I guess many countries are going to go with eternal lockdowns, despite not being terribly effective, because they tried nothing else, and all the nothing they tried also failed.

Makes total sense. If I ever get the patience, I will write something about how the embrace of lockdown by so many is a symptom of the utter failure of societal and individual imagination on all levels, and how the erasure of the social commons is a recapitulation of the expunction of the ideas of civic duty and civic virtue.

Lockdown is the sledgehammer applied to the ant, the nose excised to spite the face. It does work, sort of, but it’s a destructive tool that harms more than even those who realize its harm can admit.