Well, mass testing did not stop the virus anywhere, it just costs a lot, drives people to despair and boosts the numbers. Anyway, as soon as vaccination becomes common practice, COVID-19 is just another virus disease you can get vaccinated against in a regular way, same as others. All the special facilities will disappear. OSM-forums will carry on the debate whether they should be tagged as historic or abandoned until the next pandemic.
Peter Elderson Op do 26 nov. 2020 om 15:59 schreef Paul Allen <[email protected]>: > On Thu, 26 Nov 2020 at 02:35, stevea <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I'm in California, where it's almost cliché we love our cars and car >> culture, but it is true that not only here but in many USA states, we have >> "drive-thru" COVID-19 testing centers. > > > In the UK we don't have much of a drive-thru anything except maybe some > fast-food outlets of American origin. Yet all the covid-19 testing > centres I'm > aware of are strictly drive-thru. As in you're not allowed to turn up on > foot, > because if you're infected you may pass it on to other pedestrians you walk > near. And they're drive-thru because the swabs are taken in the open. > The swabs are taken in the open because there is far less risk of > transmission outdoors than indoors. > > >> I would guess that vaccination centers that are also "drive-thru" are >> likely soon (early 2021?), too. > > > The same reasons that make the test centres drive-thru apply to > vaccination centres. Eventually, when we have herd immunity > (one way or another) indoor vaccination may be feasible (but > probably undesirable). The health workers will be vaccinated > first so they won't be at risk either way, but these places will > be handling large numbers of people and having them all wait > indoors is a good way of infecting lots of people. > > >> These being mapped with "indefinite duration" seems a bit much (sorry, >> Brian), but they are usually more of a "pop-up" kind of thing: one-time or >> "only on Saturdays" or something like that. > > > There is a temporary, short-duration, won't be there for long, test centre > just > popped up in my town because a couple of weeks ago some idiots decided > to celebrate the end of firebreak restrictions by going to the pubs and > ignoring social distancing completely. Fifty-five cases came of that, and > three hundred contacts have been traced. I expect it to go away in a few > weeks if the outbreak gets under control. I'm not confident the outbreak > will be under control very soon because a lot of the celebrants were > shop workers. > > But as well as that pop-up test centre because of the sudden surge, there > is an existing test centre. That's based at the leisure centre that was > converted to an emergency overflow hospital several months ago. I only > found out the test centre was there a few days ago because we try to > keep their locations secret, so I probably won't map it. > > Vaccination centres are going to handle more people than test centres > do because nearly the entire population will have to be vaccinated but > only a very small fraction of the population is tested (we ought to be > testing everyone at least once a week, but my country's government > is somewhat incompetent). > > -- > Paul > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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