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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am so happy with the mandate.  I finally went out to a restaurant.  Haven't been out in months.  I feel safer now as do my friends.  For every unvac'd person who went to VA, many of us finally left the house and went to restaurants in DC.  [/quote]

You are just silly then.  D.C. has an 85% vaccination rate but one of the highest COVID infection rates.  The vaccinated can and do easily spread COVID.  [/quote]

Nowhere near the highest covid infection rates on a per/100k basis.  Many Trump voting red states beat DC out by far.  [/quote]

Not as of late December.

https://www.npr.org/2021/12/28/1068417547/the-nations-capital-is-the-worst-place-for-covid-19-infections-right-now  [/quote]

That was weeks ago.  Currently DC is at 53/100k and being a city, has a lot more likelihood of transmissibility due to high urban density and frequency of contacts.

Compare that to deep red states with much lower population density like Alaska, currently at 325/100k, Utah, 287/100k, Montana 223/100k.  And even for its number of cases, DC had a far lower hospitalization and death rate than any of those states - because many more of us are vaccinated.[/quote]

Exactly the point.  More are vaccinated, but omicron went through D.C. at a rate as high as anywhere else until it petered out.  Being vaccinated did not stop people spreading it nor people catching it.  It did lessen the hospitalization and death rates compared to elsewhere, but that is why PP is silly and the point regarding the vaccine passport being useless still stands.  With omicron, the vaccinated and masked can and do spread COVID, so feeling more comfortable going out to eat with a vaccine passport is useless and based on exactly what she said, feelings, not facts.  [/quote]

The point is, the vaccines lessened the impact of COVID A LOT.  And ideally, with a highly-vaccinated population, we could lessen it to the point where it's no more of an issue than the common cold.  But that WILL NOT happen with the right wing's anti-vax, anti-mask, lets-open-all-the-bars-and-go-hog-wild nonsense which have instead only resulted in prolonging and worsening the impacts of the pandemic.[/quote]

As stated above...DC has a 85% vax rate. How much higher a vax rate do you want before you believe it isn't being spread by the non-vax'd? Cause the math would say it hasn't been to this point? [/quote]

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