(In)Frequently Asked Questions: COVID-19
Are you tired of “living with COVID?” I am. We’ve been dealing with this virus since early 2020, and it’s not going away anytime soon.
April 2025, Renee Despres PhD, MPH
COVID could be over – but it’s not. Wecould have stopped this long ago–but instead,
we pretended it was over, which guaranteed that it would never end. We pretended that vaccines were the magic bullet that would end the pandemic. We pretended we didn’t need to take any precautions and we could go to restaurants, bars, packed concert halls, fly in airplanes packed like sardines, and send kids to crowded, poorly ventilated classrooms.
After all, who wants to wear a face mask, test, isolate when sick, avoid restaurants and
bars, homeschool, your kids, get vaccinated at least once a year, and turn down invitations to parties? It’s a lot easier to just pretend the wholething is over – until it isn’t…