I'm not sure about this read either though. We've been powerfully signaled to stop considering it, but it is still out there and still spinning off new variants, some of which are worse than their precursors. It's still killing a lot of people, plus disabling who even knows how many.
It's entirely possible that on the scale of like 30-40 years, this period will be considered a "slump" in how bad covid is, or a time when we were just not considering its effects enough. I don't think this scenario is extremely likely, but I do think our collective uncertainty about long term covid effects on society is still very very high and we should be factoring that into long-term decisions like where to live, housing ownership, etc.
The high confidence people are comfortable displaying about where we are with it is not warranted, imo. It may not be a critical day-to-day concern for most people anymore. But there's no guarantee it can't go back to that state, or with the hindsight view of covid disabilities we'll have wished we kept it as a daily concern during this time.
Plus nursing homes are probably going to remain more lethal than they have been during most of our lives. I think expecting a social change around elderly care based partially on that is astute.
Just saying I share your viewpoint. I continue to wear my mask and get vaccines. We really have very little idea how continued exposure, despite vaccines, will go.
It's entirely possible that on the scale of like 30-40 years, this period will be considered a "slump" in how bad covid is, or a time when we were just not considering its effects enough. I don't think this scenario is extremely likely, but I do think our collective uncertainty about long term covid effects on society is still very very high and we should be factoring that into long-term decisions like where to live, housing ownership, etc.
The high confidence people are comfortable displaying about where we are with it is not warranted, imo. It may not be a critical day-to-day concern for most people anymore. But there's no guarantee it can't go back to that state, or with the hindsight view of covid disabilities we'll have wished we kept it as a daily concern during this time.
Plus nursing homes are probably going to remain more lethal than they have been during most of our lives. I think expecting a social change around elderly care based partially on that is astute.