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What happened was that business owners and employers decided covid was over and if you didn't have provable covid your ass better be at the job or you're fired.

So many people were heavily pressured to work while sick if they couldn't prove it was covid, and even then there wasn't anything protecting you from being fired if you got covid at a bad time.

Remember that the "essential workers" make $35k a year.

people need to go to parties and have some vague notion that they aren't willfully spreading raging covid to everyone.

In the end it turned out that common sense has always been right. The more sick you are the easier it is to spread and detect. The tests just detect and confirm the obvious.