It should be close to that timeframe on staffing. The first wave of College Program kids comes back June 14 with future waves coming later in June and July. Assuming a little time is needed for orientation and/or training they should in theory have the staff to increase park hours a bit by July 1 at MK and DHS and add CMs for crowd control if they wanted fireworks at either or both of those parks. EPCOT is already open late enough so would just be a matter of having the extra staff for crowd control around show time.
I agree for public places in general but work is completely different. I see no viable way to have a passport system where I have to show proof of vaccination to shop at Target. However, it’s very easy for an employer to ask an at-will employee to show proof of vaccination to be exempt from wearing a mask. That’s much easier to regulate and enforce. Since people spend the bulk of the time where they are exposed to people outside of their immediate families at work that’s where you get the most bang for your buck anyway. It’s a much greater incentive for someone to want to get vaccinated so they don’t have to wear a mask for 8+ hours a day at work then it is to get out of wearing a mask while shopping at the supermarket or Target.
We did it last week too. I'm still more than happy to wear it around anyone that feels more comfortable with it, and I know we have a few people that are still finishing up the two week moratorium after dose # 2. But it's just nice to walk the hallways and move about the building without it, but knowing I have it in my pocket should I need it.
Months ago the stat that was thrown out by Fauci was a sustained drop to under 3 cases per 100,000 people nationally before we drop masks and distancing for everyone. Things are looking great right now (about 7.5 cases per 100,000) but we still aren’t there yet. The current situation is that until cases get to a low enough level and/or until we reach a high enough vaccination level we continue to require unvaccinated people to wear masks and distance. There’s no reason a fully vaccinated person should have to continue to wear a mask since they are not a threat to spread Covid. That’s why there‘s talk of proof of vaccination and why mask mandates haven’t ended. If we reach the target of 70% of adults vaccinated by July 4th and there isn’t some variant driven spike in cases somewhere I think we will hit a level below 5 cases per 100,000 and possibly even under 3. I think then Biden and the CDC will pull the trigger on CDC dropping all Covid restriction recommendations.
I don't think cases being low should be enough. Vaccination rates should be included too.
I'm scared about variant spike soon....is really gonna happen soon...
Heck even variants can't do nothing as the cases being not low enough thanks to variants.
Vaccinations drive case numbers down. That’s the whole game. We don’t know what level of vaccination is needed to drive cases low enough so it’s an either or. If we reach 70% vaccinated and cases are say below 5 per 100,000 and still trending down I think that gets it done. If cases drop below 3 per 100,000 in a few weeks time and stay there for a week or 2 I think they also pull the trigger on removing restrictions even if we haven’t gotten to 70% vaccinated yet.
No worries. In most places the vaccination rate is high enough to prevent a spike.I'm scared about variant spike soon....is really gonna happen soon...
NJ, NY, PA, CT, and CA?
That plan has good chance to fail. You need a high percentage vaccinated keep Covid numbers down. Again it feels like good enough is enough.
Among others. We are up to 20 states now where more than half the population has received at least 1 dose. It’s hard for a full blown spike to emerge and be sustained with half the population out of the pool of potential victims and that doesn’t even include the people unvaccinated but naturally immune.
Why wouldn’t good enough be enough? You keep saying that like it’s a bad thing. No offense, but I will take the estimates and recommendations of actual experts like Fauci who are giving their educated opinions or look at real life examples in other countries. How is Israel doing with 60% of their population vaccinated with 1 shot?
Perhaps because "good enough" has a tendency to come back and bite you in the butt later.
Bingo! Data driven based on what’s actually happening. We know vaccines help drive that number down, but vaccination rate is only one metric and I don’t think we should obsess over it if it looks like things are trending the right way and continue doing so.
