[ExI] enough time has passed...

[Will Steinberg]

Unfortunately, nightmares are psychological, so it will be over when the
collective fear wanes.  Idk whether it will happen suddenly but I imagine
it will take around another ear to peter out.  Hopefully not two.

I also worry about covid mandate type stuff sticking even after the virus
isn't a threat, just because of the way bureaucracy works.  Some of the
mandates have set timespans, but for others, the local or federal
legislatures will have to explicitly turn them off.  For example in Philly
now you can't eat (or do a lot of other stuff) inside without a vax card.
I don't have one.  Even after the virus is gone, who's to say they won't
keep the rule around because of laziness? (Hopefully not something more
malicious, but I think usually it's just laziness.)

So that kinda stuff freaks me out.  I'm fairly sure we will be seeing the
long term effects of this for years, not just psychologically, financially,
and societally, but also in terms of actual law/enforcement.

On Sat, Jan 22, 2022 at 2:47 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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