US turns a blind eye to COVID

It's over, right? We can all just return to normal, right? Wrong says this article citing medical and psychological sources. According to this "searing new article published to Lancet-affiliated preprint journal medRxiv: 'Endemicity is not a victory: the unmitigated downside risks of widespread SARS-COV2 transmission':

"Scenarios under which the U.S. sees surges of a variant more deadly than any seen before are plausible, Chakravarty and his colleagues contend. Hundreds of thousands of deaths could ensue annually, they say. COVID could become the No. 1 cause of death in the U.S., beating out the most common maladies like heart disease and cancer."

"When it comes to the blissful oblivion of many to the pandemic’s continued existence, 'motivated reasoning' is to blame, says psychologist Paul Thagard, a philosopher and cognitive scientist who authored the paper "The cognitive science of COVID-19: Acceptance, denial, and belief change." [...] 'People look at what makes them happy instead of evidence. This virus has been very unpredictable. People want to believe it’s going to get better and better. It’s not based on solid knowledge of the biology of the virus.'"