Conavirus......

[Tradd]

A friend of mine works as a refrigerated truck/trailer mechanic (he works on the reefer units). He’s in a fairly large Midwestern city. He said all the restaurant supply houses have closed down. Only the grocery suppliers are left. He said the restaurants are going to hurt when they come back as they’re going to have to shop at the grocery store/Sam’s, etc. A few of the supply houses hung on until the fall, but then they closed. He said the repair business he works for has lost a ton of business. He’s very mechanically talented and has his own repair business for other things on the side.

[razz]

Tradd, that is very concerning to read. Restaurants will be competing with local family shoppers for food supplies.

[Tradd]

Tradd, that is very concerning to read. Restaurants will be competing with local family shoppers for food supplies.

Actually it was the prices the restaurants are going to be charging that he mentioned.

I would expect they would be shopping at the big warehouse stores for cheaper prices.

[jp1]

One of the main infectious disease docs at San Francisco General Hospital tweeted yesterday that for the first time since March 5, 2020 the hospital has zero covid patients.

[Yppej]

The CDC is now saying unvaccinated children don't need to wear masks at social gatherings where adults are vaccinated because they are at such low risk from the disease. I wonder if this will sink in with those who continue to look for rare outliers of children sick with covid, and who deny that there is a correlation between age and getting, falling ill from, transmitting, and dying from covid. Kids should be freed of mask mandates at school too. Those who don't like that can continue homeschooling their children.

[happystuff]

The CDC is now saying unvaccinated children don't need to wear masks at social gatherings where adults are vaccinated because they are at such low risk from the disease. I wonder if this will sink in with those who continue to look for rare outliers of children sick with covid, and who deny that there is a correlation between age and getting, falling ill from, transmitting, and dying from covid. Kids should be freed of mask mandates at school too. Those who don't like that can continue homeschooling their children.

[Tradd]

IL is down to something like a 2% positivity rate.

[Tradd]

Chicago ended mandatory quarantine for anyone coming to the city from outside the state.

IL only had something like 8 deaths today.

[jp1]

Marin county (my county, just north of San Francisco over the Golden Gate Bridge) moved into California’s yellow tier today (the best tier in our four tier system) joining San Francisco county, Santa Clara county, San Mateo county and Santa Cruz county in the Bay Area. Average of 5 daily positives for the past seven days in a population of 250,000. Our county is also second highest in the state with 75% fully and 87% partially vaccinated.

I expect that when the state lifts all restrictions in two weeks everything will be fully open in these counties.

[Yppej]

What was the response to a more catchy variant arising in India? Immediately stop flights from there a la post 9/11? No. It was delay and then finally stop noncitizens from flying in, but still allow citizens to travel back and forth from India. Now the Indian variant has spread throughout the country and is the dominant one in some states. The solution the government has come up with? Rename it the delta variant so people from India don't feel bad.