One of the unpleasant things about the recent pandemic surge has been the opportunistic article-writing to relitigate controversial issues like school closures, which had, with the previous numbers, become a thing of the past, with broad agreement across the political spectrum that they were no longer necessary. Look at the trajectory of today's numbers. The schools are not going to be closed for long. But to read these articles, you'd think educators are planning to keep kids at home for the rest of their lives, rather than until the massive, unprecedented surge subsides. (You'd also think that the US compulsory schooling system was a biologically essential part of human development rather than an early-1900s social invention).

"Living with COVID" doesn't mean "ignoring COVID", and I'd be interested to see viewpoints that are a bit less extreme and more open to the idea that living with a cyclic (and still-deadly) coronavirus requires seasonal adjustments to reality on the ground rather than unconditionally charging ahead with no precautions.