[marvin]

No one has overreacted, unless you accept an outcome that both leads to improvised individual social distancing and the even worse worse economic devastation that follows.

This was uncertain to most people last year, but now we’ve seen so many examples that it really shouldn’t be so controversial any longer. But if it wasn’t, we wouldn’t be discussing it.

The covid virus is evolved to fit exactly into the niche of societal behavior where it will be a big fucking problem but not so bad that it’s immediately obvious to enough people.