COVID MATH

1. So, here's the thing I don't understand.

If hospital and ICU space is nearly completely maxed out...

Omicron is still spreading, and since we can't calculate the r number, we don't really know how much of it there is...
2. And, in that context we send kids, -- 0% of whom are vaccinated, if they are 0 to 5 years of age, with only ~4% of those 5 to 12 double vaxxed -- back to daycare and school, knowing a certain percentage of them will be infected...
3. And, circulating about, are all the adults, who would otherwise be home, needed to operate schools and daycares -- without vaccine mandates, being made priority for boosters, or N95s --, a percentage of whom will be infected...
4. And, also circulating about are all the parents of these children; parents who don't work from home, a certain percentage of whom will also be infected...
5. Given how stretched out our hospitals are at the moment...

Where do we send all these children, educational staff, and essential workers, when the percentage of them who will be infected, do get infected?

Who cares for them?

Is anybody thinking?!?
6. Why are we doing this?

Maybe everything will be fine, but what if not it is not?

Why are we not, at least, playing the odds on the side of having overreacted, considering **we have no 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 margin?!?

#Enraged

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