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The concept at the time 

Was to send infected people to nursing homes. 

To me, the initial reaction about locking down was a natural and logical thing to do. And if you read the data there appears to have been some benefit to having closed down nonessential large gatherings.

But what jumps out at me today is there is still a crowd in the media and the government who are claiming “science“ around the lockdown policy, and calling those who disagree conspiracy theorist or spreaders of miss information. 

The data says that the ones claiming this are actually the ones who are abandoning science and spreading disinformation.

Today, I don't see much enthusiasm for lockdowns outside Europe, and agree we don't need widescale lockdowns.  Our symphony cancelled two performances recently, well, OK, their choice, they also require me to show my vax card to enter, which is the only time I've had to show it other than entering Hawaii.  

After seeing packed football stadia with screaming fans have little apparent impact on the spread, I doubt attending a symphony is much of a risk except it's mostly older folks.

It is R naught for different diseases.

Covid will never become an endemic virus, scientist warns (cnbc.com)

Scientists use a mathematical equation, the so-called R naught (or R0), to assess how quickly a disease is spreading. The R0 indicates how many people will catch a disease from an infected person, with experts at Imperial College London estimating omicron’s could be higher than 3. 

so this whole theory is that there will always be a new variant to maintain it being a epidemic

seems a little weak to me

almost like they dont want the world to recover from this

we have to deal in the now and not the what if

the now is that we are very quickly moving toward endemic status

Not sure how many years/waves it will take epidemiologists to declare it officially as endemic, but in practice it's already there. It keeps coming back, it's never going away, it's endemic.