Society was given a chance to do the right thing to protect the welfare, health, and safety of others in their community when we came out of the lockdown in 2020...unfortunately we were not willing to do it as a whole.
Many places in North America just did not care (e.g. maskless parties, protests, making it political intentionally spreading misinformation online, etc).
This not caring (not following the CDC health guidelines as a whole, growing vaccine hesitancy) forced the government to take the next step...vaccine mandates.
As in, mandates will remain for the military, schools, healthcare workers, refugees, and immigrants while it's removed off of businesses only. These mandates are then buried quietly but people just get used to them...they become a normal part of life.
- We have a history (e.g. 1918 influenza) to help us know when governments will remove mandates and it shows it is only partially removed...
In contrast, mandates are removed from businesses while letting each business itself decides if they want to require their employees to be vaccinated. Historically, it has been the Public Health Agency of a country that decides when to lift mandates.
Today, those agencies look to the WHO considering countries today are globally connected with people traveling from country to country very easily...a favorite route for transporting viruses without people knowing they are endangering the society of another country.
In short, you're going to need to see declines that stay low enough where its no longer a threat to the welfare, health, and safety of others. Next, the WHO would then declare its no longer a Pandemic.
Yet, even after the WHO makes such a declaration, vaccine mandates have always remained for the military, schools, healthcare workers, refugees, and immigrants since the early 1900s.
This is one of the reasons behind the growth of our healthcare system (e.g. hospitals, private medical practices, clinics) because people have illnesses that were preventable and they made a decision early in the infection, prior to being infective that they just don't care or they're poor and do not have easy access to proper healthcare.
- Sadly, society gets used to those Not Vaccinated just dying off or using antiviral therapeutic treatments to stay alive whenever they become infected...making pharmaceutical companies richer beyond their imagination.
As more people die from Covid, those not vaccinated will begin to get smaller in numbers and when that threshold of danger is reduced to a safe manageable small number...vaccine mandates on businesses will be lifted but neveron the military, schools, healthcare workers, refugees, and immigrants.
Very true.
wrbtrader
I look at the case counts where Delta has spread, we follow the same lines. Cases are dropping across the country rapidly. It’s not because of a reduction/deaths among the unvaxxed. Really? The vast, vast percentage of people who get the virus, survive.
The reality is the virus has pretty much burned its way through society. Depending on where you are, areas dealt with the virus differently. But regardless of the effort the numbers all follow the same spike and dip.
There will come a point in time, soon, when the virus will be here but not that big of a deal. You won’t hear it in the news but you’ll notice it’s consuming absence in society, the people around you just won’t be sick with Covid.
However, the pressure from the government will still remain.
Have a great weekend, time to get ready for some football, big games this week.