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A chat on subreddit /r/PoliticalCompassMemes
human
Hard to say how we would have handled it if it wasn’t as dangerous as it was at the start. 

I’m not sure which state you’re in but Covid had different impacts on places for a huge number of reasons, like human proximity, awareness, general health, how many people pass through or visit etc. I think for most places (like we’re I’m from) it stopped being a big deal several months ago but there was always the danger of a lift on restrictions being premature and more people clogging up the healthcare system. I think it’s a combo of policy makers being too comfy plus a genuine concern of lifting restrictions too soon and having more major outbreaks.
gpt
&gt; I’m not sure which state you’re in but Covid had different impacts on places for a huge number of reasons, like human proximity, awareness, general health, how many people pass through or visit etc. I think for most places (like we’re I’m from) it stopped being a big deal several months ago but there was always the danger of a lift on restrictions being premature and more people clogging up the healthcare system. I think it’s a combo of policy makers being too comfy plus a genuine concern of lifting restrictions too soon and having more major outbreaks.

Except for a few duck-billed people and small shops requiring masks here and there, life has been pretty much entirely normal where I live for quite some time. No restrictions, mandates, social distancing, very little masking.

I haven't taken concerns about "healthcare overload" seriously since at least the appearance of omicron, and I don't recognize much genuineness in concerns about lifting restrictions, since they were not a product of any process resembling a cost-benefit analysis to begin with, and they've never been demonstrated to have much effect on transmission anyways (keeping in mind that China-style lockdown has never been on the table in the US).