(10-27-2021, 04:51 AM)Thryleon date Wrote:Most alarming, is that Israel released the shackles, at the beginning of their summer, with almost 0 positives per day.Agreed, the next big issue might not be COVID directly but the indirect overload of hospitals and health care staff as we open up. I suspect like yourself the worst is potentially ahead of us, a lot hangs in the balance subject to the new treatments because immunity it seems won't be everlasting.
Its taken some time for things to get to a pretty awkward spot for them, but awkward nonetheless.
The worst of this is STILL very much ahead of us, and I keep telling people (despite whether or not they want to listen) that how we treat people during this very testing time, is almost as important as the pandemic response.
If society decends to levels where the common person "couldnt give a stuff" about others, then we are in all sorts of trouble COVID or 0 COVID.
As I've said several times, we can open up but we must still respect the safe basics, and I fear it will descend into a free for all.
Japan is also a nice model to monitor, it has basically preceded what has happened in NSW and Vic and now enters winter, they are not confident at all and have a large chunk of the population vaccinated. A population that is far far more compliant than here! :o
Bejing has locked down millions even though they are nearly all vaccinated with Sinovax, note we are about to approve Sinovax locally.
These are significant tells!
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"

