Any suggestion that we should treat the coronavirus like we treat influenza is ridiculous. This is a totally different virus and we need to keep up our preventive actions in order to prevail.
How calming, how reassuring, to think one day we’ll be able to treat coronavirus “like the flu”.
Just a few thousand deaths a year. No worries.
When Prime Minister Scott Morrison outlined a sketchy pathway to a post-lockdown world (a pathway with no signage, by the way, no speed signs, no indication of length, no warnings of sudden turns) he declared that the third phase (or maybe the second — it’s a little irrelevant when the stages have no concrete vaccination numbers attached to them) would “manage COVID-19 consistent with public health management of other infectious diseases”.
