Quote Originally Posted by Fellbeast View Post
And the reason we’re not doing that molehill is because hospitals get overwhelmed with covid cases, their staff get infected, can’t work and the hospitals get even more overwhelmed. The herd immunity plan has been shelved here based mainly on that. I appreciate that Sweden this far has fared quite well on a sensible social distancing plan but their population is much thinner on the ground than the U.K., outside of Helsinki, their general population are much much more likely to respect and follow the rules and, even then, they’re not out of the woods yet by a long stretch either
Striking a balance is not necessarily the same as going back to how we were and letting covid run riot. I think the world has already learnt a lot from this pandemic and how to control situations and local outbreaks better, we will learn even more every week that goes by.
Happy as I am sitting here doing nothing, I am now appreciating that somehow the country and world will need to function again - or starve - because people cannot be supported to do nothing for ever.