Mitigation measures

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Originally Posted by musingaway, post: 2234113, member: 52705

It's great that your other friends contracted it and had no issues, but COVID isn't just a problem for each individual to measure for themselves. Without mitigations, it has an exponential rate of transmission. A low-symptom, healthy individual contracting COVID isn't a problem for themselves, but they become a vector for community transmission and that's how things spiral out of control. It isn't people being gripped with fear, it's a rational public health strategy to manage this disease.

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Thankfully mitigation measures - lockdowns, masks, barriers, distancing, etc - were highly effective.

 

[mr merlin]

The masks came off in most blue states a month ago, places like NY and CA only reopened a week or 2 ago, as reopenings approached many sports teams and other venues announced vaccinated sections, unvaccinated sections, they talked of requiring negative tests before allowing the unvaccinated to enter, even cruise ships were going to require vaccinations.

In just 2 or 3 weeks all those plans have been scrapped, NY teams today announced no restrictions at all, no separate sections, no nothing. cruise ships likewise gave up on that crap.

All the BS is fading, all the nonsense is being tossed in the trash can, back to the old normal is now the norm. Even Biden is planning a national independance from covid celebration on July 4th. A month ago he was still blathering that the unvaccinated were going to have to wear masks forever.