He would be doing himself a massive political favor too, but he can’t do it.
The mindset that people can forever avoid getting Covid-19 if they just do the right things has become too central to how they talk about the virus despite obviously being wrong
The mindset that people can forever avoid getting Covid-19 if they just do the right things has become too central to how they talk about the virus despite obviously being wrong
https://twitter.com/weshartline/status/1472419030866833411
Reality is that this virus is too transmittable to avoid it. The goal was to buy ourselves enough time to develop vaccines and effective treatments that make outcomes comparable to other viruses we already deal with. That’s exactly what happened, but too many never accepted it.
Instead, they spent too long pretending that just doing the right things will mean you never get Covid. It was never true or realistic. Now we have to learn to live with Covid-19. The sooner people, especially policy makers, accept that, the better off we will all be.
That doesn’t mean we don’t protect the vulnerable and don’t do what we can to continue lowering risk of severe illness/death, but we can’t use avoiding Covid-19 cases as the standard for things going right. It’s a standard we could never meet.
Policy makers aren’t adjusting. Instead they are just moving the goal posts and it’s rightly frustrating people because there is no end-goal here. We will keep improving treatments and most are protected, but nothing will change that ppl will get Covid-19 and many more than once.
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