Just looking around, the majority are acting as if COVID is over. Labor Day weekend in the US had more passengers than Labor Day in 2019. People for the most part aren't getting booster shots, aren't wearing masks, schools aren't updating ventilation systems. As more people have gotten infected in 2022, it has become more of the "yeah I…
Just looking around, the majority are acting as if COVID is over. Labor Day weekend in the US had more passengers than Labor Day in 2019. People for the most part aren't getting booster shots, aren't wearing masks, schools aren't updating ventilation systems. As more people have gotten infected in 2022, it has become more of the "yeah I was sick but it wasn't that bad" outnumbering the "I got sick and it was horrible."
It seems that this is more of a pragmatic approach than anything. It the "how can we get people to at least get one booster shot of some sort" when the vast majority of people are operating in the world as if the pandemic doesn't exist. One shot with the flu vaccine can help normalize an annual booster and can then be done at workplaces, community centers more easily. There is also a cost of producing shots. There needs to be a large enough number of people to get shots so they will make enough of them ala flu shots.
It really seems like the horse is way out of the barn, down the road and into the next town. COVID started with "get it and you might die, don't overwhelm hospitals." Now that fewer people die (comparatively to 2020), people just aren't that scared.
I think the big push for "more" will come when businesses are even more impacted with getting employees because long covid will depress the number of workers available. Already it seems to have a 1%-2% impact on worker availability. With a tight job market, that will make employers (and insurance companies) care, which means a push for Government to throw more money into boosters/filtration etc to prevent infection in the first place.
The airline industry is currently impacted big time. You'd think they would go back to requiring masks considering since they dropped it, they've had to reduce routes owing to 1000s of staff being out with COVID.
Just looking around, the majority are acting as if COVID is over. Labor Day weekend in the US had more passengers than Labor Day in 2019. People for the most part aren't getting booster shots, aren't wearing masks, schools aren't updating ventilation systems. As more people have gotten infected in 2022, it has become more of the "yeah I was sick but it wasn't that bad" outnumbering the "I got sick and it was horrible."
It seems that this is more of a pragmatic approach than anything. It the "how can we get people to at least get one booster shot of some sort" when the vast majority of people are operating in the world as if the pandemic doesn't exist. One shot with the flu vaccine can help normalize an annual booster and can then be done at workplaces, community centers more easily. There is also a cost of producing shots. There needs to be a large enough number of people to get shots so they will make enough of them ala flu shots.
It really seems like the horse is way out of the barn, down the road and into the next town. COVID started with "get it and you might die, don't overwhelm hospitals." Now that fewer people die (comparatively to 2020), people just aren't that scared.
I think the big push for "more" will come when businesses are even more impacted with getting employees because long covid will depress the number of workers available. Already it seems to have a 1%-2% impact on worker availability. With a tight job market, that will make employers (and insurance companies) care, which means a push for Government to throw more money into boosters/filtration etc to prevent infection in the first place.
The airline industry is currently impacted big time. You'd think they would go back to requiring masks considering since they dropped it, they've had to reduce routes owing to 1000s of staff being out with COVID.