I went into the city a couple weeks ago and there was an all hands meeting led by a guy who is based in NYC and he did the meeting remotely from his apartment before coming into the office. My one colleague who had come in with me was like why are we sitting here dialing into the meeting 
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my state does not have a mandate either way (they are allowed by district choice). now the districts are lining up to figure out if they will (1) mandate masks, or (2) mandate them only among the unvaccinated, or (3) leave it to each individual choice.
(3) sounds like it wonāt do anything to prevent spread, right? (2) will bring out all the morans yelling about their HIPPA rights and thenā¦(1) will bring out whatever it brings.
should be a fun couple weeks as we gear up for school!
Now every time I see āHIPPAā I think of that Hippo cartoon. 
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@1695814 Use the second to last link, the one with all the numbers. 
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post hoc ergo propter hoc
āScienceā by anecdote 
(Most of) The infections positive tests they mention happened within the first week of school. Have we all forgotten about the incubation period? Like so many of the infections last school year, these are incidental to school, with still little to no transmission shown in schools.
Also, you realize that parents in Iowa, Florida, Texas, etc, can still send their children to school in masks, right? Masks themselves have not been banned in any states, just the forced covering of kidsā faces against their/parentsā will.
Yesterday, the Salt Lake County health department (currently headed by the former state epidemiologist who did the daily state level pressers until she switched jobs) issued a mask mandate for K-6 schools. Today the Salt Lake County Council overturned the K-6 mask mandate. Havenāt read any of the articles yet, just saw the headlines.
You realize that if masks are better at keeping germs in than at keeping them out, that each person mostly cares about what the other people are wearing, not about what they, themselves, are wearing.
And do they even make child-sized respirators?
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This doesnāt get into masks but more into highly vaccinated v lower vaccinated areas. I have a bad feeling this is going to get worse before it gets better, and possibly much worse in areas with low vaccination rates.
https://www.motherjones.com/politicsā¦&ICID=ref_fark
Found these two tweets in the article particularly interesting
Today, the 5 most vaccinated states (14M people) had 580 people in hospital, 12 deaths
In the 5 least vaccinated states (16M people)? 6,600 hospitalized, 104 deaths
Per capita , least vaccinated states have 10X hospitalizations and 7X deaths So yeah, vaccines are working
Actually, while vaccination rates for kids under 12 are identical (0%) across states, Infection numbers are not
In Massachusetts, about 250 kids under 10 years of age infected last week
In Florida, it was about 9,000
In Louisiana, it was about 1600
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So maybe thereās something other than vaccines driving those numbers?
What were the numbers in Massachusetts in August 2020, when basically 0% of all ages were vaccinated?
Iām not saying itās aliens, but itās aliens.
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I mean, if you want to attribute the changing seasons to aliens instead of the tilt of the Earthās axis, you do you, Mr Tripper.
@Marcie, can you post that graph highlighting the same date for Florida and Louisiana? Thanks.
Are you saying that Florida and Lousiana arenāt on the same Earth?
I think she is saying that on Aug 11, 2020 MA had a 7 day overage of 358 new cases while FL had 5,831 and LA had 1,164. I still canāt find her pretty graph but I did get to a graph that gave me the data. See Link.
Things got worse in the summer in the south last year too. Maybe I can do this image thing.
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Florida:
Louisiana:
Itās really nothing fancy; I just googled ā[state] covid statsā & it popped up the NYT tracker stats.
Ugh. That is the worst cat.
Sure, maybe itās hot and everyone in Texas and Florida has been inside for the last 6 weeks, and itās seasonal. But itās mostly seasonal for the un vaccinated, at least the ones ending up in the ICUs.
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