Basically, the age when we could expect to stop the virus with non-pharmaceutical interventions — lockdowns, social distancing, masks, test-and-trace — is long, long over.

Jesus Fucking Christ, yes! Zero Covid is a My Little Pony fucking fantasy and has been for a very long time. And we don’t (and never will) have adequate surveillance for prison countries to make a difference.

Noah Smith is remarkably sensible about these things, and about vaccine distribution.

Why do people not understand that “just stay inside forever and ever” is not really a good solution to this pandemic?