Is there anything to learn from sports bubbles?

THE enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) has pushed back a lot of things from business to work to even sports. With good reason. The increase in Covid-19 infections certainly warrants so.

I can understand the reopening of business because our survival depends on it. I can understand the calls for the return to face-to-face learning.

And maybe, just maybe, something can be done.

However, every day, you hear of new infections and deaths as well as recoveries. While the lack of vaccines and people not mindful of the safety protocols contribute to the higher figures, I wish there was more specific data about the infections, deaths, and well, this contagion. How we can deal with it.

I happen to think the local contact tracing is a bust because of poor implementation and a general lack of how to do it. Really. Go into a grocery and you see the names of Harry Potter and Lebron James on some info sheets. Are identification cards even checked? Social distancing is simply not practiced. You tell people to mind their distance and they get upset. It is extremely annoying.

What is the data surrounding the infections telling us? Is no one studying the data? And the numbers are small in the provinces but how accurate is that? Is it because of the lack of testing or are there just fewer numbers?

Furthermore, what can be learned from the self-contained communities? I know the sports bubbles are micro communities and easily more containable, but I am sure there are lessons to be learned from them that can be applied elsewhere.

There have been several successful ones and what can be learned from them?

What are the best practices around the world or locally when it comes to containing or suppressing the virus?

Why is it when numbers are up, local officials do not say which communities are specifically infected? Which households so one can avoid them? What is all this secrecy? Who is actually protecting who?

There is one building in my area that has supposedly been quarantined and yet I saw with my own eyes cars coming in and out of the lower level parking. What gives?

Am just so angry at the way this pandemic is being managed. There is so much incompetence going around.

I regularly go through checkpoints and man, they aren’t worth anyone’s time. The people manning it hardly look up from their cellphones.

I know the world continues to struggle from this pandemic. Even the current vaccines aren’t long-term solutions. They are meant to provide anti-bodies and as of the latest report, have an effectiveness up to six months before you need another dose. The threat of new strains threatens to even render them moot.

If you noticed, I have a lot of questions in the above paragraphs. I am just furiously upset at this.

You’d think that more than a year into lockdown, we’d get better at managing this. But no. It’s like we didn’t learn anything at all.