This changes nothing and lockdown harder is idiotic. We all knew its be mid 2021 before vaccine readily available. This just confirms it. 8 more months of lockdown will be just as damaging as it was yesterday.
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Replying to @Reroot_Flyover @mattyglesias
If anything this confirms we should focus on protecting old/vulnerable and move on. They can lay low for 8 more months. Or 3 til they get it or whatever. We'll have 120M+ infections by then regardless.
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The evidence is in fact pretty strong that the percentage of the elderly in this country living in institutional group homes is high enough that no "lock down the elderly" policy can possibly work
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Replying to @arthur_affect @j_hibernicus and
Unless you can somehow enforce a lockdown on all the younger people who work there too (including their families), any "herd immunity" strategy is just sentencing all the nursing homes to death
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Replying to @arthur_affect
If you selectively isolate people who work in care homes and their families, nobody is going to apply for those jobs, and a lot of the existing personnel will quit. Nurses take a lot of shit, but they have a line, as numerous organisations have found out.
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Especially because to be effective in a world where everyone else is going "back to normal" those isolation measures would have to be far more extreme than any measures anyone is actually living with right now And I very much doubt they'd actually fund such effective measures
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