. Just stop this
nonsense and deceit about diminishing the COVID threat.
If that is directed at me rather than a general note, you might have misunderstood my point.
The point is that C-19 is a serious threat that could easily be mitigated with using common sense and avoiding politicized BS.
However, as a dinosaur issue (per the OP's Q about pool) , AND a good historical example, over millennia people keep learning to deal with serious threats by practicing good sanitation, habits (mask wearing) or as indicated. Some of these threats (TB) were worse in their time than C-19. And drug resistant TB continues to gain footholds where it was almost irradicated.
At the turn of the last century (1900) taking public transportation in a major city and going to a low end pool hall would almost certainly have exposed an individual to TB. At that time most people (100%) who caught it died. About 6 - 7% who catch C-19 seem to die.
We learned to manage TB by gradually imposing all kinds of forms of better sanitation and health habits. Including better nutrition, eventually eliminating sweat shops, better lighting and ventilation, etc, etc.over a 50 to 100 year period.
In consideration of that, my point was that simply wearing a mask and practicing reasonable social distancing. (like getting used to not shaking hands without anyone taking offense) seems pretty reasonable.
If your comment was directed to the world at large, i agree with you.
It remains true that a concern in coming years is all the drug resistance bugs including super strains of TB that are recurring due to poor public education and policies regarding mitigation of the factors that cause those events until they become pandemics somewhere. TB & a few others could have been irradicated & are making comebacks due to laxness and denial, usually at a political level ("It's gone, we don't need to fund that")
smt