Twenty-two months ago, the world’s top health experts said this COVID-19 thing might be bad, but it eventually would blow over and we’d be done with it.
Today, we know that was not and still is not the case. And we are learning, if we haven’t already, there are no perfect solutions to our day-to-day problems dealing with the virus.
We offer three cases in point:
> Masks: We were told they weren’t helpful, then they were absolutely essential and now that they offer only varying degrees of help, depending on what they’re made of (maybe).
> Vaccines: We were told they couldn’t be properly developed soon enough to help, then they were suspect because the Trump administration had promulgated them, then they were essential to ending the virus, then they might not be as helpful against some variants, then that a booster would give people even more protection, then that were some breakthrough cases (and then a lot), and now that they are the best protection that can be offered at the moment.