My doctor friend says last night:
“There has to be a goal attached to public health interventions. It can’t just be austerity for austerity’s sake.”
— Angie Schmitt🚶♀️ (@schmangee) January 27, 2022
A lot of the libs do in fact have a goal: take things away from people, especially if they are items or experiences that provide joy or promote any sort of human flourishing.
But I agree. We never decided what we were attempting to achieve with pandemic mitigations so, shockingly, we never determined when we were done (and never did much that made sense).