330 posts were split to a new topic: On the Origins of Covid
Keep the hair! Iām on about 14 months of growth, I had a trim in July from a relative but my last real cut was Feb 2020
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Late May?
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This could go into poor media outlet choices, but, uh, did no one think about paying people more?
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Thatās not really an answer to his question though.
90% isnāt 100%. More importantly, eligible in 3 weeks is very different than able to get a shot in 3 weeks.
Iām having some real mixed emotions looking at the pace of vaccinations (good!) with the increase in cases (bad!). Here in Franklin County, OH, cases have jumped up a bit recently. Itās a pretty small movement relative to the steep decline in the past 3 months (these are the 3 counties making up our school district):
Again, maybe a minor blip of noise in an otherwise-solid decline, but that increase seems to be happening a lot around the country.
Hereās a county-level case rates over time for counties with high rates (7-day average cases/100,000 population >=100), medium rates (>=50 and <100), and low rates (<50). This only includes counties with a population of at least 100,000.
Basically, this was maxed out for several months, where ~100% of these counties were reporting high rates of cases. Since mid-January or so, that started falling, so that we got to roughly 50% of these counties at low or medium case rates. But, just like in my local OH area, thereās been a small reversal in recent weeks. The biggest part of me isnāt super worried - weāre getting close to 100 million people having received at least one vaccination shot. So Iām assuming thereās no way we see a spike like we did last fall. But the other part of me is just completely sick of this past year and terribly pessimistic that weāre in for several more months of this shit being all over the place.
Update, first shot scheduled for April 1st
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Theyāre gonna poz you instead.
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CDC stated there will be no national US vaccine passport as they fear government involvement will be viewed as too heavy handed (feds especially). This will be a private sector project with some guidance from the White House at some point, but basically going to be up to the private sector to come up with a profitable model for vax passes.
Is this real? Are they just trolling us now?
The White House, meanwhile is ruling out the creation of a national āvaccine passportā for Americans to verify their immunization status, saying it is leaving it to the private sector to develop a system for people show theyāve been vaccinated. Some other countries are establishing national databases to allow vaccinated people to resume normal activities.
āWe do know that there is a segment of the population that is concerned that the government will play too heavy-handed of a role in monitoring their vaccinations,ā said White House COVID-19 adviser Andy Slavitt. He said officials are worried that āit would discourage peopleā from getting vaccinated if the federal government was involved.
The administration, instead, is developing guidelines for such passports, touching on privacy, accuracy and equity, but the White House has not said when those guidelines will be ready.
Not a big vax passport fan this early, but obviously a centralized system much better than having to deal with whatever number of systems we have and a profit model (probably free to consumer then charge the event organizer x amount a head I would think. Ticketmaster will probably pay $4 a head then charge the consumer $10)
And opening to everyone over 16 starting April 6th. No idea why NY thought it important to allow 30-50 year olds to have 1 week priority, but whatever.
This whole situation is like that meme of the guy on a bicycle who jams a stick into his wheel and yells āScientists!ā after he falls, only also in the first panel there are like a dozen science bros yelling at him to not jam a stick in his wheel and in the last panel the scientists fix his bike for him.
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And here I am in between those two states hearing stories about how the 50-59 age group just eligible today booked every spot in existence out to late April.
Iām āeligibleā next Monday as a member of the 40-49 group, but am starting to wonder if Iām going to have to wait until May.
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I donāt know if the awesome Youtube interview show Hot Ones filmed during the pandemic but seems such a way to cheat.
Although if you canāt taste do you still get effects of burning? Seems like that is different.
The show has remained active.
Restaurants are some of the worst abusers.
Saw a TikTok today from a lady who said the restaurant, who pays their kitchen staff minimum wage 
is making servers raise their tip outs from 25% to 38% so the kitchen staff can make more. The restaurant is contributing zero more dollars to the kitchen staff they pay minimum wage.
Yup. āWoe is me! I canāt hire people for sub-poverty wages when they can get poverty wages for staying at home! And I have all these customers desperate to spend their money here! What shall I ever do?ā
I mean, I get that being a restaurant owner isnāt necessarily the worldās safest or most lucrative position, but motherfucker, pay people more. Raise prices if you have to.
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