The choice has never been between "living life as before" and "living with restrictions".
The choice is between living with slight inconveniences that we can choose ourselves, and living with impacts that the virus forces on us.
reuters.com/world/europe/d…
The choice is between living with slight inconveniences that we can choose ourselves, and living with impacts that the virus forces on us.
reuters.com/world/europe/d…
In Norway, which is much less badly affected, hospitals across the country are cancelling some elective surgery that requires an overnight stay, because of a lack of hospital beds.
Meanwhile, at St. Olav's Hospital in Trondheim they've just introduced a requirement for outpatients to wear masks in common areas. And for staff to wear masks if they cannot maintain a safe distance from patients (it's airborne!!!).
Was that really too great a sacrifice before?
Was that really too great a sacrifice before?
Yes, life has to go on as normally as possible, but why the **** can't we:
Give HCWs and patients appropriate PPE to protect against airborne infection. And require them to wear it.
Improve ventilation/filtration in high-risk settings like hospitals, schools, some factories.
Give HCWs and patients appropriate PPE to protect against airborne infection. And require them to wear it.
Improve ventilation/filtration in high-risk settings like hospitals, schools, some factories.
Provide financial incentives and encouragement for all other locations with potential for superspreading events – offices, gyms, restaurants, bars, swimming pools – to upgrade their HVAC systems in order to reduce the risk of transmission of airborne pathogens.
Provide proper financial and practical support to people who are sick or are very close contacts of confirmed cases.
Give consistent messaging on the above. And explain risks: indoors, more people, poor ventilation, no filtration, longer time, sport, singing, talking loudly etc.
Give consistent messaging on the above. And explain risks: indoors, more people, poor ventilation, no filtration, longer time, sport, singing, talking loudly etc.
And at the end of our collective European exercise of pretending Covid doesn't exist anymore - just like last summer - most of us have ended up with more intrusive restrictions than the ones we couldn't endure a second longer a few months ago, because we were so sick of Covid.
Sorry about the rant, but I'm a tiny bit tired of us going round and round the same roundabout, and always taking a wrong turn that leads down a dead end, and then returning to the roundabout, doing a few more laps, and then taking the same wrong turn again.
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