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Nordics already tried not caring about infections but rather hospitalizations. That didn’t help for long. The simple reality seems to be that too many sick at t

Nordics already tried not caring about infections but rather hospitalizations. That didn’t help for long. The simple reality seems to be that too many sick at the same time not only fills up the healthcare system, it also punches holes into the labor force. New people to work in hospitals isn’t enough because the amount of ones leaving are making the net effect zero. The disease and overwhelming numbers of people sick burned them out. Nothing that I can say is new. Either we slow burn through this with restrictions while keeping a medium level of services available to society or burn fast while allowing many services to simply fail to deliver. I for one would rather not visit a late night bar for months rather than worry about where I could get food to cook at home for weeks. If you didn’t experience the empty shelves due panic buying in the beginning of covid then I wouldn’t wish it on people. As a person who also needs regular medication I don’t want to think how many weeks worth of meds I need my local pharmacies have left if logistics chains would suffer from shockwaves of too many workers out sick at the same time.

gitanovic 5y ago
That was in a very different scenario: the beginning of the pandemics with a much more dangerous variant of the virus, and nobody vaccinated. So I don't think that what the Nordics attempted is applicable at current situation
- pupppet 5y ago
  There’s still enough unvaccinated for the weaker strains to be a problem. Plus delta is still out there.
  - gitanovic 5y ago
    For which country are you talking about? The picture is different in different countries. In my opinion countries who reached 80% of vaccinated people should remove all the restrictions, but again, this is just my opinion, and I don't have any decisional power over it.
  - nradov 5y ago
    Delta is nearly extinct. https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#variant-proportions https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#variant-proportion...
- originalvichy 5y ago
  You misunderstand me. I'm talking about right now. In the beginning the plan was to squash case counts and since border crossing was limited heavily it was feasible. Ever since vaccine uptake reached high levels the case counts were not indicative of societal danger due to vaccines decreasing the amount of people ending up there per case. The raw number of hospitalised is still high though due to the 10x increase in daily cases due to the new variant (delta was already doing a good job) and health centres and hospitals are filled to the brim with people who are feeling unwell enough that they use health care resources.

gitanovic 5y ago

That was in a very different scenario: the beginning of the pandemics with a much more dangerous variant of the virus, and nobody vaccinated. So I don't think that what the Nordics attempted is applicable at current situation

pupppet 5y ago
There’s still enough unvaccinated for the weaker strains to be a problem. Plus delta is still out there.
- gitanovic 5y ago
  For which country are you talking about? The picture is different in different countries. In my opinion countries who reached 80% of vaccinated people should remove all the restrictions, but again, this is just my opinion, and I don't have any decisional power over it.
- nradov 5y ago
  Delta is nearly extinct. https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#variant-proportions https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#variant-proportion...
originalvichy 5y ago
You misunderstand me. I'm talking about right now. In the beginning the plan was to squash case counts and since border crossing was limited heavily it was feasible. Ever since vaccine uptake reached high levels the case counts were not indicative of societal danger due to vaccines decreasing the amount of people ending up there per case. The raw number of hospitalised is still high though due to the 10x increase in daily cases due to the new variant (delta was already doing a good job) and health centres and hospitals are filled to the brim with people who are feeling unwell enough that they use health care resources.