The Covid-19 pandemic is still fresh in many of our minds and so is the trauma of being told to stay home, stay away from others, and be very afraid. When the world shut down. Staying clean and being antiseptic was the rule, especially in our offices where patients would lie on our treatment tables. Lysol everything, use special wipes even on Amazon packages. Most of this was folly but what did we know? The virus was transmitted to others through the air. People who were intubated and placed on ventilator machines to help them breathe artificially which was killing many of those early cases because we just didn’t know. 84% who were on ventilators early on did not survive. The entire procedure of at-home testing, quarantining, and such put COVID-19 in a special category of named viruses that we needed to be extra cautious with or else… Of course, the politics of the virus was a catastrophe with left and right ideologies. Masks became a political show as unmasking did. The harm was done by masking too long, not enough, or using an ineffective mask. Weather played a part as outside lifestyles had lower infections than indoor which increased them. The science is ventilation-dependent which is why newer buildings with better ventilation indoors had lower infection rates. Temperature checks became the norm although they did little to help us get through the pandemic. It was mostly a procedure everyone was told they had to perform. If we only knew then what we know now. Of course, the vaccines work best on older people who are more likely to be affected by the virus. Now, post-pandemic. Some of us are still masking up for various reasons, although the best reason to do it is so you do not infect others when you are ill. The science showed us that masking for short periods at the pandemic’s beginning could have stopped the rapid spread. Later on, the barriers created by masking got in the way of our natural immunities causing two of the worst cold and flu seasons as the masks came off. Eventually, the immunity debt as it was called reversed itself as your exposure to everything rebuilt your natural immunity to what is in our communities. This micro-dosing adapts us to new pathogens and trains our immune systems. That is how it always worked although some of us may believe otherwise. We are now at herd immunity where you and your neighbors have been exposed multiple times. We occasionally will have a mild case of COVID-19 which can affect us all somewhat differently depending on how the variant you experienced affects you. Take large amounts of vitamin C and zinc tabs with a Covid-19 infection. Be sure you are not vitamin D deficient which, as we learned had much to do with the cytokine storm that was responsible for many of the hospitalizations early on. Drug companies are still pushing their vaccines but most of us are avoiding additional boosters of the vaccines. Natural immunity appears to have vaccinated most of us from what we are being exposed to. Recently, the NY Times explored the post-pandemic phenomenon and how people are living with COVID-19 as if it is just like any other coronavirus, and for many of us, it is. Most COVID-19 infections are self-limiting and self-resolving post-pandemic, with fewer hospitalizations and emergencies. The science is in how we adapted over thousands of years. The Novel virus tested our abilities to adapt with the vaccines being a bridge back to living our post-pandemic lives. Check out the NY times article below On the Covid ‘Off-Ramp’: No Tests, Isolation or Masks