Re: CV and mad panic behaviour
Reply #6246 –
Losing the hyperbole for a moment, wherever you stand on covid here is a snapshot at next year for us in Melbourne.
We have Liverpool who lost 2 players from their starting lineup on Friday morning our time and 1 from the bench because they returned a positive result to a lateral flow test.
Last night our time 6 premier league games were scheduled to go ahead and only 1 ended up getting played.
Irrespective of vaccine status (Jurgen klopp has come out on record stating his team is 100% double vaccinated at Liverpool or near enough meaning that there is likely the odd exception, and some have boosters) yet he is losing players and the competition is being shut down anyway.
Vaccination serves only one purpose. Protection against serious illness and as we get more variants that might be a problem too.
This isn't a pro anti or whatever post.
This is one to highlight that some of the stuff we do has no real common sense attached to it. I was in the northern rivers area of nsw last week and on Wednesday they relaxed restrictions from check in and show proof of vaccination (way more on to it than melbourne) to walk around as you please no mask, no checking in, no proof of vaccination. They are still doing more prophylactic testing than we are.
I dont have the answers to anything and I'm not pretending to, but this isn't going to go away, and next year we are likely facing disruptions again unless we change our testing from exposure to clinical impact. I dont see the benefit in testing everyone for the sniffles or every time they are at an exposure site whilst our hospitalisation remains low and we have so many protected by vaccination.
Keep in mind I know how many patients are being monitored in isolation when I say this too.