Oops. I thought that was a recent post.UNI88 wrote: ↑Thu Jun 13, 2024 5:03 pmAm I missing something? The time stamps indicate that SG posted that at 10:42 am on 2/11/24 just 11 minutes after your post at 10:31 am on 2/11/24.
I am curious how you apply "focused protection to the elderly instead of bringing COVID into their nursing homes". Does that mean that nursing home employees have to be quarantined and can't stay with or see friends and family? If they can, are they quarantining nursing home employees plus the friends and family? Where does it stop? Or would it be a nursing home version of Lord of the Flies where no outsiders are allowed to enter and they have to take care of themselves? Inquiring minds want to know the details of how this solution that appears simple but really isn't would work.
The nursing home fiasco (at least the one in NY) was a huge mistake.
The other extreme is an potentially exposed worker going to a party, wedding, any social gathering at the heart of the pandemic where people were not socially distancing and not testing before or after and then heading to work in the home the next day.
So indeed, it’s not simple.
The saddest part of Covid other than the millions who died or are still experiencing issues associated with it, was the self centered lack of community and sacrificing normalcy for a period of time in order to lesson the illnesses and come out of it quicker.
We could have done much better and in a perfect world we wouldn’t need government mandates as enough people would do the right thing.
That’s not the America we have been in. Hopefully it changes for things beyond Covid.