People will be dying from coronavirus regularly, from now on. Forever. The question really is: how many years of life expectancy are we willing to trade for how we used to live? or for how we used to live with masks in public? I think a lot of left thinking is avoiding this Q.

Compare our expectation around coronavirus to other major killers, like heart disease. We view these as inevitable. We& #39;re used to thinking about these risks. Are we thinking clearly when we think about a world with no new coronavirus cases globally?

One aspect that this line of reasoning ignores: the possibility that, if left to mutate, the virus has a nontrivial chance of becoming much more dangerous to society. In that case, we have no chance but to eradicate it.