Originally Posted by turbojet28

I used to think, also, that restrictions wouldn’t be able to last “just because”, but I have since traded that logical optimism for cynical pessimism. I am appalled at how unserious most people in the public are about their freedom being trampled on. They still don’t understand. I am convinced that the only way restrictions will be lifted is large-scale civil disobedience. Unfortunately politics, apathy, and cowardice are much too pervasive in our culture that I now wonder if it will ever happen. Hate to be a downer. Not saying I don’t think the economy will not recover to some reasonable level, but if anyone thinks all restrictions are going to be cancelled, and we are just going back to “normal” I would caution to think otherwise. Virtue signaling, politics, and “love” have opened Pandora’s box of executive power, and it is going to be impossible to put it back in, regardless of herd immunity.

I sincerely hope that in one year this post will look like the ramblings of a crazy person, but I am not putting my money on that happening.