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It is still a pandemic. It's still spreading across continents in waves. Endemic means it belongs to a specific group or region, though the US definitely seems to be working to make that the case for us. Sure, it very likely will exist long-term, like influenzas, and hopefully with better vaccination rates we'll get mortality numbers closer to those, but we aren't there yet.
I’m suing the term just as others are with regards to it being endemic in humans. It’s not ever going away. I’m not even the first/only one here to say that. The sooner folks accept that, the sooner they can accept the reality of life moving forward.
Much to the relief of most politicians, I am not involved in the decision of who “needs” to die. None of us really are.
The basis of society is people agreeing not to kill each other. No, most laws nowadays don't have to do with my safety. All of those came after people saying, "I won't kill you if you won't kill me" and then carrying that forward several more steps. If we're not agreeing to take care of each other, what is the point?
The problem arises when your definition of “taking care of each other” become indistinguishable to me from “controlling you with the violence of the state because I don’t like the choices you make” which is how the vast majority of the shit y’all all talk about reads to me. But in that note, I think we’re venturing into that other thread’s territory.
You’re making a lot of assumptions there that aren’t necessarily true there, Bucko.
It’s not worth arguing with him. He keeps doing this: comes into the thread, makes a few reasonable posts, then says something shitty and very dumb.
The messaging here is bad. You can pass it on if you get a breakthrough infection, which is still incredibly rare.CDC shares 'pivotal discovery' on Covid-19 breakthrough infections that led to new mask guidance
A new study shows the Delta Covid-19 variant produced similar amounts of virus in vaccinated and unvaccinated people if they get infected -- illustrating a key motivation behind the federal guidance that now recommends most fully vaccinated Americans wear masks indoors.www.cnn.com
CDC study shows three-fourths of people infected in Massachusetts coronavirus outbreak were vaccinated but few required hospitalization — The Washington Post
A sobering scientific analysis published Friday found that three-quarters of the people infected during an explosive coronavirus outbreak fueled by the delta variant were fully vaccinated. The report on the Massachusetts cases, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, offers key...
Basically, with Delta, if you catch it, you have the same virus load whether you are vaccinated or not. The vaccination has no effect as reducing the spread, thus the mask guidance has been updated again.
A vaccine will still make it less likely you will catch COVID, but if you do catch it, you are just as likely to spread it to other people.
The problem is that 'masking up indoors' is not functioning normally. Anything involving eating, drinking, singing, even movie going is lessened. And for me teaching SUUUUUCKS in masks. Specifically I teach at a school that has a large deaf population, and it's EXTREMELY detrimental to that student population which relies on lip reading. It's not a viable long term solution.
Yes, I said "pretty normally" which isn't 100%, and mask *and vaccinate*, which would hopefully allow for less masking in scenarios like teaching. Point being that if businesses want to stay open at capacity and have a living workforce available, masks are the way to go at stores and such. Right now we have a variant as contagious as chicken pox, concessions need to be made.
Not all students qualify for interpreters/note takers. There’s a wide spectrum of needs and there isn’t infinite resources.
At this point, we are past the point of shutdowns being effective. If this were a month or two ago, shutdowns could have helped us out, but the delta variant is so contagious and so prevalent that epidemiologically speaking, the cat is already out of the bag.
Acutally, breakthrough infections are becoming very common. It's just rare that you will get really bad symptoms if you have the vaccine. There was a story over the weekend of a woman who died after getting vaccinated and then contracting Covid, but she had some other risk factors/comorbid conditions.
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As a special needs parent, can confirm.
