Vaccines may never be available. There isn’t one for the common cold—another coronavirus—so why should we assume one will be forthcoming for COVID-19?
Witnessing people’s responses to this pandemic has been very intriguing. Liberals seem to want hard-line rules enforced while conservatives seem to want to maintain civil liberties and freedom of choice. Liberals have previously loved to point to Sweden as if they have superior, more learned systems of taxation, governance and healthcare EXCEPT regarding their no-lockdown handling of Coronavirus. Isn’t it a bit ironic?
Everyone will get infected. We don’t have immunity and we don’t have a vaccine. It’s really a question of when and how badly. Effective treatments are the best hope to help those who will get severely ill.
Somehow our original goal of “slowing the spread” has morphed into avoidance of infection indefinitely which is not possible.
Why aren’t the most important statistics routinely reported— especially in central Florida—the current utilization rate of hospital beds, intensive care beds, and ventilators. Not overwhelming our healthcare system is the goal we have all sacrificed to achieve. How are we doing? And these stats are less open to interpretation than are the statistics involving (cause of) deaths or even numbers of infections since some who died were not diagnosed and many who are diagnosed don’t require hospitalization. The most important thing everyone wants to know is whether help (healthcare capacity) is available if you need it.
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