For all its flaws, I think the article's worth concerns the bigger picture and the future.
COVID is nothing in the bigger picture, and things still looking normal to you again isn't so relevant.
We're living through a human-caused mass extinction, are rapidly depleting/destroying the natural resources our civilization needs for survival while our global population balloons. We have simultaneously destabilized the climate which our civilization rose under and depends upon. These are our absolute failures, the consequences of which are coming, even if things still seem normal in your nice rural region for now.
For all its flaws, I think the article's worth concerns the bigger picture and the future.
COVID is nothing in the bigger picture, and things still looking normal to you again isn't so relevant.
We're living through a human-caused mass extinction, are rapidly depleting/destroying the natural resources our civilization needs for survival while our global population balloons. We have simultaneously destabilized the climate which our civilization rose under and depends upon. These are our absolute failures, the consequences of which are coming, even if things still seem normal in your nice rural region for now.
In my rural area everything is still normal. The positive rate for Covid-19 is about 5%, with no deaths. People that I spoke with, that got really sick and then recovered from it, made is sound a lot like the Hong Kong flu from the Woodstock era, but a bit worse.