Good news: Santa Clara county is following the science and not dropping the mask mandate.
Bad news: All the damn vampires ...
* Santa Carla, close enough : )
Good news: Santa Clara county is following the science and not dropping the mask mandate.
So here's a question.
In the past week, 5 Blue states (CA, CO, DE, NJ, NY) have ended or will soon end their mask mandates. This is contrary to the what the CDC is currently advising. I know it is usually when the Red states do something like this heads start exploding about them not following the science. Well the CDC is the science, so why aren't they following it? I know California has scientists because almost everything I buy is known to the State of California to cause cancer. So maybe their scientists are smarter than those at the CDC.
So are these states following their own science or are the following Political Science that says there is an election in 9 months and people aren't happy?
CDC pleads for caution, but governors may be done listening
Caught seemingly off guard by the rapidity with which Democratic elected officials in states on both coasts have rolled back pandemic restrictions in recent days, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky urged continued caution on Wednesday, even as she acknowledged that approach is falling out of favor.news.yahoo.com
Bad news: All the damn vampires ...
I wonder about this doctor’s prediction:
https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1491609678916239363/
There will be some people I know that will continue to mask until their young kids can get the vaccine. Most others that are vaccinated will probably keep a mask around, to be used in crowded areas... or maybe just in case a local business requires it.
That will definitely be the case in Silicon Valley. Nobody wants to get sick or to bring home the disease and get their family sick. So most of those who have been doing what they are supposed to will continue to wear masks indoors until the infection rate goes down a bunch more. I suspect we’ll see less masking outdoors, though, and more eating out at restaurants (where people who rigidly follow the rules still somehow think you are immune from covid).
A colleague of mine from NY, triple vaxxed, who had already been infected in March 2020, just had his whole household catch covid from their four year old son who got it at school. My colleague has been sick in bed for 4 days. He felt well enough on the 2nd day to attend a zoom meeting, but since then he’s been missing. He said it was far worse than the flu, and the whole family has been in bad shape. Who’s looking for that when simply wearing an N95 when around other people can mitigate your chances of getting it?
And they say the virus will never go away so the risk will always be there. I just plan on wearing a mask in public in the foreseeable future and getting the latest vaccines when it's available, accepting the fact that we'll always have to live with it to some extent. Hopefully we won't see anymore heinous variants and can come to some sort of equilibrium.Exactly. They're going to lift restrictions when the risk gets low, not when the risk is gone. People will still get this after restrictions are lifted and will still die. I plan to do everything I can not to be in that group that jumps too soon.
And they say the virus will never go away so the risk will always be there.
Agreed, I'll be wearing my N95 any time I'm out regardless of what they say. At least with a cold or a flu its seasonal so you know to prepare but who knows with this thing.That's very true. But when they lift restrictions, I suspect it will still be much riskier than getting the flu for example. I could be wrong, but I think we're a long ways off, restrictions or not, from it being "safe" out there generally speaking. So I'll just keep being careful till I feel silly walking around in a mask all the time.
There will be some people I know that will continue to mask until their young kids can get the vaccine. Most others that are vaccinated will probably keep a mask around, to be used in crowded areas... or maybe just in case a local business requires it.
I have no doubt elections are playing a part in it.
This. They are probably gambling that they won't lose any left leaning voters by ending the mandate now while reducing the blowback from anti-mask patriots come voting time. Feb - Nov is an eternity in attention span to outrage.
Where are the left-leaning voters going to go?
I can tell you where they won't be and that's the hospital on a ventilator. Imagine spending all those years in medical school just to care for a bunch of pissed off selfish Trump supporters who refused to vaccinate. When all is said and done here they may need to re-think their hippocratic oath.Where are the left-leaning voters going to go?
I guess my question is: what's happening in states like Florida, where no one wears a mask and the state government has basically decided the pandemic isn't a thing? Are they having significantly higher case rates and deaths or is it about the same? Do these restrictions and mandates actually work?
I guess my question is: what's happening in states like Florida, where no one wears a mask and the state government has basically decided the pandemic isn't a thing? Are they having significantly higher case rates and deaths or is it about the same? Do these restrictions and mandates actually work?
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