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P.E.I. hospital suffers first COVID-19 outbreak since restrictions fully relaxed
(atlantic.ctvnews.ca)
this post was submitted on 30 Aug 2023
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Again, what is your solution ? It's unrealistic to expect everyone everywhere will never have an event, etc ever again for the rest of time. Be it a house party or otherwise, the risk is always there. There are consequences to every action but if we care about every consequence like that... it's honestly better to just end all our lives right here. It would be the most net positive action we can take. But that isn't a viable solution either, is it? How do we get everyone to agree to committing suicide?
You're saying a lot of angry words but providing no solutions or suggestions. You're basically being that old man yelling at clouds. We are social creatures and most people can't live in complete isolation forever. Even if we try to, our societies just aren't built for that. People who try often starve to death.
The compromise we sort of reached between "never go out again" and "take no precautions" was wearing masks in crowded places, doing at-home tests, getting vaccine boosters from time to time and staying home if you feel unwell. This isn't really such a bad arrangement, if most people go along with it. But somehow taking precautions has become a politically fraught thing and some people are thinking in black and white, as if the options are either doing nothing or locking everyone in their homes. Living with COVID will have to be a compromise between these extremes.
I really wish masks would become mandatory for food service people. It was really frustrating that literally the day it stopped being mandatory, my local coffee shop had basically none of the baristas wearing masks. One of them coughed while making my coffee and was like "oh don't worry, it's not COVID"
"I'm less worried about COVID, and more worried about your lung butter in my drink."