02-02-2022, 10:46 AM
(02-01-2022, 05:12 PM)jeffster Wrote:(02-01-2022, 01:29 PM)danbrotherston Wrote: I'm curious how you feel our approach has been an outlier.
I feel like we've been definitively average, less lockdowns than a lot of places, but a much stronger vaccination program, but again, with limited mandates.
As for results, certainly I think we could have done better, but we really do have to compare with top tier countries to feel bad, we did much better than average here.
Actually, it seems like almost every country has been an outlier -- but if that's the case, I guess it could be called something different.
Whatever the case, every country approached this differently, and results haven't been terrific for anyone.
The definition of outlier is different from the average, and atypical. Saying every country is an outlier doesn't make any sense.
I really don't believe there is a single person anywhere who believes we should lock down our society in perpetuity. Not one.
There might be people who are still under the belief that a strong enough lockdown could eliminate the virus, and I don't think it's possible, certainly not without physically locking certain countries off from the rest of the world. But I digress. That certainly was possible in March 2020, if the world has cooperated.
I certainly think we need to start planning strategies, but I stand by my earlier statement, the majority of the people who want "COVID over" aren't actually interested in long term strategies, they are interested in being permitted to live in their own delusion that COVID isn't a thing anymore. They'd probably object to something as mild as a poster saying "wash your hands" at this point, to say nothing of targeted masking, broadly improved ventilation, and vaccine requirements that I think we should implement, not just for COVID but for respiratory health in general.