Burying Our Heads in the Sand About COVID

This article is from and about New Zealand, but it could apply just as well to the United States: "The hundreds of Covid-19 deaths, thousands of hospitalisations and tens of thousands of Long Covid patients won't disappear just because the country has plugged its ears to the virus, Marc Daalder writes."

Some excerpts:

"The reality is that while Covid-19 is no longer the threat it was in 2020 or even during the massive Omicron waves of 2022, neither is it a trifling concern. 

"Insisting that Covid-19 can and will fade to the background is gaslighting. The statistics on the harm of this disease are inarguable, whatever ministers may say to distract from them. Scrapping the remaining measures protecting the public from Covid-19 is foolhardy and inconsistent with the approach we take to other threats to our collective welfare.

"Is wearing a mask for a half-hour when one sees the doctor so onerous and rights-limiting that removing it justifies potentially landing someone else in hospital?

"This isn't about lockdowns and border closures. It's about common sense and sustainable measures.

"Something more than burying our heads in the sand."

Sound familiar?