Damn, Canada is at 72.8% of population with 1 shot.
That is impressive.
US only at 60.2%
smh
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I have posted a lot of links to articles. Which one was this?
and we had a huge head start on canada too 
COVID probably is giving Canada the nice treatment
but yeah theyâre killing it with the vaccinations. Many in my family felt very smug that the US was all vaccinated and our Canadian relatives should be jealous. Was a lot of hoopla when I pointed out the Economist article that much of the developed world has since left the US vaccination rates in the dust.
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Canada also had mask mandates, distancing in schools, travel restrictions, etc. In general they seemed to get behind the whole public health thing. Or maybe itâs just the Canadians I know.
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Looking at the stats, where the U.S. really falls down is vaccination rates for people under age 40 or so.
Vaccination rates for seniors are pretty good, though it looks like the oldest may not be getting it as opposed to âyoungerâ old folks (age 65-74). As I said elsewhere, the issue for the very oldest people may be theyâre extremely dependent on others to get them to medical care, even vaccines. If that activity has dropped, then they donât get vaccinated.
NA, sorry about your stepson. Thatâs rough!
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School board meeting tonight. It shall be good times for sure. School starts in 1 week.
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same here. except 3 weeks to school start. sitting right up front so i can hear it all!
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Here is another example of how bad science is being done by non scientists who donât have any idea what they are talking about. Or maybe do, and are just lying for clicks.
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/politifact-swings-and-misses-at-desantis-on-student-masks/
This is defends the claim that â not a âwell-grounded scientific justificationâ for student masking.â
The âevidenceâ is a single observational study that does not find mask mandates in florida to be statistically significant. It does not report itâs sensitivity, ie how big an effect masks mandates would need to have to be detected. It does not, as far as I can tell, give a measured confidence interval (or perhaps credible interval) of the effect of mask mandates. And it carefully goes out of its way to disclaim its results as being severely limited.
The author of the article says the study finds â finds no significant difference in viral spreadâ, without mentioning the difference between statistical significance and effect size. The wording is ambiguous, perhaps carefully so, perhaps not. The author has a phd in public policy from harvard, so presumably knows the difference. My guess would be the word choice is careful.
His phd thesis is titled âIQ and Immigration Policyâ. I recall it generated a lot of controversy a few years ago.
Science is about putting the truth first. So many people writing these articles seem to be propagandists working for think tanks. I wish they would at least put peoples health first, but they do not. They are the torchbearers of the same nihilistic sophists who have threatened the seeking of truth since ancient greece.
Here is the study by the way. It seems a fine study.
How did it go? RP came up from work late and the school wasnât streaming the meeting so I missed it. Not that it really matters. Iowa, so schools have no authority on masks.
CA here, daughter started last Thursday, she says kids are wearing masks, though there are more than few covered mouths but exposed noses so those are kind of useless.
Weâll see how it goes. Fingers crossed.
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Our (western suburb) district had a meeting last week. I was on vacation so I didnât tune in. When I have a spare 3 hours I need to watch the you tube version. From reports it was a doozy (including one mom in our neighborhood comparing masks at school to the stars Nazis made Jewish people wear).
School started last weekâŚ
TAMPA (WFLA) â The Hillsborough County School Board will hold an Emergency School Board Meeting on Wednesday, Aug. 18, from 1-3:30 p.m. due to rising COVID-19 cases across the county.
As of 7 a.m., Monday, 5,599 students and 316 employees in Hillsborough County Public Schools are in isolation or quarantine. Isolation refers to individuals who have tested positive for COVID-19 while quarantine refers to those who have had close contact with a positive case.
That is just COVID âseasonâ for Florida.
Weird how 2021 is different from 2020. @Marcie - how is your twitter feed coping with the situation?
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Bump, @Marcie
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Comments like this make me 
On the subject of employer vaccine mandates one of my Facebook friends referred to it as rape. No, just⌠no. I donât even know how I can continue to be friends with someone so insensitive.
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Yeah, because a symbol you need to wear to mark you as âundesirableâ is exactly like wearing a safety device that is recommended for everyone.
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I watched parts of the most recent county board (rejected masks) and school board (supports masks) and the anti-mask crowd is just nuts. I ran a few errands last night and nearly everyone was wearing a mask. These anti-maskers are a passionate and vocal but apparently a small fraction of the population.
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