You know, maybe its an unpopular opinion but here it goes
The people are as much to blame for this as the government. Now, of course, I dont mean people like us, I mean people that take advantage of current event's insanity so they can get benefits.
An example of that is the insanity that they seem to be considering now where I live. Online Medical Certificates.
Thats right, you dont even gotta go to the doctor anymore to get one of these so you can get a basically paid mini vacation, you can just print one of those, write down your symptoms and there it is, apparently your boss (aka me) will be forced to accept this because you are feeling a little bit under the weather (mostly because of your shitty lifestyle but hey, you can pin anything on the virus nowadays).
Apparently this is done to avoid hospitals being full, not of covid victims necessarily, but of people trying to get a certificate from their doctors over minor symptoms like a small cough. While before your doctor would recommend some meds to decrease symptoms so you can go to work normally and only give you a certificate if it was clear that you really needed to rest, now doctors are told to just handle these certificates like candy. It got to the point doctors are pretty much saying for you to not even bother and to just get it online.
I hope I dont gotta explain why this is an absurd to a hard working businesses owner such as myself, right? This is a system comically easy to exploit, it borderline runs on the honor system. There is no penalty for misuse of this because if you claim bullshit, the idiotic worker can just claim he is feeling "bad" and it "MIGHT" be Covid (because anything is possibly Covid now).
This will kill produtivity and, now with talks with returning measures to reduce the number of clients that can frequent businesses after the curfew (because the last 2 years have been evidence these have worked wonders...), I legit am having a hard time being calm. They are killing us and they are getting away with it. And worst of all, our own workers are taking advantage of that.
Hence why I consider the people taking advantage of this (not just in the example I mentioned) so they can keep living their lazy degenerate life styles of staying at home, eating whatever they want, doing whatever they want while getting paid for it (while my business struggle to maintain productivity because vital members of the crew can just leave without warning because he felt a bit bad, probably from getting piss ass drunk during the holidays and is still going through hangover symptoms), just as bad as the government that is implementing it. Its idiotic and it will kill businesses even more (as long there are no competitors for mega corps at the end, they dont care) and the people dont care, they can just be NEETs unofficially while people like me just cant make an honest living anymore.
I knew 2022 would be worse but we arent even 10 days in yet. THIRD FUCKING YEAR OF THIS MASS PSYCHOSIS!! GOD, WHEN WILL IT END?!