In a world where the vaccines didn’t work or don’t exist, the government’s latest restrictions make sense. In this world, they are only intelligible if you assume the government is entirely incompetent.

We still talk about this virus as though we don’t have these prophylactics and anti-virals. SARS-CoV-2 is a deadly and frightening virus ONLY IF we pretend we don’t have these medicines. Now, it is entirely treatable. Let’s move on.