CDC opens probe after 35 test positive for #COVID following CDC conference where they didn’t take COVID precautions https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2023/05/02/covid-outbreak-cdc-annual-conference/
CDC opens probe after 35 test positive for covid following CDC conference

Attendees say many people did not mask, socially distance or take other precautions recommended earlier in the pandemic.

The Washington Post
When experts say "this is, unfortunately, the new normal," it's important to add that the "new normal" means continuing high levels of death, chronic illness, and exclusion of high risk and immunocompromised people from society. The "new normal" is unacceptable.
@luckytran let’s see if they change their minds once they are part of the immune compromised demographic. Mo infection mo damage.

@andymoose @luckytran Spoiler alert: Nope

Humans (and to an extreme extent, all other animals) have a mostly unlimited ability to accept defeat, or loss, or most kinds of unimprovement