Honestly, yes, COVID is now ineradicable, if there even was any chance of eradicating it. Let's pull our heads out of the sand and be rational about it. We just have to accept the consequences of having it around forever and deal with the likelihood of catching it throughout our lives as best we can:<p>- accept reduced life expectancy for people who are elderly or overweight<p>- spacing and strong ventilation in public indoor places by default<p>- reduce our reliance on IRL entertainment and socializing<p>- spread out our cities to build less dense housing and more suburbs<p>- on trips outside the home, avoid public transit and prefer personal vehicles<p>- reduce our reliance on mass public education in overcrowded schools
“New” doesn’t feel like the right word since for a long time it’s been known we’d need to shift to living with it. Getting the timing right for that shift has immense consequences, but I’d say it’s more a “next phase” in strategy rather than a “new” strategy.