12-04-2020, 03:03 AM
(12-04-2020, 01:59 AM)jeffster Wrote: Dr. Wang is asking for federal and provincial help to help out more with virus control to avoid going into the lockdown. And I am really hoping we can avoid lockdown. Really we need to be able to get through the next 10-12 week or so, and by then, hopefully front-line medical workers, and high risk individuals, will have had their 2nd vaccination and we can start getting back to normal maybe by April, as in, drop to code orange or better.
I think too, once President-Elect Biden in inaugurated on January 20, he's setting up some rules for the population to follow until enough people are vaccinated. This includes wearing masks for 100 days (so until April 30). Hopefully at that time, our Federal government will finally come to terms and make some universal rules.
Next summer should generally be better if we can keep the numbers from exploding too much until then.
I've usually said that I rate Canada's response as a D-. I was just talking to a NZer who lives in the US and is back in NZ for a few weeks. I realized that Canada's per-capita death rate is about half of the US's. (Specifically, 1/2.5th). Which is, well, less than half, but a lot higher than it should be.
I haven't thought too much about the interval between, say, January and September-Octoberish, where I expect enough vaccines to have been dispensed. (If you think about just the vaccination process, it is a lot of vaccines that are going to need to be injected!) But even after the health care workers are protected, it just means that we keep health care capacity at what it is now, minus burnout; it doesn't have a significant effect on the number of people who would otherwise get it.