Originally Posted by
Grumpy retiree
We should open up ASAP now that everybody has had the opportunity to be vaccinated.and let Covid rip.
It will improve the gene pool.
Anti-vax movement is a low point in Western civilisation.
The problem is that politics is the science of the possible. If the decision was open up and, if an anti-vaxer needs a ventilator, send him home to die, that would be fine.
Simple fact is that won't happen. So "let it rip" means letting our ICUs fill up to overflow, our healthcare professionals be overloaded, and elective surgeries get put back indefinatley- and remember, a hip replacement for someone virtually imobile with out it is "elective".
I'm not saying that at some point it itsn't inevitable- I AM saying we need the highest levels of vaccination and lowest levels of cases we can practically achieve before we do.