I don't necessarily mean to a small amount of cases. I'm trying to wrap my head around what the next couple months will be looking like. It's not enough, but at least in my state the mask mandate is back everywhere and we're opening more testing sites/improving numbers at current sites. Our vaccination rate is also over 80%. The vaccine is widely available and easy to walk in and get.
The problem is still no mandatory lock down, not enough proper time off, and not all jobs pay workers (outside of PTO) who take off for covid related issues. Those are pretty big road blocks to number of cases going down.
Do these numbers ever go down to noticeable degree without proper measures in place? If not, I wonder what it'll take to get a real response again
They most definitely will go down and lethality will need to climb up considerably for capital to get scared enough to re-implement a lot of measures, instead of hitting the gas pedal as it envisions a quick way out. FYI it's not just the US, Spain is also considering talllying covid as another respiratory infection and thus "normalize" covid. These sort of decisions ripple and feedback into themselves, it's clear where the trend is going.
They can’t ignore the health system collapse? Aren’t they?
It's already unaccessible to vast majorities, you could say there has been a health crisis going on for decades.
Healthcare costs going up means insurance premiums going up which leads to fewer employers offering medical benefits, particularly to unorganized labor.
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It makes me think I'm gonna be wearing a mask forever then