It’s so surreal to see posts about masks and Covid.
I live in Denmark. At the beginning of last year, the government decided that Covid was no longer a critical threat, and all restrictions were removed on February 1st, 2022.
I have not seen a single mask since. I’ve heard Covid mentioned here maybe twice in the past year, with maybe one family I know getting infected in that period (that I know of…).
My wife and I were Team Restrictions, in the aggressively cautious (and scared) end of the spectrum. Two young daughters; those of you with kids (especially little ones) will probably know the crippling fear of losing your children.
Then one day the government decides it’s just over, we can’t be bothered with this anymore, and there was nothing we could do about it. Most of the country seemed very happy with the whole thing, certainly most people we know (and most of them had received our secret scorn for their borderline indifference to caution and protocol).
And then time passed, and some more time, and I went from checking in on the hardcore epidemiologists on Twitter daily — the ones constantly (and correctly!) pointing out that the decision to “cancel Covid” was insane, 100% political and in complete denial of the available data — to completely forgetting Covid happened.
2 years of hell, and for more than a year it’s been completely out of my thoughts. It’s absolutely mind-blowing. Especially since this is not the reality everywhere else. I don’t think about Covid anymore, at all, unless something like this post reminds me it’s still alive and kicking.