I disagree. B.C. just mandated residents are banned from visiting each others’ private homes for two weeks. This is too try to slow the rising cases in the province.
Thank you.Yeah, we tried wishing it away....I wish That would have worked
The US response was unbalanced. The mask thing being a good example. The current (soon to be past) administration and specifically POTUS came our strong against masks. That tone is very counterproductive to something you list as one of the many things the US did (or tried to do) to fight Covid. The public health experts asked people to avoid large gatherings especially without masks and distancing but the current administration held rallies in violation of all those things. How do we expect people to follow the rules in their personal lives when that example is set from the top? So I can’t have friends and family at a wedding but it’s ok to gather thousands for a rally. Indoor dining is closed some places but bars with not restrictions are open in others, theme parks, schools, etc... All these things should have had a more National push to have some standardized recommendations. Instead the administration fought science and argued with their own task force.
I hope one of the vaccines pans out. If it does it will take a lot to organize the distribution and it may be right in the middle of the transition between administrations. They should have a joint task force (new and old administrations) to wrk through transition of that responsibility. This is way above some petty political nonsense. I also hope there’s a strong push for people to take the vaccine. It could be a train wreck if Trump decides to rail against the vaccine because he wants to see Biden fail and convinces many people to avoid it. I really hope that doesn’t happen, but it’s a legit fear.
I think just having the rule on the books and making It well known is half the battle. The CDC here released some guidelines for holiday gatherings but there needs to be a better PR push to let people know what they should do. Not everyone will follow but I still think most people want to follow recommendations and do what’s right but I know a few people who had no clue there was even a published list of recommendations. Maybe that’s partially “playing dumb” as in out of sight, out of mind, but we all need to do a little better and it would help if there was a consistent message as to what that looks like.
How is the government enforcing the ban?
So you are saying absent time wearing a mask protects you? I'm pretty sure if virus particles are spewed into the air they don't hang in one spot. Either the backwash of the person moving forward or the HVAC system moving the air they are dispersed. I get your thought but don't think it works that way.
It’s definitely a layered effect. Distancing is good and so are masks and so is hand washing. Doing all of them together adds layers of protection. On the idea of distancing, the 6 foot rule was always a guideline and not an absolute. Depending on the situation you may need to stay further away to be safer (indoor with poor ventilation) and in some cases with very brief contact it may be OK to be closer (outside passing by in a theme park). The CDC also recently updated their definition of close exposure from being within 6 feet of a positive person for 15+ minutes at one time to being within 6 feet of an infected person for periods of time that add up to 15 minutes. Minor change but it was done to say if you have multiple close contacts with a positive person even if none were over 15 mins long you could still be at risk due to the volume of overall exposure. That’s the criteria used to determine who should be tested and/or quarantine. It’s possible to get really unlucky and have an exposure for far less than 15 mins that could lead to infection.
Their people are enforcing it? As in calling the police if their neighbors are getting together with others?
You are partially right. They are hoping to use education over fining people. But they have resorted to fining people already. Halloween weekend they fined 3 home owners for having parties. Each were fined $2300. 2 of the parties only had 20 to 25 people at them. Fining people has worked as it has made most people listen.
Let’s all remember, we are playing Russian roulette with a gun that will not fire 99.8 percent of the time even when the live chamber is lines up with the barrel....
