| RolStoppable said: Germany alone has three million people among its risk groups who have not been vaccinated after more than one year of vaccination being available. Hospitalization rates have been significantly higher among the unvaccinated; that should be true globally. People in risk groups who still belong to the workforce should have been the only ones to get the benefit of continued pay instead of everyone who wasn't in a system-relevant job; that would have saved billions of money. Way too many measures were issued with a one-size-fits-all approach under the guise of required solidarity. Self-responsibility may not work, but government-issued measures don't work either. The catch is that the latter cause more collateral damage, such as educational deficits among children due to school closings, businesses having trouble to operate due to people who could still work not being allowed to due to positive tests. I hope you recognize that New Zealand is an island. |
I hope you recognize Earth is an island ;)
Yes, unfortunately targeted measures are beyond our human capabilities. Or rather, every time there are targeted measures we end up debating about the cut off points for many decades... We couldn't even really close the border despite it being closed forever. Half measures don't work and half measures is what causes the collateral damage.
Kids would have been much worse off without all the measures. Not fun to bury your grandparents as a kid, have friends whose parents died if not having to see one of your own parents on a ventilator. So easy to forget how bad it got in Lombardy, Italy. Or how oxygen trucks were raided in India when the delta wave got out of control. You think that kind of ptsd is better for kids than educational deficits?
Be glad you can complain about the minor setbacks that can be overcome. A lot of damage from critical covid-19 cases will last a lot longer and death is permanent.
