With COVID-19 hospitalizations plummeting and vaccinations increasing, some states are beginning to ponder the question: is it time to undo our restrictions?
This does not seem well considered to me, what with mutated strains developing an ever enlarging footprint.
I will take a pass on going to the theaters and restaurants here in NYC.
Some leaders apparently want to keep learning the lesson of Covid the hard way repeatedly.
That’s fine. Whole thing was a hoax to begin with, cooked up between Hunter Biden and his Chyna business partners to undermine The Greatest President Ever and get Pops elected.
Now we can all stop pretending this was anything other than crisis actors and fake news, and life can go back to normal.
This is the predictable result from the declining numbers and the lack of direction on the matter from the CDC. I have read the CDC is revising it’s guidance. They need to before we have a bounce.
Just get your vaccinations, people. The world is going to go crazy.
I will take a pass on going to the theaters and restaurants here in NYC.
Me too.
And, this is exactly how it never ends. Guess these bozos know nothing of the potential of the rapid spreading variants. What, 46 million vaccinated, almost 13% the total population, what’s the problem? Go for it, open everything up.
These decisions are not going to mix well with the new SARS_CoV-2 mutants.
I’m not sure what it would take for Americans to overcome their feelings of entitlement. Perhaps an Ebola-like “crash and bleed” superbug that wipes out over half the population? I’m not even certain that would make a difference. The Titanic is always unsinkable…until it sinks.
Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker (R) cited vaccinations as a reason for his reopening plan, which will allow restaurants in the state to operate without capacity restrictions as of March 1.
Anyone want to take bets we’ll see an increase in covid in MA mid/late March?
It’s fine to re-open restaurants in the next few months, just not without capacity restrictions, that’s the stupid part.
Hard for whom?
If the leaders are still in office and haven’t lost a loved one, it’s a lot less hard for them than for the families of the dead or those who’ve lost jobs or homes.
“WE DON’T YET KNOW THAT VACCINATION STOPS TRANSMISSION AND THEREFORE SPREAD” should be in the first paragraph of this article, but it is not mentioned at all. Not variants, but coronavirus generally. This is the key point in this discussion and needs to be stated clearly.
They are not leaders. They are ignorant if not malicious. This is the legacy of insanity and stupidity spawned by Rush, fox, and all the rest.
Wait until the sane and reasonably cautious health experts green light going back to “normal”, which in itself will never be possible. It’s also known as “life on life’s terms”. Ya wanna live going forward, do don’t fake the rules of life to suit some foolish egos.
Don’t want to offend anyone from MA. But they had restrictions on almost every state that wanted to travel there. And, all the while their numbers and deaths were climbing.
Governors, mayors and health departments across the country fail the marshmallow test.
Dr. Michael Osterholm has been predicting a big surge in 5-16 weeks, overwhelming hospitals worse than the last surge.
Are we soooo stupid that we’re not capable of learning a damn thing?
Nothing says stupid and maliciously, murderously dangerous more than the current seditious version of the Republican Party
That’s what this is. Baker, for example, had been very good. But it’s coming time to give in to the Covid fatigue, and the demands of community business leaders.
Even Cuomo, the Covid hardass, is doing stuff that doesn’t quite make sense.
Why are about 40%+ of Americans such hopeless goddamned idiots? They hear a rumor that vaccine is on the way: “Great, this evening I’ll jump into a mosh pit!”
IDIOTS
so as the firefighters manage to sweep the combustible debris away from the fire and start to subdue the fire & get it headed toward being under control
… a bunch of people want to resume tossing combustible stuff back on the fire
… because avoiding throwing combustible debris on the fire is too inconvenient