70% Americans think COVID is here to stay and it’s time to move on

[Fmr. Gov. NickG]

How can 70% of people say we need to “move on with our lives” when 52% in the same poll support continuing mask mandates and social distancing.  This is -not- “moving on” from covid.

[Fmr. Gov. NickG]

At this point, I'm not sure what would be the harm in everyone agreeing to declare the pandemic over and never mention "covid" again (except for the purpose of medical research). 

Vaccinated people aren't getting seriously ill from the virus anymore, so they wouldn't notice. The might get infected and get a sore throat, but it wouldn't be noticeably different from normal cold & flu season.

A lot of unvaccinated people would become seriously ill and die.  But if you're still unvaccinated at this points, it's because you don't believe in covid or believe a bunch of other implausible conspiracy theories.  So these people will just believe they are dying of something else anyway.

We should probably still get annual covid vaccine boosters, but these can just be given at the same time as the annual flu shot without any additional effort on the part of the patient.

[Fmr. Gov. NickG]

At this point, I'm not sure what would be the harm in everyone agreeing to declare the pandemic over and never mention "covid" again (except for the purpose of medical research). 

Why would we do this with covid when we don't with the flu?

Because people don't react with irrational paranoia toward mentions of the flu. 

I'm not really serious about never mentioning covid again.  But certainly it is no longer something that should in any way impact our day-to-day lives.