kv wrote: ↑Mon Sep 06, 2021 7:45 pm
I'm so confused full on holiday...full stadiums life is normal...1000 a day dying of covid....did the gov just give up? Never gonna hit herd fuck it? Strange times...
I don't know what the alternative is. There are vaccines available. Some estimates have 30% of the US as having already had covid, with re-infection rare (so far).
Vaccinated people aren't the ones dying en masse. I get that we want to keep hospitals from being overwhelmed, but where's the balance? It's like there are sharks in the water, we have shark repellent, but we're worried about letting anyone swim at all because of the assholes that refuse to use it. I mean, at some point...
Additionally, a lot of experts think two things:
1. Delta is receding in the areas where it first hit (like my State, Missouri, where numbers are definitely trending down).
2. This is never going away. There is no herd immunity. It will become endemic, and we will be dealing with it forever. But, as we continue opportunity for boosters, develop more treatments, and re-infections are milder, it will not be the show stopper it was. And if we're really lucky, it will mutate in to something far less harmful. But covid-19 isn't going to just disappear.
So at some point, people have to have the opportunity to live. There were only 2-300 estimated covid cases to come out of Lollapalooza. Remember when everyone was losing their minds about it?
We can have a "new normal" where we live life again with risk mitigation factored in. But we'll probably never be totally risk free.