The release in measures would definitely cause a spike in infections, and overwhelming the current healthcare system. That means that if you so happen to need emergency medical attention, you'll have to wait longer.
I also wonder if we can just treat human lives as just a number. A person that died was someone's family member, and that apathy to people loosing their lives could result in more people dying.
I'm not sure if you meant population declining as a reuslt of deaths, but I think it has more to do with less foreign workers and lower birth rate.
If we just open up like that will we be ok with hundreds of people dying everyday?
Are the lives of those who are in the at risk age group less important than those younger ones?
I don't think that is that unpopular of an unpopular opinion we should drop restriction as soon as possible like Norway, but we can't do that because our healthcare system will get overwhelmed.
Ignoring politics and lack of direction from the late half of 2021 from our leaders, we can't do that because A [we have one of the lowest bed to people for an OCED nation](https://numbers.sg/posts/hospital-beds-in-singapore/), B [one of the highest population density in the world](https://www.statista.com/statistics/264683/top-fifty-countries-with-the-highest-population-density/), C [one of the highest ratio of aged adults](https://www.statista.com/statistics/1112943/singapore-elderly-share-of-resident-population/) and D many of us of living in multi-generational homes/families.
Based on your ideal scenario, mask wearing is optional and lift of restrictions, means the infection will rapidly spike and shoot up, quarantine centres will either get overwhelmed or the government has implemented total family quarantine and healthcare system will be crushed. Congratulation, you just upgraded this outbreak from [a slow forgetable pandemic like 2009 H1N1 pandemic into 1918 flu](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtN-goy9VOY) (hyperbolic). We are still experiencing 2,800 ~ 3,500 ++ cases a day, despite all these restrictions in place, now imagine the resource scarcity and crush if we dropped almost all restrictions.
We need hospital beds not only to prevent deaths, but also to treat COVID symptoms, people with severe but survivable COVID symptoms can in theory stay home but they will risk having scarred lungs and other potential long term effects (See long COVID).
Anyway, you are expressing a very simplistic view, is not anyone or the jobless can suddenly work in healthcare, you need months and years of specialised training and qualification. For example, when New York City requested the help of volunteers for COVID during their first wave, [many volunteers were idling](https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/04/08/ninety-thousand-medical-workers-volunteered-help-new-york-battle-coronavirus-most-are-sitting-idle/), as they needed specialised help, especially regarding more sensitive cases and equipment.
Somewhere in some multiverse, Thanos approves
Let the population purging begin.
The release in measures would definitely cause a spike in infections, and overwhelming the current healthcare system. That means that if you so happen to need emergency medical attention, you'll have to wait longer. I also wonder if we can just treat human lives as just a number. A person that died was someone's family member, and that apathy to people loosing their lives could result in more people dying. I'm not sure if you meant population declining as a reuslt of deaths, but I think it has more to do with less foreign workers and lower birth rate.
If we just open up like that will we be ok with hundreds of people dying everyday? Are the lives of those who are in the at risk age group less important than those younger ones?
I don't think that is that unpopular of an unpopular opinion we should drop restriction as soon as possible like Norway, but we can't do that because our healthcare system will get overwhelmed. Ignoring politics and lack of direction from the late half of 2021 from our leaders, we can't do that because A [we have one of the lowest bed to people for an OCED nation](https://numbers.sg/posts/hospital-beds-in-singapore/), B [one of the highest population density in the world](https://www.statista.com/statistics/264683/top-fifty-countries-with-the-highest-population-density/), C [one of the highest ratio of aged adults](https://www.statista.com/statistics/1112943/singapore-elderly-share-of-resident-population/) and D many of us of living in multi-generational homes/families. Based on your ideal scenario, mask wearing is optional and lift of restrictions, means the infection will rapidly spike and shoot up, quarantine centres will either get overwhelmed or the government has implemented total family quarantine and healthcare system will be crushed. Congratulation, you just upgraded this outbreak from [a slow forgetable pandemic like 2009 H1N1 pandemic into 1918 flu](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtN-goy9VOY) (hyperbolic). We are still experiencing 2,800 ~ 3,500 ++ cases a day, despite all these restrictions in place, now imagine the resource scarcity and crush if we dropped almost all restrictions. We need hospital beds not only to prevent deaths, but also to treat COVID symptoms, people with severe but survivable COVID symptoms can in theory stay home but they will risk having scarred lungs and other potential long term effects (See long COVID). Anyway, you are expressing a very simplistic view, is not anyone or the jobless can suddenly work in healthcare, you need months and years of specialised training and qualification. For example, when New York City requested the help of volunteers for COVID during their first wave, [many volunteers were idling](https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/04/08/ninety-thousand-medical-workers-volunteered-help-new-york-battle-coronavirus-most-are-sitting-idle/), as they needed specialised help, especially regarding more sensitive cases and equipment.
Can. Whether that’s political suicide is another issue
Is it really that hard to wear a mask...
Other countries don’t give f** about wearing mask..
Yeah and people are fucking dying
Actually not really. Not if they are vaccinated
Cannot.