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According to everyone else here, if we just dropped the mask requirements and social distancing, we'd have teachers lined up around the block to teach. The lev
by clutchdude 5y ago
According to everyone else here, if we just dropped the mask requirements and social distancing, we'd have teachers lined up around the block to teach.
The level of disconnect among Ms. Lance & commenters here is astounding - as if this pandemic was an exercise in to see how they were damaged in their lifestyles. Not because COVID and pandemics in general really suck for everyone.
- sharken 5y agoWhy shouldn't mask requirements, social distancing, Corona passport and all the other restrictions be a thing of the past. We're well past the first vaccine shot, this is as good as it gets. It's time to realize that.
- jjeaff 5y agoBecause many hospitals are being stretched to the brink right now. Which would not be the case if most people were vaccinated. But that ship has sailed, so we have to deal with it. Luckily, this recent wave may be on the downslope and will have naturally immunized quite a few people so that maybe the next wave will be more minor.
- sharken 5y agoThey were also stretched to the brink under the big flu seasons of the past. But back then we didn't have many tests, which meant hospital personnel would work even when they were a little sick. Not having those people around, means that capacity has to be increased, which is very hard when almost everybody gets infected with Omicron.
- jjeaff 5y agoI don't think flu has ever stretched this many hospitals this badly for so long. Flu is more seasonal and more regional in scope. Assuming COVID hospitalizations follow the same curve as COVID deaths (hospitalizations curve is actually steeper) then we are looking at an order of magnitude worse situation than flu. In other words, for the 100th time, COVID ain't the flu.