[CharlieDigital]

> the fact that now that everybody seems to have finally agreed that « live with it » was the most sensible response

Your hindsight is missing a lot of nuance.

In the first few months, there was a fog of war. How transmissable is it? How deadly? What is the most effective course of treatment? How does the disease affect our internal systems?

In hindsight, we now know the facts.

We also developed a vaccine which reduces the severity of symptoms if not outright prevents infection in some individuals.

The initial reaction to lock down saved lives. Your own might never have been at risk, but there are many higher risk folks who benefited from the time we bought with lockdowns early on.

Lockdowns now do not make sense. We understand the disease. We have courses of treatment. We have functional vaccines. We have some level of population immunity.

[peyton]

I’m not sure what you’re saying is true. We spent way too much money not to take a very, very close look at what was achieved. I don’t see that happening.