01-15-2022, 09:41 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-15-2022, 09:42 PM by danbrotherston.)
(01-15-2022, 09:34 PM)tomh009 Wrote:(01-15-2022, 07:53 PM)ac3r Wrote: So, isn't it better to start focusing on how we can protect the more vulnerable people out there by both protecting and isolating them (aka a so called "Iron Ring"), then allow the healthy people to begin to return to normality so we can have more people and resources to pool together to improve things?
So, let's assume we want to take this strategy. We build virus firewalls around hospitals, retirement homes, hospices, urgent care centres and other medical offices. That's a lot of firewalls, but let's assume it can all be done.
But, how do we protect and isolate the elderly people living alone? The homeless people? The indigenous? The chronically ill or immunodeficient that are still living independently? We can't build protections around everyone's residence, let alone their workplaces.
I understand the concept of what you are proposing, but I don't see how we would be able to make it work in practice. Is there a country out there that has successfully implemented this that you could point to as an example?
Even this is absurd...okay, let's build a wall around hospitals. Alright, anyone working there must isolate, and their families, and now anyone they come into contact, we need special schools, special grocery stores, special post offices, special jobs for their spouses....we need a whole new society.
It simply doesn't work...we are a society, this is what people mean by "we are in this together". The only people who can get away are those who can afford to build themselves their own private society.