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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I can't believe the county is choosing to screw over immunocompromised people, adults who haven't been able to get vaccinated (yes, they exist, including significant numbers of poor/immigrant adults who can't afford to take time off work for side effects or are worried about being deported), and kids, just to cater to wimpy whiners who can't tolerate the tiny inconvenience of wearing a mask inside... [/quote]

Do you understand what a 3.0 case rate means?  It means that there are approximately 33 COVID positive people circulating among 1.1 million in MoCo each week.  Approximately 70% of the people they encounter each day are vaccinated, so basically no transmission. And then there are the people who already had COVID in the wild.

I’m sorry, you just can’t convince anyone that this is a high risk move.  The people who you are worried about can mask and freeload off MoCo’s herd immunity.[/quote]

Sure, that's the rate now.  [b]Next month maybe there's a superspreader event or a variant and it's twice or 3 times or 5 times that rate.[/b]   Also, masks are imperfect and babies and toddlers can't wear them.

(Also, even right now, it's 33 new cases diagnosed per day, so probably 300 diagnosed contagious people at any point in time, not counting anyone who's sick but not tested.  So if you're in a room of 100 people, there's about a 3% chance that someone is contagious with covid.)[/quote]

Next month maybe there's a gamma ray burst or a Yellowstone caldera explosion. Right now, however, the vaccines are highly effective.[/quote]

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