durojean
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Depend what you mean by loosen up.
If you barely have cases...I’m pretty sure everyone is doing theirs thing like they were before...like some was doing here some weeks ago. Wearing a mask and washing your hand is not supposed to be a problem.
It is not the common flu. A couple of doctor went public with that kind of statement...but the vast vast majority, especially the one holding credibility aren’t comparing covid to the flu. Maybe we wake up in 20 years with 10-20-30% of the person infected with big respiratory problem (plausible)...imagine the cost of that. Maybe everything will be fine...it’s too soon right now.
Right now, here, the region affected are smaller area that did not take it very seriously (which I understand because they did not got hit in the 1st wave) . If Covid spread everywhere...the health system won’t be able to take care of everything..it’s not only about death...but ICU and hospitalization...that is a pretty basic equation.
About the economy...we were one of the country in best shape financially (debt/PIB). We can take that hit. Canada had much much more debt during the war.
the health system won’t be able to take care of everything
I feel like that's the biggest issue. I thought we were confined to give breathing room to the health system so that they would be ready for wave 2.
Problem, even with a slow summer, we could not correct the system enough so that it would be ready so we need to protect it no matter what. I feel like maybe we did not invest in the right places. All the graph shows that everyone will end up getting covid. We are merely trying to protect a bad system so that it does not become catastrophic. A system that in time not of covid is 140% overloaded.