What if we can't go back to normal, ever?
What then?
The mouth-breather-anti-vaxxer solution, which it's sounds like the US Supreme Court agrees with, is just let it all hang loose, some will live, some will die, some will be disabled, but freedumb.
I don't like that solution.
I also don't relish the idea of masks forevermore etc, but in the end, it still seems like it's the path that leads to the least loss of human life, human potential.
Cases going up. There is some questions as to whether Omicron will boost immunity, most of the data I've seen says 'not likely'. We also don't know if it will trigger long covid.
So much that we don't know.
And what next? A new variant with higher lethality, as transmissible as Omicron? Despite the claims of right wingers, viruses are not "primed to evolve to be less lethal."
As I toss these things around my brain, usually in the middle of the night, the thought of "what if this is a species ending event?" always hits me. Because. It could be. It probably won't be, but it could. And it could also be that it's the kind of event that changes the course of humanity.
I mean, we now have proof that a high percentage of our fellow people are both profoundly dumb and, for all intents are purposes, sociopaths.
