What if? No new cases no deaths

mariaalice

If we in a couple of weeks, say Aguste we have a few weeks of no new confirmed cases and no deaths. Would we be able to open schools fully in the normal fashion would we be able to relax social distancing or how does it work?

Or

Dose everything stays as is until we get a vaccine?


What does the scientific evidence say?

hmmm

Social distancing may be relaxed but it is here to stay while we have travel to and from the island. There may also be small pockets of infection building in the community which we haven't discovered yet - similar to the first wave where it was here for a few weeks before we first saw patients in hospitals. The risk is that one of these cases suddenly causes a much larger spread - e.g. what happened in Korea where one person infected a hundred other people after going on a pub crawl.

Realistically we can't do all that much about travel. We have a land border with the North, and we have too much intra-European travel and trade.

It's a very difficult situation and I have a lot of sympathy for everyone involved in making decisions - it's not easy trying to get the balance right.

fits

mariaalice wrote: »

If we in a couple of weeks, say Aguste we have a few weeks of no new confirmed cases and no deaths. Would we be able to open schools fully in the normal fashion would we be able to relax social distancing or how does it work?

I just dont think this is going to happen while the virus is endemic in countries where people travel into ireland from. Unfortunately.

touts

The schools will reopen as normal in September no matter what the status of the virus or a vaccine. The whole economy is based on having children in school so their parents can work. We have lots of new bondholders to pay.