link to original reddit post by /u/mrpenguin_86
I'm starting to see what I think will be the inevitable path of COVID in the US. I see lots of people who don't understand risk management who have been taking their outrageous precautions for 18 months. I keep wondering how this will all end, and I think I have the answer.
People will keep taking their precautions. They will want everyone to show proof of vaccination or negative tests when they come to their parties. Every time. But then... they'll forget... maybe remember the next time. But then they'll forget again. People will start going out and dancing. They'll realize on a personal level, like so many of us who are back to normal, that maybe it's okay to take risks. People will stop being scared of COVID just like people stopped being scared of terrorists by around 2008.
Soon enough, they'll forget that there's even risk involved, and we'll go back to living in a world where people die, often of things like the flu, and it's okay.
But the shitty thing will be the laws and governmental power that remains. There are so many rules and regulations that we suffer in this country because of something that happened 40, 50, 100 years ago. In 2050, we'll be suffering under a world where it's, e.g., impossible to evict people because "US Public Health Emergency Act of 2022" or some shit made it impossible to evict people because of the potential public health implications. We'll be taking covid tests in 2030 to do random things not because it's a threat anymore but because a law gets passed saying they are mandatory for whatever, with no sunsetting or anyone demanding that they justify the law's existence.
I think that's where we're heading: more rules and regulations that 99% of people follow for decades with 0 questions.