When do we get back concerts and full sports stadiums and real life?
In 6 months when a vaccine is out? But almost nobody will have it. In 12 months when a vaccine is out and 10% of the population has taken it? What about in 24 months when there will be enough for everyone in the USA but more than half the population won't take it?
What is the endgame here?
What will it take for the government to give me permission to hang out with 10 or more people sometime before 2023?
When those in favor of the greatest restrictions lose their seats to those in favor of loosening restrictions. Regardless of which path is best for public health, it is obvious that public patience is wearing thin and will continue to do so. Eventually people will be willing to wait no longer and will replace those who are standing in the way of resuming their lives. Screams of "you're killing people" will increasingly fall upon deaf ears. Messages of "this is the new normal" and "we're never going back to the way things were" were terrible mistakes. Fear can only rule for so long before someone else offers hope and uses that to win.
Of course if people supporting either path decide to get violent and go some road other than democracy, all bets are off on how it will turn out. Doubt that happens though as much as some might fantasize about it. It's almost all downside for everyone involved.
Very fair. We should just bite the bullet of Covid. The goal at the beginning was just to prevent overwhelming medical capacity. No one ever signed up to save everyone at the expense of everyone else!
> Very fair. We should just bite the bullet of Covid.
I'm sure you'll still feel that way when it's someone from your family "biting the bullet" of COVID.
The vaccines are coming. It will be months, not years, for them to be widely available to anyone who wants one. The fact that people simply cannot put their lives on hold for 6 months for the greater good here is just mindblowing to me.
Or Madagascar, or Iceland! Having the foresight to occupy an isolated location with a small population is really paying dividends. All those incompetent countries, with their highly interconnected economies and lack of natural barriers... Real 4d chess, keeping their GDPs low all these years - but they won, not just internet points - but maybe a monopoly on the world's supply of elderly!
I've always assumed that the real "end" of the covid era would come from testing, not from a vaccine. As testing gets faster, cheaper and more prevalent I would expect large gatherings to eventually become safe again.
The real dream would be a covid 19 breathalyzer test that you can make somebody blow on the way into an event or party, guaranteeing that everybody on the plane would be disease free
In 6 months when a vaccine is out? But almost nobody will have it. In 12 months when a vaccine is out and 10% of the population has taken it? What about in 24 months when there will be enough for everyone in the USA but more than half the population won't take it?
What is the endgame here?
What will it take for the government to give me permission to hang out with 10 or more people sometime before 2023?