Snap Out of Your Pandemic Passivity, Canada | The Tyee
“Success in a pandemic is not waiting for a vaccine,” says Bar-Yam.
“It’s about using an arsenal of tools, including vaccines, to defeat the
virus while we have the chance.”
“It’s about using an arsenal of tools, including vaccines, to defeat the
virus while we have the chance.”
Going to zero therefore means a serious five to seven-week lockdown that brings numbers down exponentially.
It means financially supporting struggling small businesses and their workers during that lockdown.
It means changing our testing programs from
passive systems that wait for symptomatic citizens to show up, to an
active approach that brings tests to the most at-risk communities and
workplaces.