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Though officials are still reminding people to wear masks and distance even after being vaccinated, some experts suggest it's time to strike a more optimistic tone and emphasize the hope and freedoms vaccines bring rather than the restrictions that will need to continue.
Covid Absolutism Good morning. We look at the debate over coronavirus absolutism. Image In a public health emergency, absolutism is a very tempting response: People should cease all behavior that creates additional risk. That instinct led to calls for gay men to stop having sex during the AIDS crisis. It has also spurred campaigns for teen abstinence, to reduce sexually transmitted diseases and pregnancies. And to fight obesity, people have been drawn to fads like the elimination of carbohydrates. These days, there is a new absolutist health fad: the discouragement — or even prohibition ...
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The Pandemic Is Heading Toward a Strange In-Between Time Robinson Meyer © Getty / The Atlantic Is the United States past the worst of the pandemic? Cases and hospitalizations have fallen in most states in the past few days, and vaccination news has brightened. Johnson & Johnson published trial data showing that its one-dose vaccine is safe and effective, and the Biden administration has bought 200 million additional vaccine doses from Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna, which already have approved vaccines. By the start of the next school year, every American adult who wants a vacc...