MDKMDK wrote:
it's up to you to decide what level of risk you're comfortable accepting before you leave the house, knowing what you know about your own personal health situations, and what the "experts" have told us about CV19. You can't force otherwise healthy people to "coccoon" themselves forever because of your personal situation.
That is some very, very good food for thought.
We must all consider literally
that all of "us" will (sooner or later) end up in a hospital, a medical clinic, or a dental office; all high-risk environments harboring potentially sars-cov-2, and numerous other viral pathogens. Unfortunately, non-medical staff arriving at hospitals, clinics and dental clinics are not permitted (by law) to wear N-95 PPE, and, in fact, will not even have the avail of a surgical mask during examination (especially for an oral issue or dental procedure(s)).
So, whether "we" are at our snowbirding destination, on the road to, or self-cocooning at "home", all of us will eventually be thrown into "the wild" outside our controlled environment (our homes), and be in a potentially infectious environment. This is what scares me the most; whether we end up at our snowbirding destination, or, forced to remain in Canada, in our environment presently experiencing a worrying resurgence of covid, as I type.
Our local hospitals and medical facilities aren't exactly places of advanced hospital technology, being more than 5 decades old.
Just to be clear, I'm not advocating that we behave differently from our present high level of responsibility when moving from Canada to our snowbirding locale, and over the winter.
One other consideration is any potential "vaccine". We have to be careful of our anticipation of a "silver bullet" this soon in the game. We are cautiously optimistic that at least two vaccines seem to "work", but know (as my better half and I had spent some time in a BSL-4 lab where some of the world's most deadly viruses were being researched) that proven and trusted vaccines with no trial shortcuts, have long development time-lines; complicating this is efficacy rates across all age cohorts (adjuvants can be very hard to get right). With this in mind, the World needs to rapidly deploy deep saliva tests with same-day results broadly, so we can get back to some semblance of recovery, and cross-border movement, because IF a vaccine isn't forthcoming by the 1st Quarter of 2021, the "human environment" won't be sustainable under present Global shutdown regimes.
