THERE IS NO PANACEA. Stop thinking there’s a panacea! That’s your problem! There are a bunch of things that help, some a little, some a lot, and with 13,000 people dying a week while hospitals get pulverized, they all have to be on the table.
https://twitter.com/transportaaronz/status/1485279657968771078
There’s no easy one-button solution that will make the pandemic go away and allow you to stop thinking or caring about it. Trying to get everyone vaccinated is the best thing we can do but it’s not a magic cure-all for the nation.
This isn’t some movie where the hero scientist comes up with a cure and it resets to The Way Things Are Supposed to Be. Sometimes problems are big and tough and have to be ameliorated with hard sacrifice and even then can’t be fully avoided and may just change what “normal” is.
No one has a cosmic right to their life as it existed in 2015 or 2019 or whenever last felt normal. Things can fly off the rails, for totally unfair reasons, and just keep flying forever, until you’re dead and replaced by a generation that sees the off-the-rails world as normal.
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