Dear future historians: please do not believe the narrative, which I& #39;m heartily sick of, that we reopened too soon during COVID because "people got bored." We reopened because our government decided it would rather keep some money than save our lives, full stop.
After that, a handful of angry people yelling about haircuts got widespread media coverage, but millions more people had to decide whether they& #39;d rather risk illness and death or lose their livelihood, which is also a death sentence in this country, just slower.