There is hardly any threat of that at this point. At least not in areas with high vaccination rates.
I feel like that was always BS and just a scam to rationalize our poorly resourced yet highly paid hospitals. Wait times at ER were always bad, the pandemic just made it slightly more bad. The underlying problem was always there.
What about the death rate for people who can't be vaccinated?
Not everyone survives. That's life. You can't expect society to shut down to protect the tiny percentage of people who can't be vaccinated or are immunocompromised. That's never been an expectation of society before so why would it be one now?
It has been. The reason these people survive is because vaccines are required for everyone as a child (in the US). Without that they would catch mumps, measles, polio, etc.
And wearing a mask inside public spaces is not shutting down society.
>vaccines are required for everyone as a child (in the US)
Do continue please
They’re free to lock down indefinitely, if they want.