Laying It Out: Living with COVID was a bad idea then, and it's a terrible idea now - Medicine Hat NewsMedicine Hat News
For more than a year we’ve heard leaders talk about “flattening” or “bending” the curve of COVID-19. And before a year of living in a global pandemic, plus talking to epidemiologists, ER doctors, developmental biologists and more, it even made sense. “We have to live with the virus.” At that point, when everyone from the World Health Organization to our Facebook friends lacked understanding, it sounded reasonable to assume we could avoid a spike and then keep cases at a low plateau. But we’ve already curbed two waves only to learn “plateaus” aren’t a thing, and now we’...