RE: Tick, tick BOOM24 Jan 2021 13:19
radiagreen,
I normally take a lot of flack for asking this basic, but fundamental question: Who is going to pay for regular, frequent testing? (and before the usual suspects start the normal ****ging of my posts, I did not bring this up)
At some stage the govt will stop paying and pass it down to business and individuals. If its business, (as your so far, 8 tics suggests a certain agreement on this board with), it will be passed on to their customers so I am pretty sure the individual will probably effectively, pay twice. If the govt pays for testing to public workers then given (before this pandemic), they were never ending arguments trying to justify any further increase in public spending, it can only result in tax increases both to business and the individual.
So with higher taxes, and higher costs of goods and now extra unforeseen costs of testing it and given that most basic rate tax payers don't have masses (some, if any), left over for "luxuries" you have to wonder what quality of life will result.
So the pressure, I think will be on to remove testing sooner rather than later. When is later? I don't know but I don't see 5 years of it for instance, or if this Covid is to remain high profile, then the society norms that are coming are going to very depressing indeed.