As Niagara moves to the "Red" Zone today, there's cause for a little bit of relief and even joy. That's called the Control Stage and means stores and restaurants are open with limits on capacity. While fitness facilities are able to open, the YMCA has decided to remain closed. I expect they will wait for the next stage, which is Orange - Restrict. There's still two more to go with Green being Prevent and not much said over than still wearing a mask and physically distancing.
It makes one wonder what will happen as vaccination gets underway in the general population. Will we have non-mask wearers among the vaccinated? And those who aren't vaccinated might be worried that they are more vulnerable than before vaccination started?
The New York Times has addressed this question - it says it is unclear how well the vaccines will curb the spread of the virus. People might get infected without developing symptoms, and then silently transmit the virus. The trials only tracked how many vaccinated people became sick.
Isn't this all so complicated? It seems that "when things get back to normal" is more a fantasy than ever. The Atlantic had an article a week ago that claimed we could get back to normal could come back with concerts possible in the winter 2022, and predicted that spring/summer 2022 could be 'normal' or what we come to think of as normal where the virus will still exist, but less likely to make people severely ill, so be more like the flu.
On to our jokes of the day:
The bubonic plague, the flu, and HIV walk into a bar. The bartender asks, "What is this? Some kind of sick joke?".
Smallpox, the Spanish Flu, and the Black Death have already done the whole global pandemic thing. What Covid is doing is just plaguerism.
This is a montage of Dogwood from the container displays and raindrops on a red truck. It seems like a good match for Pandemic Ponderings.
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