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In my circles (Netherlands/Germany) the people that go out all got covid, the people that could stay at home didn't. Not everyone has a choice here, like if you
by Aachen 5y ago
In my circles (Netherlands/Germany) the people that go out all got covid, the people that could stay at home didn't. Not everyone has a choice here, like if you have school-age kids then you're almost guaranteed to get it through them.
Not having contact with others is obviously effective in avoiding covid and lowering hospital loads. The question is at what point hospitalization rates are low enough (from vaccinations and prior infections) that we can stop staying at home.
- dwaite 5y ago> The question is at what point hospitalization rates are low enough (from vaccinations and prior infections) that we can stop staying at home. The reality is that most of the response policy has been driven by protecting infrastructure rather than directly trying to protect people. The goal of lockdowns as well as other preventive measures is to smooth the curve and keep hospitals, food production, child care, mass transit and goods transportation, etc from collapsing. Once the estimate is that hospitals have a healthy margin of ICU space available with less restrictions, restrictions have often been immediately dropped. Personally instigated restrictions, such as someone choosing to stay at home when here is no mandate, is much more nuanced.