11-23-2021, 05:09 AM
(11-22-2021, 07:27 PM)kalakoa Wrote: Adopting a "Safe Access" program would allow for lesser restrictions. Mitch apparently won't participate.
If Safe Travels really works, then we don't need mask mandates or capacity limits, and it's $100K/day well-spent (where does that money come from?)
If these programs need to be permanent, then let's stop screwing around with "temporary" emergency declarations so people can make plans around the new world order.
I'm weary of restrictions, but I'm even more tired of the fantasy that things will go "back to normal" just as soon as we reach the ever-receding goalposts.
That goal post (herd immunity) won't be reached in the USA as a whole, due to the vaccines major short comings and the calander period an area was first hit hard. Some communities and nations have reached natural herd immunity because they were fortunate enough to be hit hard in the early stages of the pandemic (Feb, March, April, May, June 2020) and then nailed again by the alpha variant in second death wave between 2020 and 2021, that allowed them to reach herd immunity before the bulk of the vaccine was introduced that destroyed any hope for herd immunity.
Those places would be, but not limited to; New York, Sweden, Italy, smaller communities such as the Amish who purposely exposed themselves in mass to the original SARS-CoV-2. These examples are communities or nations that haven't had 3rd and 4th death waves like we see in heavily vaccinated nations like Isreal. Infection rates are imperfect indicators due to the ratio of testing that can result in what appears to be higher infection rates, but only because testing ratio was higher. So the death waves are a bit more telling.
The state of Hawaii is unfortunately one of the places that experienced very little original first season exposure to covid19 and in reality, we're exiting the first death wave now but likely stepping right into the second wave at this time. Don't be at all surprised if we see numbers as high as we saw in the wave we're now exiting but throughout the new year, perhaps climbing Inna's early as December, perhaps peaking between January and February or shortly thereafter.
You can see these trends using the New York times result in a Google search of Covid-19 stats. Just select the desired nation, state, region city accordingly and death counts results in the Google results page.
New World Order? That ship already sailed.