[macintux]

Consider this: influenza almost disappeared due to the lockdowns and other measures we took.

Yet 3000 people in the U.S. are dying each day from COVID.

Does that not indicate that this virus is a particularly nasty virus worthy of special measures? That it’s still spreading widely when the flu can’t?

[AndrewUnmuted]

I have considered it for an entire year. And my response to that is: who cares?

People are still dying from respiratory viruses at a totally unacceptable rate. We're a very sick culture who cannot handle a respiratory illness without freaking-the-fuck out.

We have way bigger problems than COVID-19, which is nothing more than a symptom of those problems.