a bit more
A bit more until the virus decides to go away? Or a bit more until they invent a non-leaky vaccine? Or a bit more like when the cows come home? Because that's what you are talking about. A bit more forever.
A bit more until the virus decides to go away? Or a bit more until they invent a non-leaky vaccine? Or a bit more like when the cows come home? Because that's what you are talking about. A bit more forever.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/08/16/joel-valdez...
> Man shot 6 times waits more than a week for surgery after hospital is overwhelmed by covid
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When our hospitals are full, we should be cautious. When our hospitals empty out, we can open up a bit more. This obviously is location-dependent (and higher-vaccinated areas can afford to open up more).
But the absolute goal in every location is to keep hospitals functioning, and the relative stress levels of doctors / nurses at a reasonable level. I know in my state, we've been having to employ student nurses before they've graduated, so that there's enough staff around.
As long as hospitals feel the need for emergency measures, we need to be precautious and doing what we can to clamp down on the sickness.
(like, you wouldn't reduce vaccination effort just because the load on hospitals eased up, high levels of vaccination is a reasonable goal unto itself)
Obesity/poor diet require an incredible amount of healthcare resources. Government subsidies of corn play no small factor. Ending subsidies for unhealthy foods is completely within our control unlike infections from new diseases. If we wanted to free up hospital resources we could have done that a year ago with a simple sugar/high fructose syrup tax.
a bit more until there are no more infectable hosts, and a variant spills over from our species of succeptability to another of succeptability that will allow greater transmission, wash rinse repeat. this or very similar has happened 6 or perhaps 7 times as evidenced by the endemic corona virus we all experience on a regular basis