Claudius wrote:
Klaus wrote:
Cheers, but I have a mom who's working as a nurse. She's in her late 60s too. You should hear the absolute contempt she has for politicians who want to close down schools. Not a single person working in healthcare thinks that bullshit is a good idea, and neither do the epidemiologists.
Klaus, problem is politicians don’t want to listen to experts. And in the last few years with the rise of strongmen and social media, experts are viewed with contempt.
For sure. We're relatively lucky over here in the sense that the government has listened to the experts so far. There's a lot of public pressure on them, but they've been very clear so far that healthcare and public health is being left to the people who know what they're doing. The curve is still pretty flat compared to most countries, the IC cases and deaths aren't overwhelming yet, and most of society still maintains a degree of functionality.
I really hope we can keep this up for a while longer. Virtually everyone I know would have had their lives ruined by now if we'd just closed everything down. That's just a simple fact for people who are working class. They always get the blunt end of the stick in every crisis. How many people will die from other causes - lack of charity initiatives, deliveries, care, medicine, normal healthcare, childbirth resources, etc - when your entire economy is being managed by a skeleton crew? And how much of your ability to effectively prevent the spread do you lose when you decimate parts of the work force who not just work in hospitals but also in delivery, cleanup, biochemistry, microbiology, research, etc? They had a breakthrough regarding antibodies at Sahlgrensa in Stockholm two days ago and it might end up being a big thing. That would never have happened if everyone had been forced to shut down, or if people had taken a leave of absence to stay home with their kids.
