"Welcome to the New Abnormal", what a great end line. As a writer, slightly jealous. As an analyst, total agreement.

People do not appreciate the dangerous place we are in right now. The "nostalgia for the old normal" is powerful. People want to take vacations. They want to go to amusement parks, clubs, bars, restaurants, and gyms.

People want things to go back to the way they used to be, so everyone is pretending Covid is under control and it's safe. It's not.

Over 75 Percent of Long Covid Patients Were Not Hospitalized for Initial Illness, Study Finds

"new study adds to a growing body of evidence that, people with mild or moderate initial coronavirus infections — who make up the vast majority of coronavirus patients — can still experience debilitating post-Covid symptoms including breathing problems, extreme fatigue and cognitive and memory issues".

Not to mention the weird disconnect in people's minds between the speed covid keeps mutating and the possibility of a high death rate mutation occurring. The first SARS virus in 2003-2004 had a fatality rate of 9.5%.

A highly fatal, highly contagious version of Covid could easily crop up.

Until we get Covid under control globally that's a real possibility. It happens with the flu all the time.

Nobody cares.

This week here in Arlington VA, there was a measles outbreak. A family taking a safari vacation in Africa WITH UNVACCINATED CHILDREN came through the airport with a contagious child and infected about a dozen people.

That's the kind of entitled, selfish, thinking that we are up against.

Until enough Trumpublicans start dying so that even the stupidest among them will follow directions, the rest of us will have to live "at risk".