Thread by @NjbBari3

Dear @VictorianCHO

There is a purpose to “prolonging the pain”.

Increased availability of quality care for COVID-19 patients and non-COVID patients. Better drugs, earlier treatment, earlier rehabilitation. 🧵

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Maintenance of cohorting of airborne disease, so that vulnerable patients can access healthcare without massively increased risk of death.

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Time to advocate to government for N95 or similar masks in the community to be manufactured and supplied for free to those that need it.

Gradual improvement in airborne disease management infrastructure such as HEPA in classrooms and workplaces.

Maintenance of supply lines of food, fuel etc. without putting essential workers and their families at increased risk in their workplaces.

As time goes by, in this prolonged agony, the interventions gradually get stronger, people get more confident in their ability to manage day to day tasks without getting frequent infections, and better therapeutics and vaccines may arrive.

Possibly the most important reason to continue to work hard to flatten the curve is to help vulnerable adults and children avoid a premature death.

That is what #LetItRip means to them. Imprisonment in their own houses forever, followed by an early death.

If one truly believes that COVID-19 must be tolerated as a persistent feature of our lives from now on, clearly the only reasonable solution is to tolerate it at lower circulating levels. We need to buy time to develop medications to really nip an infection in the bud->

This is absolutely critical to help reduce the severity and prevalence of #LongCovid #LongCovidKids

Again… there IS a purpose to prolonging the agony, and not only that, #LetItRip will not shorten the pain. Rather, the first gash was deep, and more will be coming.

I know we are all exhausted, but we must regroup, go through the scenario and label the problems again, and tackle them anew, with hope and energy.

#CovidIsAirborne but that doesn’t mean we give up. We know what to do now.

Let’s do it.