The choice is ours – how opening up will turn us into moralists of daily life.

This article is just garbage. It’s full of unevidenced assertions, false choices, and an utter ignorance of how people actually behave. But it’s pretty typical of the “experts” we’ve relied on during this pandemic. However, a commenter said it better than I could about why this whole method of thinking is flawed and plainly disastrous:

The pandemic goalposts have been strapped onto an SR-71A Blackbird and it has taken off, jetting away at top speed. Remember “flattening the curve?” Or in the UK, “Protect the NHS?” Remember “when the vaccines are here, we’ll be able to get back to normal?”

I do. Not many people seem to recall those things, but I do.

What exactly is the end goal, the desired state of the lockdown lifers? I don’t think they have one. I think lockdown is now the goal.