It’s not necessarily goofy, it’s just going to be completely useless for trying to assess current trends. When you look at yesterday’s deaths on Worldometers, for example, we see only 8 deaths. But that doesn’t mean only 8 people died on 8/26. It means that as of 8/26, we know of 8 people who died on 8/26. That 8/26 number is going to increase as reported deaths come in over the next few weeks. But when those deaths come in, it will show up as an increase to the 8/26 death count, rather than a same-day reported death.
Other states (including Florida until recently), report daily deaths as “number of deaths we formally filed today, regardless of when those deaths occurred”. That’s not a perfect measure–we really would like to know the date of death rather than the date of filing–but it’s much better at describing current trends.
I have recently adjusted based on breakthrough cases and I think there is waning immunity (I think the only debate is how much). My clients are back to everyone masking.
I’m not necessarily masking in stores. If it’s not busy and voluminous I may only put it on for checkout. Small spaces it’s going on. I do go into my neighbors houses unmasked. (They are vaxxed).
On the mild good news front, I know personally a couple people who have decided to get or have gotten the vaccine recently.
Don’t underestimate that there is a very large group of people who aren’t anti-vax, but for whatever reason weren’t convinced they should or need to take it. Much of it is just apathy. These people are now trickling in and getting the vaccine in reasonably large numbers.
In a functional society, these people that consumed horse medicine because they wanted freedom from government coercion should be forced to rely entirely on warnings on the horse medicine package plus their glorious personal freedom plus their OWN RESEARCH on how to best manage their situation. DON’T LET THE NAZIS AT POISON CONTROL TELL YOU HOW TO LIVE YOUR (HOPEFULLY HOURS OF REMAINING) LIFE!
One of my daughter’s friends (high school) has COVID, but so far he’s not feeling horrible. Run down, mostly, from what she said. He’s vaxxed. We got a close contact call from school yesterday, likely because of him. Her best friend got tested yesterday and stayed out of school because he’s a very close contact to the pozzed kid and fortunately, he’s negative. She carpools with him four days a week, so that was something we were keeping a close eye on.
Of course, now I’m feeling a little sick, but a cold has been running through our house (we’ve had multiple negative at-home tests in the past week), so I’m not particularly concerned for myself.
EDIT: If anyone was wondering, the school said even though she’s a close contact, she can still go to school as long as she’s vaxxed, wears a mask, and has no symptoms.
they aren’t “large numbers” - not nearly large enough to make any significant progress. Yes there’s been a very slight bump up in doses administered lately but there’s no indication that we’re going to e.g. get to 85%+ fully vaxxed this year, or hell, even next.
I think a lot of it depends on how the numbers are distributed, like if the lion’s share of the new vaccinations are highly vulnerable folks in the shithole states that are currently in the 30%s that’s significant progress and will save lives. If a ton of it is New England states rounding themselves up to 80% of eligible people vaxxed, that’s great and all but doesn’t help as much.