Our COVID Emergency Unfortunately Will Expire May 11; COVID Itself Won't Expire.

This is a good article by Danny De Gracia at the Honolulu Civil Beat: The War Against Covid Is About To Get Personal

Here's an excerpt:

"The American Hospital Association has a great summary sheet of what the end of the emergency will mean for fiscal reimbursement and health care operations related to the pandemic, but the long and the short is, if you live in an isolated, far off place like Hawaii, you’d better strive from this day forward to save all your money and be as healthy as possible – just in case you get Covid.

If Covid had a human voice and could somehow speak to us about the policy pivot, I’m pretty sure it would be like the fictional Soviet Col. Alexi Zaysen of the movie “Rambo 3,” who mockingly boasts to his American prisoners, “You are alone here, abandoned by your government!”

We’ve already talked to the point of exhaustion about how this disease is a biological forest fire looking for human wood to burn. As someone who suffered immensely from post-Covid conditions, I can tell you that a “mild infection” can still set you up for a wild hammering of painful after effects. You don’t ever want to get this disease if you haven’t already, and if you had it before, there’s a possibility that the next time you get it, you won’t be as lucky in recovering as you were in the previous infection."