Comment on There should be a term for people who never really returned from the pandemic's social isolation
Anticorp@lemmy.world 7 hours agoThere’s no “over”. Coronavirus is here to stay now, just like the flu. Thankfully it has become a lot more benign as it has mutated, and we know a lot more about it and have vaccines now, so it’s pretty manageable.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 6 hours ago
By ‘the flu’, do you mean that virus where one entire strain was eradicated by masking and distancing over the winter?
THAT flu? The one with the strain that died out after trivial effort? Do you want to use it as an example of some perennial curse, or are you saying that we can eradicate covid again with similarly trivial effort?
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
It’s pretty clear that they meant “a constant factor in our daily lives”, you really don’t need to be this hostile.
theparadox@lemmy.world 35 minutes ago
I think their point is that, with effort, it can be become a thing of the past.
However, so many are unwilling to put forth the effort because it’s either too inconvenient or they’ve been brainwashed into believing it’s a hoax.