unknown. It's not going away. If you want to live in a state of emergency in perpetuity, go for it, just don't expect the world to not move on.
    - School-Cotton 3y ago
      > Covid still exists, but most everybody has natural or induced immunity That’s why I compared to 2021, not 2020. In 2021 anyone who wanted a vaccine could get one. > it just isn't as severe (new strains) AFAIK this is still unproven, do you have a source? > If you want to live in a state of emergency in perpetuity, go for it I don’t, and never did. You’ve understood my point exactly backwards. I don’t think QR code menus make sense, and, along with a lot of other pandemic theatre, I don’t think they ever made sense, as evidenced by the fact that once people decided to stop using them, nothing catastrophic happened, despite the fact that the state of the pandemic is not meaningfully different from 2021.
      - wkat4242 3y ago
        Yeah if anything we could have stopped caring when the South African variant came out. That was really the turning point and many countries kept ignoring the evidence of how mild it was.
telotortium 3y ago
They also never made sense after May 2020 at the latest, when it was clear to the well-informed that surface spread was not a significant vector (nor were droplets, only aerosols).
- School-Cotton 3y ago
  You are correct.

sojournerc 3y ago

I'd say it is now endemic, and the emergency is over.

School-Cotton 3y ago
Why? What’s the difference between now and 2021, other than the fact that most people decided to stop caring?
- sojournerc 3y ago
  Is the Spanish flu still an emergency because a related strain still exists? Covid still exists, but most everybody has natural or induced immunity, and it just isn't as severe (new strains) or as much of an unknown. It's not going away. If you want to live in a state of emergency in perpetuity, go for it, just don't expect the world to not move on.
  - School-Cotton 3y ago
    > Covid still exists, but most everybody has natural or induced immunity That’s why I compared to 2021, not 2020. In 2021 anyone who wanted a vaccine could get one. > it just isn't as severe (new strains) AFAIK this is still unproven, do you have a source? > If you want to live in a state of emergency in perpetuity, go for it I don’t, and never did. You’ve understood my point exactly backwards. I don’t think QR code menus make sense, and, along with a lot of other pandemic theatre, I don’t think they ever made sense, as evidenced by the fact that once people decided to stop using them, nothing catastrophic happened, despite the fact that the state of the pandemic is not meaningfully different from 2021.
    - wkat4242 3y ago
      Yeah if anything we could have stopped caring when the South African variant came out. That was really the turning point and many countries kept ignoring the evidence of how mild it was.

telotortium 3y ago

They also never made sense after May 2020 at the latest, when it was clear to the well-informed that surface spread was not a significant vector (nor were droplets, only aerosols).

School-Cotton 3y ago
You are correct.