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Originally Posted by looooob
am I missing something? wasn't last year also in Alberta, Czechia was pre-covid? hope I'm not completely out to lunch here
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You're right...my logic skills failed to account for the tourney straddling calendar years.
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Originally Posted by AustinL_NHL
Yes, I fully understand that. You can look at my post history and realize I've said the exact same thing many times before.
What I'm saying/asking is when does this end? The vaccine is clearly working for the large majority of people. There's only so much we can do. No matter how many booster shots we get, we will never be fully immune to getting covid. Covid isn't going anywhere, so do we just live life like this forever now? Anytime there's a covid case in sports (90%+ of them are asymptomatic), do we not let the players play despite feeling as normal as ever? Or even go one step further and shut the entire tournament/league down like we did with the WJC because of a handful of cases in which the players all feel completely fine?
It's very likely that we'll all get covid numerous times a year at this point. But most of us won't even know we have it most of the time because we show no symptoms.
I'm saying this as someone who's been suffering from long-covid for 11 months now (Parosmia). I know covid doesn't hit everyone the same, but people are doing much better now fully vaccinated than they were before vaccines.
There'll always be people who feel covid effects worse than others. But that's very unlikely to change no matter how many booster shots we get. At some point we need to be happy with how effective the vaccines are (like I already said, they've been quite effective).
You can see progress finally happening in sports, where leagues are starting to not test asymptomatic players, which is great.
Life/business needs to go on at some point.
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The answer may be soon, but not yet. For starters, let's get the <5 year old age group vaxxed and give the developing world a chance to get reasonably protected, too.
Let's also remember/acknowledge that our healthcare system didn't really have a ton of spare capacity before this all started...quite the contrary in fact.