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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We’re now far enough out from the lifting of the mask mandate to see the effects of lifting it. Surprise, cases went up. The vaccines aren’t as effective in preventing transmission as we first thought, though they appear to be pretty good at preventing serious illness. Our healthcare workers are going to be in for another rough thanksgiving and christmas as hospitalizations go up again.

I have no desire to mask forever, but the virus is still fairly new. We don’t have a good handle on the mean time between significant mutations, we don’t know for sure how long immunity (natural or vaccine) lasts, and we have neither enough genetic sequencing nor enough breakthrough data to be certain that it’s ok to get rid of low-cost measures like masking. I don’t understand why the council was in such a hurry to get rid of the mandate and thought it needed to play games with numbers to do so. [/quote]

There are so many ridiculous parts to this post. We’re not seeing an increase in cases from unmasked people. Why? We’ll, first we haven’t seen a significant increase in cases. We’re about two weeks out from lifting the mask mandate. Here’s a graph of the last 30 days.

[img]https://i.imgur.com/zTkRFTm.jpg[/img]

Do you see a significant trend there? Cases have gone up an insignificant amount. And the small amount they did go up happened before there even could have been an impact from lifting the mandate.

Second, the mandate went away, but mask usage was largely unchanged. Schools still required it. Many workplaces still did. And almost everyone else voluntarily continued to wear masks indoors.

And third, cases really don’t matter. Everyone agrees Covid will become endemic. Cases will continue, but the severity of cases will be low as people have acquired some level of protective immunity through vaccination and/or prior infection. We saw that with the Delta wave- cases went up significantly, but hospitalizations and deaths were significantly moderated by our high vaccination rate. Now even more people are vaccinate. And more people have protection from recovering from prior infections. Regardless of what happens with cases, we’re not going to see the dangerous spikes like 2020 again.[/quote]

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