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I agree with this general sentiment.

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2020/10/26/oxford-astrazeneca-coronavirus-vaccine-reportedly-triggers-immune-response-among-adults-.html?__twitter_impression=true Some good news here from AZN/Oxford

Its a large part of. This administration has submarined science and health purposely. The constant undermining of the CDC has been disgusting. Any science oriented person i know is ****ing tired of it. I just posted two instances of anti mask stuff from the admin. Many of these anti mask people are pro trump. Funny how that works.

See my post above. The anti mask movement is driven by ignorance and anti science rhetoric.

My God Dr. Atlas just tweeted a conspiracy theory about masking not working and being harmful from a AEIR just last week. And the president made fun of Biden's mask during the last debate. The anti science shit has been accelerating in this country for decades. We've already seen it manifesting itself in anti vax and anti agw conspiracy. This pandemic just amplifies all the existing weaknesses.

How many posts do you plan on making defending ignorant and angry people defying public health guidance and then blaming the rest of us for it?

We need leadership.

Lol.

We might want to revisit this in a month or two, to be fair. The spread in Europe is much worse right now. They managed much better than the US early in the summer but also got too complacent.

Influence. Are you even trying right now?

Yeah messaging is good.

Federally mask mandate is a non starter. Asking cops to enforce mask wearing especially in minority communities is just asking for trouble. The essential problem has always been the lack of leadership and the administration undermining public health and general science. CDC needs to be taking the front role and working with state health departments.

Standard for data from conservatives in 2020: "I saw a lot of out of state hats"

What is it? Are we over it? Or are we taking it seriously? Blaming the southern spread in June/July/August on tourism is silly.

It is real. But the majority of people still care about this and are following public health guidance. Follow the conversation.

It seems like you're the one who wanted to makes it political. Cool.

This doesn't support your assertion that the "majority of people are over caring about this" if the Rt is well under the Ro if the virus.

Some fatigue doesn't mean the majority of people stopped caring.

The data just doesn't support people are living their lives completely normally. Mobility data is well below baseline and mask use has come up generally. It's why there isn't 500k cases and 1000 and 1000s of covid deaths a day. https://covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-of-america?view=social-distancing&tab=trend

You saying this doesn't make it true. We would be seeing far more rapid spread (close to Ro) if the majority of people weren't following public health guidance.

Don't worry its a La Nina so the MA and the SE will be warm and snowless.

Sounds like Judah needs help.

I think its increased death reporting delay...but I don't know for sure.

Decent mask study (This is peer reviewed/published) A cotton mask led to an approximately 20% to 40% reduction in virus uptake compared to no mask In contrast, when a mask was attached to the mannequin that released virus, cotton and surgical masks blocked more than 50% of the virus transmission, whereas the N95 mask showed considerable protective efficacy (Fig. 2C). There was a synergistic effect when both the virus receiver and virus spreader wore masks (cotton masks or surgical masks) to prevent the transmission of infective droplets/aerosols (Fig. 2D and E). https://msphere.asm.org/content/5/5/e00637-20#F2

From a hospitalizations standpoint, the wave in the UK is about 1/3rd as bad so far as the early April wave. There were close to 20k people in hospital then, now there about 6500.