Opinion: Call this wave of COVID whatever you want, it’s clear we’re not all in it together, EmmaRoseTeitel writes.
We have to learn to live with COVID-19. This is the directive on the lips of nearly every leader in the land. It’s also a lie. When someone says: “We have to learn to live with COVID-19,” they don’t mean “We.” They mean “I.”
If “living with COVID” was a “we” effort as opposed to an “I” one, we would have had no issue resuming public activities — school included — with masking in place. We would not have abandoned mask mandates in March: an easy and effective means to mitigate spread and render public space safer for vulnerable people. And if we had for whatever foolish reason abandoned those mandates, we would not now refuse to reinstate them in the midst of yet another wave of the virus.
This is the oblivious wave. How do our leaders compel us to learn to live with COVID-19? They pretend it’s essentially over. “We’re now at a stage where the peak of the pandemic has passed us,” Ontario’s Minister of Health Christine Elliot said at a news conference this week. “We need to get on with our lives and learn to live with COVID as it still exists with us.”
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