Long ago it moved away from safety aspects to individual/societal ones. People feel safe here because of a very low number of infections where they live - in fact, in many areas there has been no localised infections for many months. We would not be hiding in bomb-shelters here if there was a war in, for example, France. The opinions expressed by some would be different if they were living in a 'hot spot' with huge numbers of cross-infections - they could continue their views on age and risk but the risk factor would be against them, and they would know it.
I think that long after the COVID-19 pandemic is but a memory, they will still be using it as an excuse for not getting things done. The pandemic has been a godsend for the bureaucrats always looking for an easy excuse. That's not to say that I am not grateful for the effective and forceful way the virus has been kept mostly at bay in Negros Oriental....as painful as the lockdowns have been.
Sorry, but I think that virus is here for the long haul. I don't see it being gone until a minimum of two years after a vaccine is in mass production and widely distributed...and with the massive antivaxer "movements" around the world the virus is almost certainly going to be around for a generation or two (possibly for the rest of human existence). Hopefully that bridge will be finished long before all this COVID nonsense has ended.
I think you are saying that by sometime next year, and as some government agencies seem to agree, that covid restrictions may be relaxed next year. If so, the bridge could be completed in 2021. After all, they suggest that international tourism may even be allowed in 2021. What I think you are not saying is that the bridge completion must await the total eradication of COVID19 from the planet as some people seem to be inferring. COVID19 restrictions tend to make the “slowmo” even slower...another Bisayan word contraction to add to my list lol. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
I agree with Rye83 that Covid-19 "is here for the long haul" never being fully eradicated... but rather being managed with an annual vaccine.
How do people know these things? Even top scientists don't know the fate of any virus for certain -some do go extinct, sometimes reappearing many times in different forms (strains). So exactly how do people know this one is going to hang around? Is it a 50/50 guess?