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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
In other words, people should get vaccinated. Problem solved.
There will still be some people who fall ill, and an even lower proportion who need hospital treatment and some will die.
But other viruses and other types of illness do that, too. We mustn’t get this out of proportion. Further restrictions will not be necessary unless something very significant arises in the meantime.
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Can't work out if I clicked into the oldest posts in the thread or the newest one.
The problem with waiting until "something significant" happens rather than a proportionate measure to something that falls below the threshold of "significant" is that your response then is lockdown because it's too late. Fundamentally, you didn't think the original outbreak was significant enough and here we are, 150 000 deaths later despite lockdowns. Who knows what it'd have been without them.
Once you're in actual lockdown that's it for months as the road to easing restrictions gets trodden a further time.
Sensible measures should be considered to prevent lockdown if cases are seen to rise exponentially. Hospitalisations and deaths only follow, albeit at a lower rate than previously.
Without sensible measures people will only stay home themselves and not spend money in any case. City centres will never recover.