Not getting rid of my beard.
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Florida has yet again broken a new case record as the state reported 24,753 more COVID-19 cases to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday.
Florida — which makes up about 6.5% of the U.S. population, accounted for 18.7% of the country’s new cases on Tuesday — based on data the state is reporting to the CDC. As of Aug. 10, the state’s seven-day moving average of new cases was 21,156, up from a moving average of 3,701 on July 10. That number represents roughly a 472% increase, stemming from the highly contagious delta variant.
Peaking?!
Only if you give a fuck about unvaxed people in Florida.
And anyone else that might need medical care or have to provide medical care.
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If this happened to me I’d be a little bit salty.
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I mean I have a wife who has worked ICU for a decade and worked Covid ICU. It’s possibly just hyperbole and anger spewing. But thanks for the rebuke.
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I legit hate this morherfucker, he knows better. Pure grift.
https://twitter.com/claytravis/status/1425247080860332036?s=21
UT San Antonio shifts to online classes for first three weeks:
https://www.utsa.edu/today/2021/08/story/modified-fall-semester-operations.html
So in that study, half the people in England who died had two vaccines but in the USA 99% who are dying are unvaxed? Something seems off, no?
I’m anxiously awaiting a repost of this following news that DeSantis is getting intubated.
It might be because afaik the majority of people in the UK received the AZ vaccine while in the US most received a mRNA vaccine.
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The number for the UK that got so much attention seems to be only for Delta and was based on sample of 117 cases. Maybe there are other factors that skewed those results. 
Bottom line is that all studies should be understood as taking place in less than a controlled manner.
Less effective vs delta. Yes.
10%? 20%? 30%? 40%?
Hard to say at this point. As noted lots of confounding factors so not at all unexpected that different studies get different results.
Clearly the evidence says- mask. Get as many vaxxed as possible. Don’t let unvaxxed populations gather unmasked.
A little confusing— mRNA shots likely better. Boosters likely warranted for those at higher risk of breakthrough.
Guesses- how is the virus going to evolve? We have some clues. My somewhat educated guess is not in our favor.
I’m not sure what the actionable differences are based on the studies and range of results. Clearly the damn thing is spreading so it’s time to mask back up and we should be much slower to take them back off on the next down cycle.
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Policy should be mask indoors now since cases are high. Then, when cases get back to low levels vax requirement (not honor system like unvaxxed not present) or mask essentially indefinitely.
We should be requiring n95 masks now, at least in the hotspots, but lol USA