The more I think about it the more I think that ‘living with it’ is the correct mindset but that the mistake has been to equate ‘living with it’ as going back to the way things were rather than adjusting to a new normal.
‘Living with it’ can’t and won’t mean letting the virus propagate to the extent the health system is overloaded.

No government will let that happen.
‘Living with it’ means having an effective control infrastructure (ie test and trace) AND crucially individuals and institutions amending their behaviour to reduce social interactions.
The good news is that we have made some good progress. The second wave is not as steep and deadly as the first.
The bad news is that we haven’t made enough progress. Until we develop the necessary infrastructure, until we amend our behaviour sufficiently, we will see more draconian restrictions.
It may be. It just maybe that however much we might wish that everything will be the same again - it just won’t.

That past is been and gone.
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