[throwaway3699]

FWIW I'm definitely part of the group making far more money working from home (in a far cheaper area too), but I'd happily give that up for my freedom back. I've been in a state of existential dread since the first day of lockdown.

> The consequences of this are going to be felt for years after this, if not decades. We likely won’t even remember the virus in 5-7 years, but we’ll still be living under the system it ushered in.

Economically, for sure. From a human rights perspective I can't see us continuing for much longer without large scale riots, like we saw earlier this year but directly focused on the lockdown.

One chilling effect from all this is when something worse than Covid inevitably comes about, reasonable countermeasures are going to be completely ignored.