Unless there’s a 20% death rate of a new virus, even the “stupid masked” Americans aren’t falling for it anymore.
I mostly agree with this. I believe there is a shift in the narrative taking place. Politicians and the media are a fickle group who are always looking for the next big crisis to exploit. It is amazing how they turned what was basically a slightly worse version of the flu into a huge disaster.
That said, my wife and I have been sick for over a month with a bad bout of Covid. We are slowly getting over it, but sheesh! Supposedly, Delta which we had a year and a half ago was worse than Omicron, but we licked that in about a week. At our dentist's office where we caught this latest version the fully vaccinated and boosted staff were nearly all down for a month.
The interesting thing to me is that for us the version that is going around now seems worse than previous versions but the coverage is no longer hysterical. This is a positive development as far as we are concerned.
Don’t bet on it. I had an acquaintance who PROUDLY posted a photo/selfie of himself fully masked getting his 5th CoVID booster shot with the comment that he’s really glad he got this booster because he had to wait two weeks to get it because he had CoVID and they wouldn’t give him the booster while he was “sick”.
Say WHAT?