How Does This End?

David Leonhardt: “The bottom line is that Covid now presents the sort of risk to most vaccinated people that we unthinkingly accept in other parts of life. And there is not going to be a day when we wake up to headlines proclaiming that Covid is defeated. In many ways, the future of the virus has arrived.”

“All of which raises the question of which precautions should end — now or soon — and which should become permanent.”

“Should offices remain mostly empty? Should schools require children and teachers to wear masks? Should classrooms go remote again when they identify a new Covid case? For how long should individuals organize their own lives around a fear of Covid?”