Some very strange stuff going on. CDC was forced to partially backtrack on its recommendation. Finally now, vaccinated people should wear masks indoors in areas with substantial or high levels of transmission. Vaccinated people may transmit the virus.
Here's the catch. How do we know what areas have high levels of transmission? There is one state which I will not name that had travel advisory warnings because of the high numbers of infections. On 7/23 they had 13,256 new infections. On 7/24 they had 14,258. Since Saturday there have been no numbers posted anywhere. The state has decided to give out only weekly numbers. haha!!! Let's bury our heads in the sand and pretend there is no COVID-19. At least four states have not posted any numbers since Saturday. And it is working!!! The new cases in the US have gone down from around 68,000 a day to under 40,000 a day!!! If all the states did that, we will have COVID-19 wiped out in no time. (I am being facetious)
Meanwhile in our tiny county of less than 28,000 people, we had 27 new cases over the weekend with 64 cases in the last 14 days. The public health officer stepped down 6/30, and the temporary acting health officer has yet to make any statement. Since he is only acting, he probably won't be making any decisions about anything. Meanwhile, vaccinated vulnerable people are now attending church and going shopping without masks, because the CDC director said they could. This redneck community has a very low rate of vaccination, and the anti-vaxxers were always anti-maskers. So now no one is wearing masks anywhere, except for a few paranoid people like me. I think we have a real disaster in the making. I hope I am wrong.
CDC calls for a return to masks for vaccinated Americans in certain places, schools
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday cited new science on the transmissibility of the delta variant in revising its mask guidance to now recommend that everyone in areas with substantial or high levels of transmission -- vaccinated or not -- wear a mask in public, indoor...
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Here's the catch. How do we know what areas have high levels of transmission? There is one state which I will not name that had travel advisory warnings because of the high numbers of infections. On 7/23 they had 13,256 new infections. On 7/24 they had 14,258. Since Saturday there have been no numbers posted anywhere. The state has decided to give out only weekly numbers. haha!!! Let's bury our heads in the sand and pretend there is no COVID-19. At least four states have not posted any numbers since Saturday. And it is working!!! The new cases in the US have gone down from around 68,000 a day to under 40,000 a day!!! If all the states did that, we will have COVID-19 wiped out in no time. (I am being facetious)
Meanwhile in our tiny county of less than 28,000 people, we had 27 new cases over the weekend with 64 cases in the last 14 days. The public health officer stepped down 6/30, and the temporary acting health officer has yet to make any statement. Since he is only acting, he probably won't be making any decisions about anything. Meanwhile, vaccinated vulnerable people are now attending church and going shopping without masks, because the CDC director said they could. This redneck community has a very low rate of vaccination, and the anti-vaxxers were always anti-maskers. So now no one is wearing masks anywhere, except for a few paranoid people like me. I think we have a real disaster in the making. I hope I am wrong.