DisneyFan32
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carolina_yankee
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No. They are predominantly communities of color with a historic mistrust of institutions. Some also don’t want their names entered into systems. There are also access challenges. My own community is an example. Over 50% non-white. They won’t go to the hospital three miles down the road to get vaccinated. The hospital keeps setting up clinics in the center of town to get to them, but it’s slower.
NJ is one of the top states in the country for percentage vaccinated, and near the top for densely populated state. Put up the stats for preeminently white counties and you’ll see a different number.
danlb_2000
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Yes, but in the press conference he explained that they are making progress in these locations.
GoofGoof
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You don’t need to wear a mask at the pool either. Not the rest of the grounds, but at least while swimming or sitting on the pool deck.
DisneyFan32
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I don't want to wear my mask ever again can I not gonna wear mask during each winter?:
carolina_yankee
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Remember when everything could be blamed on the dining plan? Now it’s vaccines. Always need a scapegoat!
GoofGoof
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Please celebrate with me! 0 yes 0 deaths declared in England today! That’s the first time that’s happened in 14 months!
For those playing along at home....UK = 53% of the population with at least 1 shot. The vaccines work great
Tom P.
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Is this coming from that "the vaccines cause infertility" garbage? Because I work with one woman who just gave birth and two others who are pregnant, all of whom are fully vaccinated. So that would come as quite surprising news to them...
carolina_yankee
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Wait, they got the vaccine and then had babies? Whoo boy, that’s a major side effect! Sorry. Couldn’t resist.
Flugell
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That’s before the vaccine is available to all age groups, still over 40 only in England, till review on 13 th May. Just for information.
For those playing along at home....UK = 53% of the population with at least 1 shot. The vaccines work great
Tom P.
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The strange part is, they all look like Anthony Fauci and already talk with a Brooklyn accent.
Incomudro
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Yes, I forgot about that - that's certainly a plus.
GoofGoof
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GoofGoof
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I think your original point still stands, but it’s better than nothing to at least take the thing off at the pool.
BrianLo
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Georgia's 1st dose vaccination rate by age:
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As you can see, it's extremely high for those 65-and-over, but dreadful for those 34-and-younger.
My twentysomething year old children (who have all received their second doses) tell me that many of their (liberal college educated) friends view COVID as an "old person's disease."
Huge, huge asterisks that this data is extremely skewed by the aged based roll out of vaccines.
That's not to understate that I don't believe it. But we would not see such a dramatic tail if everyone was eligible in December. I do generally think younger generations are more likely to have 'immortality complexes' and increased vaccine hesitancy. Similar to voting demographics. Maturity is a thing (for most people at least).
Incomudro
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Yes, for me - walking around the grounds maskless is important.
Especially given that most of those areas are not crowded anyway.
There's ample room to give people space, and in most cases you're not really near anyone else much at all.
hopemax
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See, like I predicted earlier today. One set of recommendations for CFC (cold, flu and covid) season and one the rest of the year.
Someday, you will be old like the rest of us and getting sick will be a PITA and you will want people to stay away from you or at least wear a mask if they are coughing and sneezing everywhere. I also expect we'll see more mask wearing during high pollen and wildfires, because after last year we learned that wearing a mask is less annoying than triggering your allergies.
But you won't have to, if you don't want to.
BrianLo
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This is the most patently ridiculous thing I
Look at this magical document dated April 2018. Which has more or less existed in one form or another for decades.
AND was actively enforced, not suggested, enforced. I've laughed about the stupid volume of dollars we waste for years because a certain specialty (I will not identify) are addicted to bedside rounds and traipse upwards of 8-10 learners and allied health through full PPE amongst room after room of respiratory illnesses.
Just because the entire world has decided they are now public health experts and are now "super informed" does not mean the protocols for COVID weren't already well established and practiced. I don't care what US experts did or did not say or put their foot in their mouths about. I'm not an American. The science and logic behind masking and infection prevention and control is not new. It is also not politically motivated.
Wendy Pleakley
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This is already the norm in other parts of the world, such as Japan. People choose to wear masks if they've got a cold/flu and have to go out or in crowded environments like subways where germs spread easily. Key word is choose, I wouldn't expect masks to be mandatory in the future.
Now that we're used to wearing masks and have learned it's not some great hardship (well, some of us), why not continue to use them in certain circumstances? During a crowded bus ride back to the hotel for example. I've had colds at WDW on several occasions. From the plane? From so many people in the same spaces touching things like railings? Hard to say, but we can learn some things from the past year about how to prevent getting sick so often.
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