This isn’t some sort of binary choice. You could take some basic precautions in crowded spaces or try new lower risk activities to socialise with friends e.g things you do outside. You know, do what humans have done for thousands of years: adapt.

But people are so eager to go back to exactly how things were.

> What’s the alternative in your hypothetical? If it’s “never socialize normally again”, then hell yes I’ll fade the mostly prop guns. Even if the alternative is two years of these measures, I think the .99 nearly no-op and .999 survival is way preferable.

What morbid insanity. In the US 850,000 people are dead. That's more dead people than all US soldiers who have died in combat in all wars in history.

Wear a mask, get vaccinated, socially distance, and stop risking your life and that of the people you love.

Would you please stop posting in the flamewar style to HN? We're trying for something different here.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

Real life is full of risks. You can't seriously expect people to continue socially distancing and wearing masks indefinitely. What morbid insanity.