Yokemate of Keyboards
Posts: 2053 from 2003/6/4
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amifrog schrieb:
I'm quite sure it would be much cheaper long term to 'isolate' and pamper the elderly and endangered parts of the population in 4star hotels&full service instead of shutting the whole economy down enterely and wait another 8+ months until almost everybody got it eventually and we can go on with our lives.
This approach does not work out. Mainly for two reasons.
#1 SARS CoV-2 is dangerous for all the population, not only the elderely or known risk patients. With a hight infection rate within the "safer group" hospitals will fill up quckly and the health system wiull break down.
#2 elderly people and other risk groups need some care. The care personal does not "live on an island".
If the virus is spread within a society you cannot warrant that the caring and health seervice people do not get infected and eventually bring the viris to the specially protected ppl.
In summary: That approach does not work out. The only way is ti minimize the spreading of the virus among the _entire society_.
And that needs testing, isolation of infected ppl, social isolation and hygienic discipline (hand washing, self discipline not to touch into your face and face masks in public to protect others from your sputum/saliva).
We need to win time. Progress is made on curing CoViD-19 and research on vaccination, too. Very important is the availability of a cheap and fast test system.
But it needs time and the health system must not crash!
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