Would you ever have associated status quo with COVID-19? How strange to consider this might continue to be the "current state of things". Typically there are those who want to disrupt the status quo and those who want to maintain the status quo because it benefits them.
Will we or can we "exit the pandemic"? As though we can turn right or take an off-ramp and leave it behind on the highway? The experts are ahead of us and are weighing in on what's to come.
One of them is Seema Yasmin, a journalist and doctor interviewed HERE on what needs to change. Her first item was supporting the mental health of health care workers. The second is the need to improve scientific literacy among the public. "Something we’ve had to do is get people up to speed on the evolving — rapidly evolving — science as we are learning it,” Yasmin said. “We’re building bridges and we cross it. And we’re sharing that information with the public, realizing it’s not hitting home. We’re not communicating it well. And that shows how difficult it is in a crisis to get the public up to speed when you haven’t had investment in education,” she added. “I think so many of these things are not quick fixes that we want to hear about, but they are paradigm shifts and they are generational issues that will take time to fix.”
America's "dreaded mask issue" was on the table: On Monday, American immunologist Anthony S Fauci said while it was difficult to predict as yet what could be the new normal, he does not think that people will roam around with their masks on forever. I wonder if that is a quote or the journalist used the verb "roam".
The Endemictransition is being debated. Six medical experts close to the White House published three op-eds in the Journal of the American Medical Association, arguing that the time had come for a new approach to the pandemic—one that sets aside the campaign for eradication in favor of living with the disease. Covid-19, one op-ed argued, should no longer even be tracked on its own but monitored together with other respiratory viruses, such as the flu.
Something that we've lived in is the State of Emergency, Here's the latest on this:“A ‘new normal with COVID’ in January 2022 is not living without COVID-19,” Ezekiel Emanuel, of the University of Pennsylvania, Celine Gounder, of N.Y.U., and Michael Osterholm, of the University of Minnesota, wrote. But they believed that the long era of emergency—the one defined by a wartime feeling and frequent briefings from Anthony Fauci—should draw to a close.
Just last week, a cat was returned home after nearly 12 years of going missing. Vaughan Animal Services picked her up and scanned the microchip to find the owner who now lives in Kitchener.
This cat very much owned the street in Niagara-on-the-Lake a few years ago during a garden tour.
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