[tremon]

the consensus of many people seems to be that Covid 'is over'

Personally, I'll reserve my judgement on that until we're past the normal autumn flu/cold wave. Cases declined last year in the summer too.

[itronitron]

I agree. Anecdotally, a friend of mine's workplace which canceled WFH a few months ago has had many people out sick with Covid over the past three weeks (more than the entire previous year), but luckily none have them have needed to be hospitalized.

[pempem]

The problem gets further pushed to the individual to navigate, without any real support

[sudosysgen]

We had almost the same statistic here.

[GekkePrutser]

Except this year severe cases were already manageable by the health system in the middle of winter. That's the difference.