@MissChanandlerBong22
We either open now, or this time next year.
What is all this talk of ‘opening’? Shops, restaurants, and bars were all open yesterday. Nightclubs are the only thing that are ‘open’ today that weren’t yesterday.
@Im2sexyforthissite from my selfish point of view it's got less to do with a 99% survival rate than it has with a projected 100000 people with the disease each day.
If we just carry on with the current 48,000 people catching Covid each day (unlikely), that's 480,000 people quarantining in the 10 days that patient number one had to isolate. In amongst that 480,000 will be people like the chef/waitress in my local restaurant that has now had to shut up shop for 10 days as they don't have enough staff to safely operate. It will include doctors, nurses, retail staff, transport workers, dockers.
It doesn't take a genius to work out that, given enough cases isolating, shops may have to do shorter hours, GP surgeries may be short staffed so your prescription may be late being dealt with or the appointment you did manage to get will be cancelled. Operations will have to be cancelled if the surgeon contracts Covid or the ward nurses start to fall sick as people can't cover two jobs. Some teachers may not return to school for the first few weeks of September which will disrupt the kids (and the parents if those children are too young to be left alone).
It's not the deaths or even, to some extent, the numbers in hospital (although that'll cause problems as a nurse can't be in two places at once so bang goes your operation again). It's the rising numbers that can't work for 10 days if they catch it. Whether they feel sick or not they can't go to work. Which means a bus cancelled, a boat not unloaded, queues at the supermarket as they don't have enough tills covered. Not huge issues if it's one or two members of staff for a couple of weeks. But if this sky rockets on a rolling basis it won't be just one or two members of staff.
Maybe a mask doesn't make much difference. Maybe it makes no difference. But if cases sky rocket because we've stopped social distancing, opened everything up and dropped masks all on the same day, how do we decide which one of those pushed the numbers over the edge? How do we decide what to reintroduce? The only option is to then reintroduce the lot.
The vaccine should stop you becoming seriously ill or dying. Great. It doesn't stop you getting the disease. Which means you still can't go to work. The business you work for will be without you for 10 days. Fine if you can work from home. But transport workers, medical staff, teachers, retail workers factory workers, et all can't and we rely on them to keep us fed, safe or to move us around.
That's the problem.