Hey man just wanted to say don’t give up. It will end but requires resilience to get through.

I’ve found if I focus my mental energy on the things in my life I can control rather than the things I can’t, I am much happier.

I felt suffocated from the lockdowns here in Europe and took a vacation to one of the only country accepting tourists and sunny. I was judged and mocked by my coworkers but I didn’t care it’s none of their business. In planning my trip, there were tons of what if’s and worries about flight cancellations or if the lockdown becomes stricter but I was prepared to accept whatever just to get some sense of normalcy. It helped my mental healthy immensely.

Learning to live with low systematic risk is also a way forward. We have learned to live with the flu and other diseases - and people still die from them.

Tbf i was never comfortable with the seasonal flus and colds. Why are we tolerating that as a necessary evil, loss of productivity, people losing a week of their lives. Schools and workplaces are not even trying to mitigate the spread during high flu season, and that's wrong.

Because the way to stop the spread of flu would be living in full lockdown forever. Not only would that be the end for most of the economy, just a year has shown the other serious negative health impacts that inflicts on people. We have locked down to deal with the imminent disaster posed by COVID-19, but pretending this is sustainable in the long term is delusional.

Illness is a fact of life. Maybe one day we'll cure flu and the common cold, but in the meantime we accept the minimal risk in exchange for being able to actually enjoy life.

Sick leave, masking, vacation scheduling, and vaccination requirements would make a huge degree of progress.

We can adapt some things though, e.g. move school holidays to overlap with high flu season. Reduce office spread by managing people appropriate etc.

Illness is certainly natural, but hoarding kids in classrooms and packing people in trains are not.

humans do not give up, we adapt

Humanity adapts, but some humans do give up.

There is nothing to adapt to. We need to just live with this thing. These restrictions and non stop panic are not sustainable human practices. We need to accept covid is here to stay and return back to pre-pandemic 2019 normal. Full stop.

There is vastly more problems in the world than exactly one very specific disease.

People have become hypersensitive to COVID-19 and we are monitoring it to a level never seen before in human history. I have little doubt if we tracked other viruses the same we we are tracking this one, there would be just as many fear inducing variants and oddities.

I see this same behavior with server monitoring. If your log levels are too high, you lose the signal in the noise. We have our covid logs cranked up to verbose... most of what we see is just noise.

We can also adapt to one-trick politicians