Back on mask mandates. It's almost like a consistent response to covid could've prevented all this.
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Honestly I'm surprised they're enacting another mask mandate.
I'm pretty sure everyone in Iowa could get COVID and we'd continue pretending it stopped existing.
"how about we give people a tiered tax credit for not getting COVID?"
How about a 10% coupon off your hospital bill for small businesses that work in underserved communities?
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holy shit im so glad it was completely impossible to just pay everyone like $5000 or something and tell them to stay home for a month or two.
Do USians even have the discipline and social cohesion for this to work? When people call masks communism and start burning the things, it makes you wonder.
We've moved on fully to the "personal responsibility" train with the vaccine.
MA covid cases have tripled in the last three weeks.
Still low, like 150 new cases or whatever, but that's when you decide it's time to restrict, Not when it gets out of hand like the rest of the country.
But ofc the US is too tired of "lockdown," a thing we never experienced.
Last I seen before this jump we were looking at a 3% occurance of the delta variant with new covid infections. In that area in general. I woudl expect to see a higher preportion in LA proper they got places where people got money enough to be traveling still.
I haven't seen any data on this coinsiding with the projected wave from the reopening the cdc predicted.
I am however, not optimistic.
It's in the header at cdc.gov. Trivia - I had to do a screengrab because it's not an image link. It's shapes and text made via fancy CSS: Scalable Vector Graphics.
