Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

His restaurant here is filled with people violating mask mandates and ignoring social distancing.

 

Can we close the borders to Florida?

 

Packed day and night in Murrells Inlet SC.

 

Today we’ve all been tired and kind of lethargic, and I have joint aches and a headache. A few chills, too, but if this is the worst of it, that’s a trade off I’d make every day.

Being fully vaccinated has done wonders for my mood — as hopeful as I’ve been since my Captain Tripps post on the first page of this thread.

 

The vaccine may not work against the new variants.

 

Then they're stupid and that's on them.

 

My wife had one bad night, with a 100 fever and felt like crap the day after. I had virtually no symptoms except that I slept an extra two or three hours on the second and third day after.

 

RutROHgers

 

In the US, we're in what should be the peak of the variant influence. Cases on a plateau, even slightly rising in some areas. Hospitalizations still dropping but at a much slower rate than previous.

I'm optimistic that we'll see something like Israel, who had a 16-day plateau and then things started dropping rapidly again. Mass vaccination turns plateaus into drops very quickly.

 

Idaho has shut down the state legislature because six members have Covid.

Too bad the Hitler Youth burned all those masks on the front steps several weeks ago.

 

Michigan has had a noticeable rise in the last couple weeks. The governor and the health department have blamed it heavily on youth sports, which is only pissing off the youth sports people more after the state banned winter contact sports practices until late January, and plan on mandating antigen testing. I think my folks are due for their second vaccination this week.

Minnesota is up somewhat but not too much. Minnesota claims they're ahead of the curve in vaccination, but I'm not really buying it, as I'm unlikely to be eligible for weeks. Right now the figures are 1 in 4 statewide have received at least one dose and 1 in 10 in the non-senior, non-health care, non-preexisting conditions adult age group, though stress eating has probably ensured that I'm obese enough to qualify if I asked. Maybe we just have more Oles and Lenas they have to give shots to. A friend of mine drove three and a half hours to corporate HQ in North Dakota for a shot. I didn't think of it, mostly because it would be 4 1/2 for me and as a single man who lives alone and didn't have much of a social life even before all this, I figure if there's anyone who can afford to wait their turn it's me.

Elsewhere, a highly seeded team elsewhere got kicked out of their section boys hockey tournament not for a positive, but for contact tracing from an opponent late in the regular season who had an outbreak. I can only imagine the hell-raising and lawyering that has been going on down there the last few days. At the very least, I would not want to be a junior or a parent on the outbreak team next winter when those teams meet.

Another factor that could really help things on both the transmission prevention and psychological fronts is that we appear to be officially having an early spring after a mild winter. The bad news is I've already had a couple bad allergy days (and seem to be having another one right now for the crime of taking an exercise walk).

 

Just got my second shot. Wife got hers this past Thursday.