Sure, covid is still a disease that widely circulates in our communities. That's very true. It is true today, it'll be true for the remainder of our lives. It's something we have to live with. The disease is endemic now today, not a pandemic, this is also what all scientists say, it has a similar status as influenza.
It's even hypothesized and researched at the moment that several past pandemics were also by coronaviruses, some of those still circulate today in the form of a cold today (A lot of colds are caused by coronaviruses). The
1889-1890 pandemic for instance is widely expected/theorised to have been a covid pandemic, with some evidence pointing towards it but additional research is needed.
One of the confusing things is that that whoever experienced that pandemic had higher protection against the Spanish flu, because some strains of influenza viruses disappeared around the time of that pandemic including seasonal circulating H1N1 (which was what the Spanish flu was). Something similar happened in our pandemic with the Yamagata strain being extinct because the covid virus outcompeted it (and our measures being effective against Yamagata). But circumstantional reasons such as worse hygiene among soldiers likely played a part too (this was at the end of WW1) for high mortality among the young here. Also influenza pandemics tend to cause a U-shape. Coronaviruses pandemics a J-shape (which was what 1889-1890 was more like, high mortality among elderly, way less among younger people).
The laws mentioned contain several provisions for quarantine and vaccine mandates which are oppressive at this point. Further, leaving an executive with emergency powers or funding that is no longer timely is never appropriate.
Which are no longer in effect! We repealed the mandates, the funding was allocated and spent and can't be retrieved! That was a whole thing!
This bill doesn't do anything that I can see, it would certainly take up more unnecessary space on the books than most of the bills it's trying to repeal.
You repealed the mask mandate, the other mandates, in particular the vaccine one, appear to still be in law.
Great! That puts it on equal footing with the influenza vaccine.
That's not true because it's not mentioned in the laws it's on equal footing with influenza vaccine.
Influenza vaccines are optional for highly vulnerable people or elderly. It is not really recommended for young people.
Sure, whoever wants a covid booster should have access to it, but we don't want a vaccine mandate. We want it to be optional and provided to whoever wants one, and esp. recommend one to vulnerable demographics.
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Aside of that, it is not a pandemic anymore, so a lot of laws just need to be repealed, the bill in its current form after careful tweaks is one i can get behind on. But we really need to build a post-covid society without hurting human freedom and human rights.
