EasilyAmused
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Not really since it is still limited to two households which I struggle to understand....
That's here the arbitrary part - "professional sport" is declared simply as "essential" and allowed to continue.
Yes, two. Let’s give it a month or so and see what sort of impact it has.
We know that fully vaccinated people will not die and will not get seriously ill. We don’t know (yet) to what extend they may pass on the virus, to others who are not vaccinated in the household of someone vaccinated.
If we learned anything from the phased reopening of society last summer, it’s that accelerating it is not a good idea.
What’s the rush?
Sun dried tomatoes and moisturiser and hair dye and thousands of other things aren't essential but we can still buy them. There are lots of things that aren't essential but we have to function as a society and try to reduce the collateral damage caused by the irrational fear around this virus.And the GAA is essential how exactly?
So we'll have more people moving around, travelling outside their 5Km and generally mixing.I would even let personal services open for vaccinated over 70's as I can see the impact of something really simple like not having her hair done is having on my elderly mother's general mental health.
We were having days of 6000 cases with restrictions.So we'll have more people moving around, travelling outside their 5Km and generally mixing.
I think that once we have vaccinated everyone over 60 we should open everything up. We'll have vaccinated over 90% of the people who are likely to end up in hospital or die. We have one of the best funded health services in the world. It's time they stopped making excuses for their waste and inefficiency and sorted themselves out because their organisational incompetence is the reason we are the most locked down country in the EU.
So do we stay in lockdown forever?Furthermore, it’s generally agreed that B117 is a very different beast from last years Covid-19.
Little is known about P1, except that it’s bad. 10% of the cases in France are P1. Their hospitals are at capacity, their schools are closing, and they’re going into lockdown again.
What of other variants like South Africa, Nigeria, Bristol and California? These are the new ones we know about, what about the new variants we don’t know about (yet)?
The "what if" is a new variant that doesn't respond to the vaccine so we are always chasing another vaccine and always 6-12 months away from everything being okay.Herd immunity.
Which goes back to the fact that we should stop vaccinating people under the age of 50 or 45 until all the older people in the rest of the world are vaccinated.In six months time most of the western world should have herd immunity within their borders.
The problem is new variants elsewhere. This could rumble on indefinitely in non Zero Covid countries.
That means perpetual lockdowns as new variants appear. It means a hard border (one with high walls) with the UK.BTW, Zero Covid means zero tolerance to Covid.
Again; New Zealand is 4,000Km from its nearest neighbour. It's up there with the international space station when it comes to being far away from the next guy. It is the most isolated country in the world with a temperate climate.There is no lockdown in New Zealand at present. There has been no national lockdown there since August. There are no masks. There is no social distancing. Life is normal except that the ports and airports are free of international travellers, and 26 families are grieving loved ones lost to Covid-19.
Every few weeks a case is found. That case is traced and isolated, and there is a five day lockdown.
Again; New Zealand is 4,000Km from its nearest neighbour.
Vietnam the police State and Isle of Man the tiny island that doesn't share a land border with another country?Yes it is. How about Isle of Man?
And Vietnam?
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