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"I wish people understood that COVID becoming endemic would mean that we had to think about it all the time, not that we never had to think about it again.
"'You can't avoid this, we can't eradicate it, it's here forever' is not the 'oh now we can all go to brunch' solution that you seem to think.
"At this point, realistically looking at gestures at flames, COVID is going to become endemic, and I'm exhausted thinking about what that is going to mean.
"Our current reality is what endemic COVID looks like: one in which we have to pay constant attention to whether a variant is particularly deadly and/or transmissible, where we risk hospital overrun every 4-6 months or so, where large gatherings are never safe.
"If you do not WANT this current reality to persist, and I am so, so fucking tired of it, we all need to pull together to do something different."
-- Courtney Mil(4)an (courtneymilan), 2022-01-21
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Serenity Prayer
serenity to accept what cannot be helped,
and the insight to know the one from the other.
~ Reinhold Niebuhr (1892–1971)
[adapted from the reportedly original version]