Re:Pfizer board member suggests end to mask, vaccine mandates
by reaperducer on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @07:01PM
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I'd say the answer to that should be determined by the hospital capacity. If a region has sufficient hospital capacity that it would not be overwhelmed by the increase in COVID cases among the unvaccinated go ahead and lift most restrictions.
I don't think you're breaking any new ground here. In the two regions where I've lived since the outbreak, hospital capacity was already a factor in what precautions were mandated.
But the spread of disease is a lot more complicated than sick/not sick. It has an affect on society much farther and wider than hospital capacity, and that should not be the sold yardstick by which we measure our reaction.
I don't think you're breaking any new ground here. In the two regions where I've lived since the outbreak, hospital capacity was already a factor in what precautions were mandated.
But the spread of disease is a lot more complicated than sick/not sick. It has an affect on society much farther and wider than hospital capacity, and that should not be the sold yardstick by which we measure our reaction.