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Unless exit criteria and offramps for restrictions are explicitly specified, they are essentially saying they want to do this forever. They're just passing the
by gandalfgeek 5y ago
Unless exit criteria and offramps for restrictions are explicitly specified, they are essentially saying they want to do this forever. They're just passing the buck to some other govt agency to tell them when it's ok to exit.
- lsy 5y agoMaybe we come back to this after the Omicron wave has subsided and see whether your fear has been realized or whether the schools have reopened? I'm not really sure what the cause for concern about indefinite restrictions is here. If a school calls a snow day, do people demand exit criteria and offramps, just in case they decide to keep the schools closed through the summer?
- refurb 5y agoNo, it's the constantly changing messages. It's at the point where nobody believes anything the politicans say. "Two week to bend the curve" - 2020 "Get the vaccine and you won't get Covid" - 2021 "The vaccines the light at the end of the tunnel, we just need 80%+ to hit herd immunity" - 2021 Now we're two full years into this and the restrictions are the same or worse than when Covid first hit. Huh?
- eli 5y agoNo. Not defining metrics in advance isn't saying it will go on forever. Not in a rapidly evolving pandemic. A lot of localities that did choose metrics-driven approaches months or years ago regretted it because they choose transmission rate or community spread as the primary driver. That number is currently through the roof, implying the most severe measures are needed for the foreseeable future. I often go for a run without a predefined route, but that doesn't mean I want to run forever.