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by colordrops 1997 days ago
I don't understand your response. I'm suggesting trained professionals e.g. nurses, not random teenagers.
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In Italy those are exactly the super-spreaders who caused a spike of death in most ISOLATED caring homes in which only they could enter.

For your plan to remotely work you would have to:

- totally isolate the people over an age limit that you want to keep out of society, assuming they don't are still working and/or have the money to stay isolated

- isolate with them any professional they need. Not only nurses and doctors, which I think you already won't find in numbers high enough to be useful, indeed in most states they are not even enough to cover normal hospitals functions in case of spikes, but also for example electricians/plumbers/gardeners/etc only for them, people who have to go shopping for them, etc

- isolate the whole family group of ALL these professional above

- create a sparse amount of covid hospitals with yet another group of medic professionals just for them so to avoid cross contamination in hospitals which is the main sanitary risk at the moment

There are already numerous documented examples of COVID-19 spreading in care homes. Nurses some times get sick. Then you have admin staff, deliveries and their drivers, visitors, other engineers brought on site like electricians or cable guys.

You only need one person to badly wash their hands or forget to wipe down their deliveries for the whole care home to become a petri dish.

There was a recent case of 3 deaths occuring in a nursing home in the UK after an infected Santa came to visit.
And 16 deaths in a similar case in Belgium