Within 200 years, the madness we are living through will find its place in the history book next to the Salem witch trials and the War of the Worlds, that is, assuming we live through it.

I'm so glad to see someone else saying this. It absolutely will be remembered as a Mass Hysteria. It also has overtones of the worst that state religion has to offer. Ironically, W. Bernstein published a book in 2021 called "The Delusions of Crowds: Why People Go Mad in Groups" that completely ignored our response to Covid (except to toe the party line). Even more ironically, Bernstein had harsh words for Mackay, author of the 1841 classic "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds", in which Mackay ignored the ongoing British Railway Bubble.

Ironically, our controls might have selected specifically for uncontrollable strains.

No, it's not normal and it's not natural. I remember being treated like this by the same people I heard spread fear and misinformation about COVID throughout the year before I got COVID. It's incredibly dehumanizing, isolating, and fractures any sense of community. My relationship with those people will never be the same.

It seems to me that one essential function of high school is being served here: to teach that in the realm of human behavior, “horrible” and “normal” are not mutually exclusive.

They are kids and acting like kids.

It is normal.

CDC and US has full on PR every day on how bad COVID is and how we should get vaccine and wear masks. People who don't do those are ostracized.

People who don't think covid is a big deal is labeled anti-science and covid-denier.

With all this, of course, every normal reasonable person is scared of covid.

If a person next to me has covid, I sure as hell will run away as soon as possible.

Saving myself is way more important than saving your feeling.

I hope anyone would do the same. Don't worry about hurting my feeling. That is negligible. Save yourself first.

No it's incredibly abnormal. It's a sign of brainwashing and paranoia.