Mike you always write thoughtful essays, and I understand the broader point you are making against the out-of-control capitalist system that is so destructive to our natural commons that supports sanity and life. We need to change. We need to be aware. But I think people in general will move on from COVID restrictions no matter what. Death does not shock us anymore: gun violence, brutal war by mass mass slaughter, death by extreme weather, thousands dying from a virus. Normal shifts; and I don’t see a way out of our headlong race to ecological and societal disaster. We are on a runaway bus and we can’t get off.