Vaccines have already come to market, and the U.S. has just gone through its fastest uptake of a vaccine in history. We are, if reports are to be believed, shortly going to be sold a new therapeutic drug that does wonders for COVID patients, reportedly stopping them from developing a serious or life-threatening illness when they contract the virus.
In the face of that reality, and the reality that the strains on hospital systems are becoming much more the normal strains that we lived with for decades previously, what possible reason could there be for talking about mere “degrees of normality”? By the definition of public health as it existed 18 months ago, the current situation looks like a phenomenal triumph and victory.
But yet, we are nowhere near getting a declaration of victory by public-health officials. Instead they are fooling themselves into more winter lockdowns, longer durations of masks, and impositions such as social distancing. Politicians in Europe are increasingly engaged in an attempt at scapegoating the remaining unvaccinated for policies that politicians imposed.
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