On Feb. 7, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) published a piece entitled, “As Covid-19 Vaccines Raise Hope, Cold Reality Dawns That Illness Is Likely Here to Stay” that basically confirms what we have been saying all along: that getting vaccinated for the Chinese virus will not bring back the old normal.
In fact, getting vaccinated for the Chinese virus will do a whole lot of nothing, as “authorities” say that masks, distancing, and other “new normal” protocols still need to be followed despite the jab.
WSJ writers Daniela Hernandez and Drew Hinshaw explain that even though people are now getting vaccinated by the millions, Chinese germs will continue to “circulate for years, or even decades, leaving society to coexist with COVID-19 much as it does with other endemic diseases like flu, measles, and HIV.”
The difference, of course, is that nobody was ever expected to wear a face diaper for any of those things. Only since the WuFlu came along has society been completely upended in the name of staying “safe” against the virus.
“Going through the five phases of grief, we need to come to the acceptance phase that our lives are not going to be the same,” says Thomas Friedman, a former director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“I don’t think the world has really absorbed the fact that these are long-term changes,” he added.
In other words, masks and distancing are never going away if Friedman and others like him have anything to say about it. They are now a mainstay of American life, even as many other countries return back to normal.
Some infectious disease experts say that these restrictions could go away now that there are vaccines widely available, while others are painting a grim future where things never go back to normal due to corona-fear....<<<Read The Full Article Here>>>...