Monday, August 09, 2021

Here we goooooo

 

Well, this is going to be a complete !$@%! disaster, and the >3000 undergrads aren't even here yet.  (The 154 per 100,000 represents a total of eight cases, all in a single daycare, last week.  And the owner apparently finally told her employees to get vaccinated or get out. Still.)

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  1. Today we had 48 new cases per 100000. That's more than double last Monday.

    8 cases in a single daycare is insane and so preventable.

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    1. MAYBE all the adults should get vaccinated!

      We were down to one case a week, which is still some ridiculously high number per 100,000 (only 4000 people here!), but they only come in units of one, so...

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  2. July 31 our 7 day average of daily cases/100,000 was zero. Now it's 13. And a lot of the students aren't back yet. But at least the university is requiring both masks and vaccinations, of faculty/staff and students, and K12 is requiring masks. And so far only 6% of the students have requested a vaccine waiver.

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    1. 0.17% of our students have gotten a vaccine waiver! The next college over announced that if you got all the other vaccines to live in the dorms, no waiver for you.

      (Our rate looks terrible because ONE case a week is 25 per 100,000 and they only come in units of one. There was a week last year when 200 students all got the plague at once...)

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  3. Today we had 61 new cases per 100,000.

    And DH called the school district and everything is the worst case scenario, except that kids who test positive for covid get to quarantine for up to 10 days even if they're asymptomatic. More details in the comments on my blog. But the short is that they're not planning to even keep track of the number of kids with covid at the school level, much less the classroom level.

    We're taking tomorrow off from work to get DC2 enrolled in home schooling and to undo all the things we had in place for school starting next week.

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    1. So much AARGH. I'm sorry. That sounds really frustrating.

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  4. Now we're up to 252, which is, like, 2 cases a day.

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  5. A third secretary in my department lost a family member to Covid, the first since vaccines have been available. He must have been one of the two deaths yesterday, which means he was in his 60s. His daughter and several of his grandkids are immunocompromised... why would he not get vaccinated? This is all so senseless.

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    1. well, you know, the whole pandemic is a hoax, after all. We're only up to 873,000 excess deaths! (I am horrified at the though that we're totally going to get to a million. A MILLION.)

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    2. Oh, pardon me, that included some pneumonia. The Economist thinks 721,000 through a month ago...

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