Commentary As we enter 2022, we approach the two-year anniversary of the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s quite shocking for me; I was 16 at the start of this and I’m now old enough to be able to vote. Despite this gap of time having passed, it feels as though we haven’t progressed. A new variant arrives and we, the youth, are told we can’t go back to school, we must go to online learning, we must mask up. At the start of the pandemic, any of these demands seemed completely reasonable. Back then we lacked data, therapeutics, and a vaccine—there was only ambiguity around COVID-19. Now, two years later, we know a lot more about the virus. Most notable for young people is that we are neither affected by COVID nor the main transmission vectors. A December 2021 study from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control on the …