Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

I want to think it's just eastern/central Europe's 'turn' in the hole- it has evaded the explosions of other geographical areas.
This thing has had a mothership over one particular region at any given time in the pandemic.
I was zero years old when Seattle was an epicenter. Then Italy. Then it was New York. So on.

 

Basically, this a carbon copy of the surge the Upper Great Lakes had about 12 months ago. Minnesota is equally bad. Minnesota's a respectable 17th in statewide vaccination rate, with Wisconsin and Michigan hovering around the median. The biggest factor is that the weather has gone to shit, as is tradition, forcing people into confined indoor spaces. In this case, the whole 'pandemic of the unvaccinated' situation is basically the rule, though we had our first confirmed positive in our newsroom since last winter this week (he seems to be fine). It seems like the smaller population of potential targets is being counteracted by the increased contagiousness of the variants and decreased mitigation strategies.

 

Conversely, rates have started dropping in many places in the Deep South now that Delta already burned through the population during air conditioning season. A lot of patches of yellow and blue counties, which mean even the CDC says masks are merely “recommended” for those localities. (The natives mostly haven’t bothered for a long while now.)

 

Apparently, stupid is fluent in Italian as well as English.

These Fools Thought a COVID Party Sounded Fun. Now They Are on Respirators. (thedailybeast.com)

 

She wanted a religious exemption from wearing a mask/getting tested. Really?

 

49 million have had it.

X million had it, but it was benign enough that there was no test and/or no confirmed diagnosis.

230 million have had at least one jab.

How the fuck can there be enough potential hosts left for this to be a thing?

 

If it was a legit problem regarding her religious practices she probably could have gotten one. When you are anti-vax and refuse take the vax or to be tested and there is not a legitimate history
of some religious belief that would be against it, I have little sympathy.

 

Indoor mask mandates resumed in Santa Cruz County at 11:59 p.m. last night. Should be fun today with the Thanksgiving rush having started, plus one of our managers' obsession with annual fund-raiser for the food bank (Claims we're in a competition with the Carmel store, which his wife happens to manage. Don't mind raising money for this charity, but damned if I'm gonna do it just so he can get a little nookie).

Mandate also extends to home visits. So, if someone outside immediate family were to come over, we'd all have to be masked inside. Should be fun on Tuesday when I'm covering the state juco volleyball playoffs.

 

Got my booster Sat, was fine but got sluggish Sun.

 

If you are an elected official doing anything other than saying "Please get vaccinated. It is safe and effective and will help your community. I understand we don't like mandates, but please talk to your doctor," you are unfit to serve.

 

It's akin to a wildfire. You have spots you think were fine, but flair up, spots you think were protected but get a spark to fly in or spots you think were burned, but there's a smouldering tree that explodes.

First, businesses are mandating testing more so we're catching more cases. There are enough who aren't vaccinated who are allowing this thing to smoulder which leads to break through infections and potential of others getting re-infected. A buddy of mine got his booster, but it still somehow broke through. He didn't show symptoms, but his job forced him to be tested so it was caught.