> Eventually, the costs of organizing our lives around the virus will exceed the benefits. In some cases, we may have already reached that point.<p>Yup. A long time ago if you ask me. I considered it done after my parents had received their second jabs.
"For young children, Covid looks like a normal flu, if not a mild one: <US hospitalization rate for 0-4 yo olds chart, covid lower than flu for 9 out of 10 past years>". This is new data. Hopefully in a year or two our media will finally muster the inquisitive spirit to research such data for other age groups. Who knows, maybe we'll learn that covid is like a (mild) flu for most age groups, except past retirement age...