“Current public health messaging is that #COVID19 has reached some version of endemic status. The advertising campaign implies that the end of the pandemic is near, and we have reached an acceptable level of safety. This is far off the mark. In reality, COVID-19 will eventually transition into an endemic, however, it’s going to be a brutal ending to the pandemic. Endemicity is not a guarantee of safety, it’s an assurance to be constantly on guard.” https://thepavlovictoday.com/the-perils-of-endemic-covid-19/
I've finally accepted that it's going to take something much worse to bring back any public health precautions, so this just goes in the "never-ending" category in my mind for now.
It's my understanding that our county has now fallen under 90% uptake in childhood vaccines for kids entering school and is dropping rapidly. I suspect that eventually people will remember why public health was implemented, but, it's not even on their radar at this point and I don't really want to participate in their experiment.
Soooo I've studied a lot of history, casually, it was a hobby of mine and of my father's. Here's the weird thing. With occasional exceptions like Easter Island, most societies don't exactly *collapse*.
Institutions collapse. New institutions arise, and they often do so *first*. The seeds of the new society are visible in the wreckage of the old society.
Many many institutions are not fit for purpose and have failed. Now is the time to build new better institutions.
@BE @augieray I think society's going to collapse before people will remember why public health—or, for that matter, ANYTHING done communally for the benefit of all—was implemented.
Our society's already been destroyed. We're just in the long tail of watching the destruction play out, the train barreling toward the cliff in slow motion, the Titanic bearing down on the iceberg.