re: #174 Belafon

Possibly, but we’ve moved to the point where the virus isn’t causing enough deaths to make people worry. Their ban, with sane people going to other states to get it, will basically be used to say “Look, we banned it and no more people got extra sick.”

Yep. It may be about as lethal as the flu these days — though I don’t know the effects on someone who is unvaccinated or has not had the boosters. A friend who had 3 vaccinations was infected in May this year and hospitalized for 5 days due to low oxygen. But she did survive. The evidence is that the combination of a less lethal virus and better treatment means that population mortality statistics apparently are now about the same as the pre-pandemic level.