07-16-2021, 10:25 AM
(07-15-2021, 09:08 PM)ac3r Wrote: Cases are going up, but the key metric to keep an eye on is hospitalizations (acute care and ICU) and deaths. With so many people vaccinated, rising cases should not be that big of a concern as it once was so long as people are not overwhelming hospitals. We can only keep doing this close, reopen, close, reopen thing going for so long before we start to do even greater disastrous damage to things like economics, education, trust in governance and healthcare as well as our own sanity.I did say this pretty much a week ago when tom was mentioning the cases in Britain. Unfortunately it appears hospitalizations and ICU admissions are continuing to rise significantly. I also agree wholeheartedly that this open close open close cycle cant go on forever. There has to be some other plan but I dont know what the answer is at this point.