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1 minute ago, powderfreak said:

People in Mass not going about their business?

Out by me? Yea. Other places, meh. I know a couple that havent been out of the house except twice in 18 months. Still hose down their grocery’s. 

10 minutes ago, natedizel said:

If your vaxxed thats that BS.

It’s called CYA from the legal department. 

3 minutes ago, Bostonseminole said:

sweet, I lived in Dallas for a few years, well McKinney, north of Dallas, hot!! and the freaking dead Cicada's all over.. not sure how bad they are this year.

Lol. I hear them! I kinda like it down here. My retirement house is in North Carolina on the water and I like it there a little better. But I’m for sure moving at some point. 

1 minute ago, Bostonseminole said:

Pfizer sooner than Moderna I think

Both probably. I actually think Moderna is a little more durable maybe 

1 minute ago, Bostonseminole said:

your on vacation or work? nothing better to do but to go to Walmart?

Lol. Kinda vacation. I took my kids to see my mother for a few days. She wanted something at Walmart so we went.

9 minutes ago, DotRat_Wx said:

How does this affect Dave?

 

https://whdh.com/news/cdc-adds-seven-destinations-to-very-high-covid-19-travel-risk-list/

I wouldn’t think much. I think their all vaxed. And I think they needed a test to come home anyway. Could be wrong. 

Got to Dallas about 1. Staying in Farmers Branch. Bout 97. Dew point is 72. Feels like blast furnace. I kinda like it.  Hitting the pool soon. Stopped and got something to eat and went to Walmart. Petty normal here. Maybe saw one or two masks. Wouldn’t know anything was going on. People going about their business.  Pretty refreshing actually. 
Wish I could retire and move out of silly land. 

9 minutes ago, kdxken said:

I believe he was referring to the disagreeable mutation the has infected the thread.

Lololol. 
She’s awful. I have her on ignore so I dont see her junk.

12 minutes ago, BuffaloWeather said:

Well starting the 11th my work is back to wearing masks full time. We have over 20k employees. Substantial/high risk according to this map have to wear mask. Was fun while it lasted. 

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#datatracker-home

Join the club. 
Nobody really does where I am. We keep them down around our chin unless we get up and move around. The day after the mandate went back, everybody who could stayed home again. We went from about 30% occupancy back down to about 10%. Why go in and wear the stupid thing when you can sit home on Zoom.

3 minutes ago, mreaves said:

Is it possible that things would have been much worse without masking?

CDC own publication says maybe 1.5%. Basically down in the noise 

21 minutes ago, tunafish said:

Here's a June 2021 study:

' Face masks effectively limit the probability of SARS-CoV-2 transmission'
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/372/6549/1439.full 

"Abstract
Airborne transmission by droplets and aerosols is important for the spread of viruses. Face masks are a well-established preventive measure, but their effectiveness for mitigating severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) transmission is still under debate. We show that variations in mask efficacy can be explained by different regimes of virus abundance and are related to population-average infection probability and reproduction number. For SARS-CoV-2, the viral load of infectious individuals can vary by orders of magnitude. We find that most environments and contacts are under conditions of low virus abundance (virus-limited), where surgical masks are effective at preventing virus spread. More-advanced masks and other protective equipment are required in potentially virus-rich indoor environments, including medical centers and hospitals. Masks are particularly effective in combination with other preventive measures like ventilation and distancing."

Yes. It’s worked so well in other countries that are very mask compliant. 

1 hour ago, rclab said:

Are they playing the Mets? As always ….

They’re off today 

Thank god local sports ball team wont get beat tonight 

Just now, Damage In Tolland said:

Beer 

Yankees. 

16 minutes ago, winterwx21 said:

Dr. Eric Topol wrote a good article on how America is flying blind when it comes to the Delta variant...

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/aug/09/america-is-flying-blind-when-it-comes-to-the-delta-variant

 

I wonder if the lack of counting of breakthrough cases in our country is because they just want to keep calling it "a pandemic of the unvaccinated" here. We know from data from other countries like the UK and Israel that there are a huge amount of breakthrough cases. And as Eric Topol mentions in the article, some countries are reporting that 10% to 20% of their hospitalizations are in vaccinated people. In fact I just read an article that talked about the fact that the UK just released data on their Delta variant hospitalizations from July 19th to August 2nd. Of the 1,467 people that were hospitalized, 512 people (34.9%) were vaccinated. You have to wonder why other countries are reporting that a much higher percentage of people in hospitals are vaccinated. The United States just is not being honest about the fact that the Delta variant is causing a significant threat to vaccinated people. I was just reading about the outbreak that Iceland is having right now. They thought Covid was over, but now they're having a big outbreak due to the Delta variant. In Iceland, 93% of the population over 16 years old is vaccinated. Yet they're seeing an outbreak. The vaccines just are not stopping the transmission of the Delta variant.

Like masking and distancing has done so much to get rid of this world wide.  So by all means, let’s do more if it. 
Pretty clear at this point the vax is only good for about 6-8 months. 
If your sick, stay home, drink fluids, take Tylenol. If your really sick, go to the hospital. Basically the same as we’ve done for the last several generations. This isnt going way. Learn to live with it or live in a closet with 5 masks and a face shield and wither your life away scared shyte less. 
I’ll take booster if it’s offered, and everyone should get vaxed. But society is going to have to move on or we become enslaved to it. 
Myself, I’d rather be 6 feet under than live masked, distanced and scared.

7 minutes ago, STILL N OF PIKE said:

That’s the plan 

Just don’t engage her. A little self control. If you don’t respond to it, there’s little reason to stay. She justs want attention. So why give it to her. Ignore it.

Going to Dallas in the morning. 5:30 am flight. Sitting at the bar at Embassy Suites in Eastie. Supposed to be a furnace all week out there. Hi 90’s, lows about 80. 70 plus dew point.

33 minutes ago, dendrite said:

But 90% of the population is fully vaccinated. Round their population up to 10 mill for easy math and that's 9 million vaxxed versus 1 million unvaxxed...i.e. 209 out of 9 million versus 115 out of 1 million.

You can show anything you want using percentages to manipulate data. 

28 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Maybe this is the Delta Tau Chi variant?

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mr day, you have no grade point average.

2 hours ago, HIPPYVALLEY said:

Almost like they are expecting another shutdown? 

No, that’s not the reason. Pressure from the left. 

8 minutes ago, HIPPYVALLEY said:

CNN has literally become the fear porn network.

Covid is a cottage industry now. 

Back to the pool. Fook Covid. 

6 minutes ago, PhineasC said:

So it sounds like the rapid 15 min tests are gone now? Is that what you guys are seeing? Last two people who told me they got tested told me they have to wait 3 days for results, like the old days. We never got tested so I don’t know much about the process and options. I always figured that the rapid test was a joke. Wonder how many false cases that the thing drummed up?

Rapid test is fine. There should be a good one by now. If there’s not, it’s malfeasance. There’s been plenty of time to make a good one. That’s the way they test for the flu. Rapid test using lateral flow methodology. This is what we should be using instead of that horse shyte PCR test. A rapid antigen test would tell you who is actually shedding enough virus to infect others. 

5 minutes ago, Hoosier said:

"Back to school" is going to be a bumpy ride.  Lots of quarantines and at least temporary shifts back to virtual learning I think.  

I feel bad for parents with unvaccinated kids.  Yeah, kids tend to get milder illness or even be asymptomatic, but nobody wants their kid to be the one who gets really sick.  Something I was thinking about is that elementary school kids tend to be in one, maybe 2 classrooms all day, and nobody in that age group has been able to be vaccinated yet.  If someone in the classroom is carrying the virus, that group of kids will have hours to be exposed, potentially taking in a huge viral load.  Unlike middle/high school students who move around the school more and at least some of whom have been vaccinated. 

A counterargument may be that some schools were open in-person last time without having issues.  Yes, but delta is a different animal.  It's going to be harder to stop it in schools and there will be a lot more schools in-person this time, at least to start. 

Massachusetts mandated in person, 5 days a week. 
My kids went to private school last year. 5 days, full time. One kindergartner was out with the COVID sniffles for a week. That’s it. No teacher or staff had it. And no adult was vaxed until at least March/April. 
Kids need to be back in school. 

10 minutes ago, NorEastermass128 said:

Uk sort of plateaued. Definitely not a sharp decline at all. I’d expect the same here I guess. 

It’ll burn itself out to a low baseline. Once enough people get infected or vaxed, they’ll be fewer vectors. But it could take another couple of years.