Omicron Is the Beginning of the End. No matter the severity of the variant, the appetite for shutdowns or other large-scale social interventions simply isn’t there.

In that sense, the spring of 2020 will be remembered as one of the most extraordinary periods in history—a time when people completely withdrew from social life to slow the spread of a dangerous pathogen. But what was possible for a few months has turned out to be unsustainable for years, let alone decades.

Isn’t it amazing that there are people who wanted to continue various states of lockdown for years, and some wanted it essentially forever? How did those people get the way they are? Glad we resisted them.