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The pandemic is over. If you notice no one's wearing masks, everybody seems to be in pretty good shape.

I no longer think infections generally should be the major metric. We really have to focus on

hospitalizations and deaths. We're not going to eradicate this.

Sooner or later, as we begin to live with it, virtually everybody is going to wind up getting exposed and likely get infected.

The scarlet letter of this pandemic is the mask.

It's inconvenient. It's annoying.

And it reminds us that we're in the middle of a pandemic.

So the question becomes, is it rational to

disrupt our lives in all these big and consequential waves? At what point do the costs of

pandemic precautions outweigh the benefits? Six former administration officials last week

wrote that open letter urging the administration to change course, to change strategy.

Is it time?

It is time for us to do what we have been doing, and that time is every day.

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