So the vaccines have apparently not been having a huge impact on numbers lately. Then there’s all the freaking out about variants. So I was wondering what your opinions were on the basic issue: how far do you think America / the world will lose progress on the virus? What measures will be needed to save lives? And more importantly, to what extent do you think those measures will be followed?
Because I’ve been thinking that anything less than New York in March is going to meet with a lot of resistance, to the extent that attempts to shame the resisters as selfish won’t do much practical good in the end. That led me to wonder if even highs in hospitalizations and deaths worse than anything we’ve seen so far would be sufficient to scare people into compliance. That led me to wonder if that was likely, or even possible.
So with all those questions unanswered in my mind, I thought I’d toss it out to y’all.