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> The death rate for covid is significant but not substantial enough in itself to cause the world to lock down. The points above though, are.

For USA the death rate is still higher than times when we were not RTO.

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The people dying of COVID and the people working from home are different cohorts. We have a vaccine, anti-virals, and natural immunity. Will the WFH cohort see an increase in deaths due to RTO? Certainly. We’ll also see more car accidents. The world has never been free of risk, and we are now emerging from the pandemic with a newly integrated risk model for this disease. It’s going to be touch and go for a while — years — but it’s important to remember that flattening the curve was always the goal. COVID Zero was never in play.

> The people dying of COVID and the people working from home are different cohorts. We have a vaccine, anti-virals, and natural immunity

Well, yes. The people dying were always generally unvaccinated.

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