3 years on:
China ‘reopens’ global travel as their country battles an immense Covid wave with reports of possible new variants.
The media starts playing with the should we shouldn’t we be testing Chinese flights idea which will no doubt slowly ramp up to vilifying ‘Chinas mass spreading’ especially once the Lunar new year starts.
UK hospitals and GP surgeries have essentially started to collapse under the immense pressures of being unstaffed, strikes, Covid, Flu, Strep A, and other mounting health issues.
Lots of people getting repeatedly infected with bad colds flus and other illnesses on a monthly basis after reverting back to precovid behaviours. Nasty symptoms start showing up like shooting ear pain, a tight chest, nausea, loss of smell and taste, fatigue, weird headaches and sky high fevers.
Schools and businesses have made zero improvements to air filtration and ventilation, after the Christmas break numbers of sick people will rise even more.
People have now started going in to work with colds, Covid and other sickness bugs spreading them further as employers lose patience with multiple absences. It’s seemingly acceptable to now cough and sneeze all day long as though nothing is wrong.
Vaccination protection wanes across huge numbers of the population as they opt out of boosters. Deaths and excess deaths slowly start creeping up.
Face mask use now negligible, the majority are now resigned to risk catching ‘mild Covid’ which incidentally can floor you for days and wreck your immune system for a few months.
The economy is in the shitter.
Yet one could argue that we haven’t learned a thing as the cycle looks to be repeating itself once again.