MikeB4:

 

@tdgeek My daughter is a Doctor(MD)/Scientist(PhD)  working in medical research overseas. I Facetimed with last night,  She believes the experiment of living with Covid-19 is going to be a disaster. The Virus will mutate at a greater rate to a point where vaccines will struggle to keep up. The only real hope is effective treatments but just like treating the common cold and influenza these treatments are a very long time off and will not stop our medical infrastructure becoming overwhelmed globally.  She believes the "opening up and living with it" is not based on any sound science, it is driven by dollars. The only answer at this time is separation of those with it from those without it be they vaccinated or not.

 

Of course dollars are part of the decision process. 

People have to earn a living to put a roof over their head and food on the table and be able to pay for the science and other things that enhance our way of life.

For the past 18 months our economy has been on an intravenous feed of money from the government. This money injection has insulated us all from the hard effects of Covid on our ability to earn a living. I'd be willing to bet there is no one on here who earns a living one way or another who hasn't benefitted from Covid support payments in one way or another, directly or indirectly.

To some extent we are living in a fools paradise. We cannot carry on indefinitely like this. We have to transition to living with the virus. We have to balance the now with the future. In doing so we need to provide the best protection we can afford for those vulnerable to Covid.