jagardner1984
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There is sadly an economic reality to all this as well. Whilst the feeling on social media etc seems to be rather a lot of people are quite enjoying the government paying them 80% for staying at home, the long term numbers are just eye watering as a result. So there will be huge pressure to try and find a way to get some people back to work, and crucially, the kids back to school. Yesterday on my daily exercise I passed a number of Large empty industrial premises, and wondered if there might be some low density temporary office / light manufacturing premises built for companies to lease closer to people’s homes. As has been seen internationally, ideas such as split week schooling to allow lower density and lower contact, and allowing premises up to a certain size to reopen, or to do it on a regional basis as health care systems begin to recover. As others have said, mass public gatherings where virtually the main purpose is to be close to one another, pubs, clubs, Football stadia, theatres and cinemas, will doubtless be the very last places to reopen.
With the exception of a relative few with compromised immune or weak respiratory systems, the issue has never been the individual going to work, or indeed then getting sick, the issue has been the impact of that action on others, either as symptomatic or asymptomatic carriers, or crucially those who have had the virus but absolutely can still transmit the virus to others via surfaces etc. Indeed are possibly more likely to do so as people clean less when more confident of their own immunity.
As illiberal as it sounds, some kind of electronic tag with proof of immunisation status (67 million people won’t be immunised overnight) and Policed airport style security scanners at transport hubs to detect them, with it being a criminal offence to travel without being immunised (obvious priority to key workers before implementation) and enforced mass Contact free hand cleaning stations in public places.
Much as I am often a critic of the government, they tried asking nicely, and currently thousands of people are grieving loved ones as a result of the failure of that policy. Drastic temporary action will be required to allow any kind of significant economic activity to occur before mass immunisation is completed, and to avoid saddling our children with an even more spectacular degree of debt, austerity and decline.
With the exception of a relative few with compromised immune or weak respiratory systems, the issue has never been the individual going to work, or indeed then getting sick, the issue has been the impact of that action on others, either as symptomatic or asymptomatic carriers, or crucially those who have had the virus but absolutely can still transmit the virus to others via surfaces etc. Indeed are possibly more likely to do so as people clean less when more confident of their own immunity.
As illiberal as it sounds, some kind of electronic tag with proof of immunisation status (67 million people won’t be immunised overnight) and Policed airport style security scanners at transport hubs to detect them, with it being a criminal offence to travel without being immunised (obvious priority to key workers before implementation) and enforced mass Contact free hand cleaning stations in public places.
Much as I am often a critic of the government, they tried asking nicely, and currently thousands of people are grieving loved ones as a result of the failure of that policy. Drastic temporary action will be required to allow any kind of significant economic activity to occur before mass immunisation is completed, and to avoid saddling our children with an even more spectacular degree of debt, austerity and decline.