The Herald's View: Governments are not about to enforce new restrictions that have little public support. That’s the right call
having now tested positive, many would have had it themselves. On Sunday, the cumulative death toll reached 10,000 and most of those died this year.
The figure is barely a fraction of death totals recorded in similar countries around the world. In Britain,and the same figure was recorded within just two months this year but in Australia, a country which locked down for so long to keep its death toll low, the shift to daily double-digit death figures has been swift.
If learning to live with the virus was the goal, then maybe that has been achieved. But scratch the surface of most schools, the health system and many households and workplaces, and the chaos that is playing out due to the ongoing impact of the pandemic, along with a bad flu season, is not hard to spot.There is, however, little appetite for a return of vaccine or mask mandates. And governments are not about to enforce new restrictions that have little public support. That’s the right call.
But that’s not to say governments should put up the white flag. The months ahead are likely to be challenging.from the Burnet medical institute, because the COVID-19 virus is changing genetically via mutations so rapidly, it’s able to avoid gained immunity. They say this is leading to reinfections becoming increasingly common. And those reinfections are not necessarily milder than the initial infection.
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