08-17-2021, 12:01 AM
Imagine how the CMOs are sleeping now, Cookie.
When we had zero Covid, we were in the eye of the hurricane. It was pretty sweet. Now, the hurricane is moving and the eye of the storm is moving away from us rapidly, no matter how much we chase it.
The business/cafe/restaurant/pub owners will finally get the certainty they've craved. No more cycles of going into lockdown and coming out of it, rinse & repeat. The bad news is that the constant solution is now going to be permanent lockdowns or restrictions until vaccination rates approach 80%. That'll take months. I think the owners will look back on the cycle of closings & re-openings as the good ol' days.
What is the alternative? As EB has pointed out, the health system is starting to fail even though Victoria only has 20 odd new cases a day. So how is it going to cope when we have around 500 cases as in NSW?
"Letting it rip" will cause carnage. You can guarantee all the people who quaffed wine in the parks a few days ago and who are now whingeing about mental fatigue will be screaming for action once we again have reports of people being turned away from hospital to die at home or refrigerator trucks being used to store the dead. When one of their wine-guaffing mates or, worse, his or her child, dies of Covid, they'll be looking for someone to blame and it won't be their circle of friends.
When we had zero Covid, we were in the eye of the hurricane. It was pretty sweet. Now, the hurricane is moving and the eye of the storm is moving away from us rapidly, no matter how much we chase it.
The business/cafe/restaurant/pub owners will finally get the certainty they've craved. No more cycles of going into lockdown and coming out of it, rinse & repeat. The bad news is that the constant solution is now going to be permanent lockdowns or restrictions until vaccination rates approach 80%. That'll take months. I think the owners will look back on the cycle of closings & re-openings as the good ol' days.
What is the alternative? As EB has pointed out, the health system is starting to fail even though Victoria only has 20 odd new cases a day. So how is it going to cope when we have around 500 cases as in NSW?
"Letting it rip" will cause carnage. You can guarantee all the people who quaffed wine in the parks a few days ago and who are now whingeing about mental fatigue will be screaming for action once we again have reports of people being turned away from hospital to die at home or refrigerator trucks being used to store the dead. When one of their wine-guaffing mates or, worse, his or her child, dies of Covid, they'll be looking for someone to blame and it won't be their circle of friends.