Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

[vivster]

John2290 said:

vivster said:
Looks like the biggest hit European countries are all going down. Lifting restrictions slowly after Easter seem feasible now. Who knows, maybe I'll be able to go to work again in May.

It's a bit more complicated than that, we can't simply go back to the way it was cause if we end up here again it's twice the pain. That can't be gambled. We'll be waiting on systems to be set up for rolling out again and those systems are going to be painful and it'll seem extremly unfair and uneven between people. If you have already had the virus, you'll be going back if you're lucky, if not you could end up after the last wave or with the last batch of vaccine roll out. I'm not sure we can do this at all unless something changes in the data...  can you imagine being the last poor fucker to be quarantined for 24 months, people can't take that and there is no other ways ouy that don't involve disaster. 

That's not how things will happen. It's simply unfeasible to wait until everyone had the disease or until there is a vaccine. Some restrictions can be easily lowered, not that current restrictions are even that hard. One thing that could be done is mandatory masks. People can leave their homes on their own risk while lowering their potential to infect others significantly.

We don't have to wait until every single person is either immune or vaccinated so that life can start to happen again. It just needs to be suppressed enough, exactly like we do it with every other infectious disease. Mark my words, life will go on as usual long before even half of the population is vaccinated or immune.

edit: before people go literal nazi on me again, with "life as usual" I include life as usual with light restrictions, such as public distancing, mandatory face masks in crowded places or even regular mandatory tests.

Last edited by vivster - on 06 April 2020