Great visual. We were so close to beating this thing which makes the current situation so much more frustrating.
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Jfc its the game Pandemic come to life
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Somebody played the variant card directly onto Missouri
Depends on the definition of beat, but I donât think we can beat delta with our current vaccines without ongoing NPI like everyone masking, WFH, hybrid school, and distancing.
EDIT: or real elimination/border closure efforts
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Shouldnât be answering that.
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Cases in the Hunter Valley, inland from Newcastle, north of Sydney, were traced to a beach party at Newcastle. Who knows if they were hugging and yelling and spitting in each otherâs mouths or whatever, but this is still multiple confirmed cases of outdoor transmission. Delta variant, obviously, as thatâs what 100% of community transmission in Australia is.
I feel like a vaccine mandate would be a great opportunity for many businesses and organizations to update the quality of their staff with minimal effort.
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the school board here just announced that schools can have virtual orientation to reduce the speed of covid.
schools all scheduled their orientation days forâŚtomorrow.
Tuesday school starts with option masks though, so limiting spread wonât be as big of a concern because covid will be safe then.
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their plan is survival of the fittest
until they learn theyâre not the fittest
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anti vax has been pretty constant throughout history (definitely was a thing when they first started over a century ago)
itâs just led to dumber and dumber now that diseases have been eradicated thanks to them
There was definitely a time when almost all Republicans I knew were down with vaccines and being a sort of hippie, all the new age people I knew that were mostly clueless about science and believed in Reiki and shit were vaccine skeptics. Jenny McCarthy didnât help. Now, itâs the crazy right wingers and these new age morons.
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University I work at just re-instituted a mask mandate.
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My school wonât open for a few weeks (four actually), but our state government just announced that instead of two rapid tests a week we will have daily rapid tests for the unvaccinated. Mask policy will depend on the incidence rate in the county. Before the holidays students could opt out of in-person education.
The reason was mostly that the state government thought they had a rather shaky legal ground for forcing people to get tested and the plan was that this way it would more likely stand up to challenges in court.
Seems reasonable actually.
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Among some of these officials, that libertarian demand for medical freedom has displaced the traditional GOP view that itâs a civic responsibility to immunize your kids to prevent the spread of disease. As more politicians take an anti-mandate stand, some end up adopting bogus theories about the supposed harms of vaccination â threatening to roll back one of public healthâs great achievements.
Ditto.
https://twitter.com/ABC7/status/1423407769567199233?s=19
Stuff like this should get things moving. It appears there are forces at work in most states and many businesses that will get 80+% of 12 and over vaccinated.
Am I wrong to not trust the rapid tests? Are they more accurate than they used to be?
https://twitter.com/SeifertESPN/status/1423332820265676805?s=19
https://twitter.com/SeifertESPN/status/1423334082151428096?s=19
https://twitter.com/kcoffee9/status/1423338589367128067?s=19
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Theyâre accurate enough for these purposes. A daily PCR test would be impractical given that you want instant results if you are testing someone to let them come to work.