Friday, April 17, 2020

what do we do then?

what i told you in the first place - you lock the old folks up and throw away the key until christmas, and you let everybody else go about their daily lives.

it will kill some young and healthy people, but the universe isn't a safe space; viruses kill people. that's life.

in the end, we ended up locking up the old folks like we should have done from the start. it took thousands of dead geriatrics; we're slow learners, but we got the point, and we adjusted.

at this point, we're clearly going to need to do antibody testing before we're able to realize that what we did had almost no effect, and i'm not expecting a reversal of policy until it happens.

toronto and montreal are each going to have thousands of dead, as will detroit. whether vancouver goes down the same path or not will depend on how long they maintain their protective barrier around their seniors for...