The virus is really bad but not as bad as it was first feared because a lot of people are asymptomatic and younger/healthier people have dealt with it quite well. And now there's new treatments that can help reduce the fatality rates.
I'm not saying everybody should get back to normal life as if everything was just fine but until there is a certified vaccine ready to be distributed globally, we'll have to learn to live WITH the virus. Even if all goes well, we could be talking about 2 years in total to be absolutely protected against this crap so at some point, there's no choice but get things back on track, just have be the most careful you can be. Older people and people who have health problems should stay in confinement to begin with. It really sucks for them but that's the reality we're facing. Testing methods have to improve and be faster. Every place should have ultraviolet temperature guns to check on people. So many things, but it's a process. The whole point is you have to get the economy back on track. The last few months were a learning period, hopefully we learned enough to be able to be responsible (something that you can't trust everyone to be so no matter what we'll have to deal with these people anyway). If they get crowds in sports or any other type of events, they'll have to apply some kind of distanciation. They have to be well organized and people have to be held responsible. Selling less tickets is better than nothing. Anyway, we'll see
Yeah screw vulnerable people let's just ship them to some island and let them remain there while we go about our business!
Truly despise this kind of rhetoric.
Also, let me tell you that it's not just frail 80 year-olds this affects seriously. I've had it as a healthy 40-something and it put me on my ass for several weeks considering how it seemingly affects every organ and especially leaves your lungs weak and scarred.
There's no doubt if you just let this virus run free through the general populace it will destroy the health system, and then the economy, such as it will likely happen in the US over the summer due to their idiot leader not taking it seriously.
And sure, many people get it and they deal with it relatively easily, and some are asymptomatic, but those people are also the ones most likely to go out and spread Covid to less fortunate individuals, especially with loose confinement measures in heavily affected areas(hello Florida).
We did a really good job in Canada by remaining patient until numbers drastically reduced and are now carefully reopening things. Had our leaders thought like you we'd still be losing a ton of people to the disease, and the workforce would be increasingly decimated. This is proof that putting people before the economy is ultimately the best solution, and obviously the most humane one.
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