Omnibus COVID-19 virus discussion thread

We need to define what normal is so we can understand what falls under overreaction.

I propose that extermination of all hampsters and paying $25,000 to charter a flight to save your pet is insane. Seeing how this is in most mammals now there is zero chance that we would be able to exterminate all deer to remove all reservoirs for this plague.

We also have to come to terms with our healthcare system itself. Had this happened in the 80's or 90's where we had 2-3 times as many ICU beds and the staff to maintain them we wouldn't be on the ropes as we are now. However, we have had our provinces see spending money on our healthcare much the same as the Germans saw sending troops to the eastern front, a meatgrinder with no returns but needs to be paid. So we ended with a system held together with blue haired staff exceptionally well trained veterans of the industry but with no one to replace them so we could run it on the cheap. Meanwhile any and all redundancy was ruthlessly rooted out and seen as wasteful. And with everything run so efficiently by the soon to retire blue haired staff we have anemic replacement training so we have little was to scale up fast in the event of a disaster. Instead relying on outsourcing manpower from other nations and headhunting rather than investing in our own colleges.

The pandemic has now shown all this as foolhardy this was. Much like our crisis in our care homes has given stark contrast of how badly mismanaged our system is. So now the blue hairs have all either burnt out and retired and the youth replacements we have to fill the slot are overwhelmed and they too are QUITTING in DROVES. When they aren't sick and in quarantine themselves. Meanwhile we STILL HAVE MILLIONS (PLURAL) that refuse to get the shot. I know that we have over close to 80% with both shots across the country but that still means millions are still dragging this out for the rest of us.

Getting back to normal will be decades and not in my lifetime. We spent far too much time whistling past the graveyard for this to happen. Imagine if we had a global disaster facing us all that required us to face the reality of it and make hard choices. Good thing we don't right? *coff*global warming is real*coff*

Normal means SURVIVAL. We are not cutting it and much more need to be done.

The Freedumb Convoy is underway today, I'm sure these morons will eat up 25% of the National news tonight.
That they're gonna cruise across the county, tying up roads and spewing CO2 and particulates at the time of record prices threatening everyone else how THEY will pay for enforcing the rules and ignore completely that America has the same ones show just how stubborn, ignorant and out of touch they are.
Reality is- they're gonna lose their jobs. And if you value freedumbs more than your livelihood, fuck you. The kid across the street has a Class A, is vaxxed and is looking for work. And there will be many jobs for repo men to grab those rigs they can't pay for any more.
Grow up and get vaxxed, it's not like you haven't had time or plenty of warning.