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I expect NJ will lift outdoor mask mandate first by next month then last one is indoor masks by late summer/fall as NJ will no longer uses masks and social distancing by fall.NJ Gov Candidate Calls For Gathering Limit, Face Mask Lift By May
Jack Ciattarelli, a Republican candidate for NJ governor, is calling for the elimination of outdoor and indoor gathering limits by May 15.
They tend to be right behind...
I think you misunderstood my post. Whatever I quoted talked about removing distancing and then masks. According to the WHO (and I think the CDC also), distancing is more effective than masks.
I have no idea how this comment is related to my post. I didn't mention the flu at all. I simply stated what was the biggest motivating factor for me, personally, to get vaccinated as soon as I had the opportunity. For me it was to minimize the risk of losing taste and smell for a long time which I've known a few people that have had that happen to. I am very low risk for serious COVID complications so that wasn't really as much motivation.
It only matters because the observation is simple on that chart published every day. The national picture the CDC publishes includes everyone with one or more shots and doesn’t really show the steady state of one dose only (at least on the main vaccine dashboard for mobile).
I never go to New Jersey....
...I only live here.
And no way in the sam hell they drop the masks before they have about 90% vaccination and/or the cases flatline and/or kids start getting shots.
most of our spikes now seem to be traced to the teenager group. Which I can’t fathom because none of our teens are spoiled little brats looking for fun in beach towns?
not on Sherrif Phil’s watch...
The good news here is any day now the vaccines should be approved for kids 12-15 and so all teens will be able to be vaccinated. I think this is a big deal and will greatly help slow the current spread. I know when I bring up younger teens being vaccinated others here disagree and feel that teens are irrelevant in the vaccination effort, but we can agree to disagree on that. My kid’s district is doing the vaccines right at the High School during school hours. They are only doing 16+ now but plan to do a second round once the younger kids are approved. From what I’ve heard the acceptance rate is very high. It’s one instance where teenage group think works to benefit society.
Bloomberg’s chart is updated as of yesterday. The 7 day avg is still at 3M and hasn’t been below that since April 1. There has been a decline in the last week or so as the avg has dropped from 3.4 down to 3.0.
Neither. As Seabreeze said, it's a statewide mandate. I get that the kids in the city are suffering in a big way educationally, and even my son (who enjoyed the online days) was getting lax towards the end, but the data for our town shows that the teens are being the most irresponsible right now (not to mention the town threatening to close the skate park for the FOURTH time because the kids are just refusing to mask and distance).what awful town do you live in?
Edit: crap! Massachusetts...I was thinking Pennsylvania ?
who’s your superintendent? John Dennis or Gerry Callahan?
One of the big problems early in the pandemic were the comparisons to the flu and the fact that the numbers on the CDC website for flu deaths are literally estimations using a formula that is seriously out-dated, causing the estimates to be way overblown. (A well-credentialed doctor from Boston did some research about this issue and wrote about it.)
They are also the easiest group to vaccinate. Outside of kids who are home schooled they all have to go to the same location daily so just show up at the high schools or middle schools with the vaccines and you can bang out 20-30M extra doses administered with no effort. The FDA still needs to approve the amendment but that should happen really soon, hopefully before school ends for the year in places that end earlier.
The kids have been back in hybrid since September. My youngest is in a separate autism program, so he's been back in person the full 5 days a week, but there are only 6 kids in his class...and zero spread there. There HAVE been transmissions occurring during school in the high school grades even in hybrid.
Do they not have contact tracing? When our school district has a case, they identify close contacts and have them test and quarantine. They only had to close the schools for one day because a case came up late at night before they had time to complete the contact tracing, and they did remote learning for the week after Thanksgiving because of high community (non-school) spread. Other than that, they've been full time in person since September 1.
Yes, they do. They haven't closed once because of positive cases (even when transmission was known to be in school), but there have been students and employees quarantined off and on all year.
