What’s odd about the people below is the constant goalpost shifting that hardly anyone has seemed to call them on.

First it was “flatten the curve.” Ok, I can get behind that one. Lock down for a month, assess, see where we are and make sure the hospitals aren’t overwhelmed. Reasonable in the face of an unknown threat and right in line with the precautionary principle.

Then it was hide inside until the case rate is below a certain number. Ok, seems like that could be a long time, can’t we think of some better ideas? But apparently not.

Then it was lock down until the vaccines are released. Seems iffy, as that timeline is not really clear (in summer 2020).

Then the vaccines arrived and it was lockdown until a certain vaccination rate is reached. A little more reasonable but not really fair to the vaccinated or to anyone who has been cooped up inside for more than a year in general. And especially considering in most countries, nothing else was ever really tried.

Then it became “we can’t end lockdown due to variants” and we must stay inside until some mysterious time in the future under the terrible “Zero Covid” pseudo-plan death cult lib wishful thinking.

Now it’s becoming that lockdown can’t end because there might be unknown threats in the future, some other pandemic, some other grave danger that we could avoid if we just stay sequestered from the world, go full-on Morlock and never emerge again into the light.

It will never end. But it’s up to us to end it, and if we don’t then we deserve what we get.