Thread by @chrislhayes

The Covid discourse is weird and nasty because I think it just absolutely sucks to go through two years of a pandemic. But one thing that feels weird now is that the winning side in the "get back to normal" debate seems very angry about losing the debate even though they won?

I mean things are not back to normal because there's still a very active, highly transmissible, infectious disesase that's getting people sick and killing 2000 people a day. But from a policy perspective, the vast vast majority of stuff is open, including schools.

And I'll say I think that's roughly correct, policy-wise. Large scale NPI's - particularly closures - are not really on the table for good reason. Vaccinating and boosting 80+% of the population should be the priority along with...

- free accessible high quality masks,
- free and easy rapid testing,
- comprehensive improvements to indoor ventilation

But I don't quite get this sense of victimization and onerous oppression from those who are "done with Covid." I took the subway and played pick-up basketball in NYC yesterday. You can...do what you want?

An importanat addendum is that probably the most disrupted area is childcare, particularly for kids under 5, where exposures and quarantine policies are basically rendering childcare impossible for very stretches that is *profoundly* upending parents' lives.

But even there I'd say that the *driver* of the disruption is less the policies and more the brute fact that there is just a *lot* of a very very transmissible infectious virus circulating in the population.