Quote (Black XistenZ @ Jan 7 2022 08:17pm)
Johnny and me were talking about Australia, not the U.S. ;)
In our discussion on this point from a day or two ago, I already alluded to the fundamental difference between the current wave and, let's say, last winter: to keep case numbers below a certain threshold corresponding to the capacity of the healthcare system, the necessary restrictions are permanent. When people are getting mass infected, they are out for 5 to 14 days, but will return to work afterwards and be immune to the currently circulating variant. Yes, it sucks if your cancer research has to shut down due to too many of its staff testing positive - but that will be a temporary hiccup, not something that stops their work for months and months on end.
Yeah, I was just adding our own experience as an update.
Mainly sucks for the patients who might have to go without treatment. I could care less about the pharma companies honestly, but if a patient starts progressing because they missed a dose by 3 weeks it'll suck
