Coronavirus (political)

[SunnySide]

Originally Posted by punch it in

Dude people fucking travel. It isn’t about where you live so much as it is if you are vaccinated and red states are lagging. Jesus its like talking to a wall.

With the Delta variant, 25% or so of the hospitalizations are fully vaccinated people.

Covid is here to stay imo.

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States across the country are also seeing a growing number of people with breakthrough cases end up in hospitals. In Michigan, for example, 28 percent of hospitalizations and 24 percent of deaths, between Oct. 7 and Nov. 5, were among fully vaccinated individuals.

“People don’t realize how high the risk is to transmit the virus to a vulnerable family member,” said David Rubin, a pediatrician and director of PolicyLab at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. “I don’t think there’s a sense that anyone is holding back this Thanksgiving. If people were smart, they’d quarantine themselves if they live in a place with high transmission.”

Rubin has been watching Covid patterns since the beginning of the pandemic and he suspects that the spikes in cities like Chicago, Detroit, Green Bay and Minneapolis are a harbinger for Boston, New York and Philadelphia.

“We can’t afford, literally because lives depend on it, to let this pandemic recede in people’s minds when it hasn’t receded in our hospital beds, in our morgues,” Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot told POLITICO.

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/1...-winter-523109


We arent going to beat Covid .. but the notion we should stop trying to mitigate it is just dumb.