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by aurelianito 1602 days ago
These people also die from the flu and common cold. We cannot stop the world for them.
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Public health has also traditionally worked in the interest of high-risk and vulnerable people. With COVID it looks like we'll largely abandon that - for not completely illogical reasons, obviously public health has a cost, but I think it's important to acknowledge that this is giving up and not business as usual.
It is business as usual. They will be in a similar situation as they were before the pandemic.