Teen dies of Covid at Ste-Justine
A 16-year-old has died of Covid at Ste-Justine, the youngest victim so far in Quebec. TVA tells us that the hospital only says that younger people who die from the virus tend to have existing health conditions.
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Meezly 14:19 on 2021-04-07 Permalink
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-third-wave-back-and-forth-measures-1.5977607?fbclid=IwAR0zdffZJ8TDrc7ytMlQ29JYygLnhymXXOP2y81zG17XTpdeIRgEn-316J8
In an interview with La Presse last week, Arruda spelled out, with surprising candour, the province’s strategy to a younger journalist.
“If I have 2,000 [new] cases [a day] in Quebec, but we don’t have significant hospitalizations or deaths, we can live with that,” he said.
“Because older people are protected, we will, of course, have people your age who will find themselves in intensive care and die, which is horrible. But is it better if you close everything, and people break the rules in secret?”
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In other words, ‘Some of you may die – but that’s a chance we are willing to take.’ “
MarcG 15:03 on 2021-04-07 Permalink
“But is it better if you close everything, and people break the rules in secret?” Ultimately, ummm.. yes?
ant6n 18:00 on 2021-04-07 Permalink
It does suck. Most Western countries did not deal with this situation well.
But given that we are here now, with most risk groups vaccinated, the question is how many people will die. I mean, a bunch of people die every year in road accidents, but few are willing to shut down all individual driving.
There are some other concern though, like the proliferation of more mutations, or the strain on the health care system if we have a third wave even just among young people.
Chris 09:24 on 2021-04-08 Permalink
> In other words, ‘Some of you may die – but that’s a chance we are willing to take.’ “
We do so for everything else, why not covid? We accept cars even though they kill some of us. We accept factories, even though the pollution kills some of us. We allow sugary drinks, even though obesity kills some of us. We do it for influenza even. It’s hard to say how many covid deaths is acceptable, but the answer isn’t zero.