When does the pandemic end?
Today I spoke with a friend that is a Chief Nurse in one of the most important hospitals here in Milan.
Please, take the following as hearsay.All started when I told her that my dentist has the third shot already booked. She told me that she, too, has her third shot already booked. This September the managers will reveal the precise date, but the third shot for doctors and nurses is a sure thing.
They are already planning the
fourth shot. This is
not a sure thing, but they want to have plans already in place should a fourth shot become necessary.
Lessons learned thus far: the World's economy cannot sustain anymore damage to the most profitable months: June-August and December. There always will be reopenings, the Covid cases will climb, if dangerous variants appear --> new shot.
Most of the bigwigs (in her hospital, to be clear) agree that this "dance" will go on until 2025. We
will get out of the woods, and maybe sooner, but not this year or next year.
Communication from the top has been terrible in her hospital - even worse with the public. Yet, if people have enough and stop listening it will be a disaster, but if this happens only the "experts in communications" will be the ones to blame.
She finally cheered me up by confirming that her Covid ward is already filling again. Since she did a "three months" tour of duty, internal rules mandate that she is to be assigned elsewhere for at least nine months. There are already rumbles that these rules will not be respected.
Again, to be clear, these are the words of my friend. I paraphrased a bit but this is what she said.
As soon as I can I'll call my distant cousin in Florida. She is a bigwig, even if in another field. I wonder what she will have to say.