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Originally Posted by GirlySports
Has shutdowns really worked anywhere though. Western societies went to option 3 and Canada is seeing record highs this week. And Asia, they lockdown people in buildings, because they can, and that worked but that's pretty tough to see succeeding here without massive protests. Heck people are even protesting masks, let alone locking them in buildings.
I'm getting to the point where it's November soon and we have to start living with this things and be as safe as possible. I've worked everyday of the pandemic in the the office and I was a pro-shutdown person back in March.
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Ontario released information today showing that when bars, restaurants and gyms are closed, the cases drop after a couple of weeks. Not sure how scientific the research is.
As cold as it sounds, eventually it is going to come down to money. Is the cost of shut-downs more than the costs of burdening the health care system. I don't like it, but it's what humans do. Time is pretty paramount at this stage of the pandemic. The strategy has been to use stop-gap measures until vaccines and treatments remove the problem, but not enough effort has been put forward to deal with COVID as a new long-term reality.