Re:‘Housing in ‘07 wasn’t a bubble” is a true statement that...
by sofixa on Friday April 08, 2022 @05:57AM
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What about the teachers and all other staff at the school? Or everyone those children will run into, like parents, siblings, grandparents, friends, etc.? Even if the majority of them are healthy and under 45, some won't be and would require hospital treatment. And that's a severely limiting factor on how much Covid a health system can bare - in many countries that was stretched to and beyond it's limits. Now thankfully the latest variants are much more benign so that's not really a serious risk, for now.
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Re:‘Housing in ‘07 wasn’t a bubble” is a true statement that...
by logifail on Friday April 08, 2022 @08:17AM
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> What about the teachers and all other staff at the school? Even if the majority of them are healthy and under 45, some won't be and would require hospital treatment.
Isn't this why we developed vaccines? To reduce the risk of serious illness?
"Every year around 600,000 people die in the UK. The Imperial College team estimates that if the virus went completely unchallenged, around 80% of people would be infected and there would be around 510,000 deaths.
So, roughly speaking, we might say that getting COVID-19 is like packing a year’s worth of risk into a week or two. Which is why it’s important to spread out the infections to avoid the NHS being overwhelmed."[0]
Once we've vaccinated a large proportion of the at-risk groups, then the risk of overwhelming the hospitals drops. Then life can, and should, get back to normal.
[0] https://wintoncentre.maths.cam.ac.uk/news/how-much-normal-ri...