So now the govt is going to drop mask mandates at long last!

[Olive]

I think that many of the calls for the abandonment of masking and other protections (e.g. Cecilia Robinson in the Herald recently) are based on a kind of magical thinking: if we return our behaviour to pre-pandemic habits then the virus will somehow disappear and the world will be just as it was pre-pandemic. No it won't, the world has changed forever and the virus continues to mutate. A new variant will emerge, probably sooner rather than later, and we must be prepared for it.