Wait for it. Covid vaccinations are rising, which, presumably means that cases of Covid will fall...

[Baitball Blogger]

so when the numbers begin to fall in Florida, wait for Ron De Santis to suck the oxygen out of the air and say, "See, I told you so. This is like the flu. Things just get better on their own."

[Aristus]

1. Post his response with the Florida body-count underneath it...

n/t

[bluesbassman]

2. If you can get an accurate one. n/t

[Baitball Blogger]

3. Yep. That one is going to be hard to outrun.

[JohnSJ]

4. He can say whatever he wants, but those in his state who have been affected by the pandemic

adversely because of the reckless way he has dealt with it, won't fall for it

[Blues Heron]

5. New cases have been falling in Florida for a month

They were averaging 20,000 new cases a day, now they're down to 6000/day. Check the chart - https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/florida/

[Fiendish Thingy]

6. Actually, nationwide the daily vaccination rate is dropping. Nt

[Baitball Blogger]

7. Today's news suggests otherwise.

By groups, they are rising for Latin Americans, for example.

[Fiendish Thingy]

8. That's the overall percentage of people vaccinated, which is indeed rising

But the number of people getting vaccinated each day has dropped significantly.

[Baitball Blogger]

9. And the point is, that we're reaching numbers high enough for "herd immunity"

to start kicking in.

[Fiendish Thingy]

10. With just 71% fully vaccinated, the US is nowhere near herd immunity

That doesn’t kick in until around 85%- Fauci has said with Delta, it may take 90%.

[Baitball Blogger]

11. But, we're getting there, moving forward.

And the goal right now is to give the hospitals a break from unvacced Covid patients, because that's the main source of the casualties that we have today.

This is the realistic objective: As the vaccination rates continue to rise, it will free up the hospitals from diverting all of its resources to anti-vaxxers. Overtime, the anti-vaxxers will either be killed off by their own stupidity, or wake up and get vaccinated.

"Herd immunity" will probably be more of a situation where vaccinated people will not end up in the hospital, and not end up dead. That would be a success. That's what someone like De Santis will try to hijack.

In conclusion, the vaccination rates are going to have a final effect. This isn't going away on its own like a flu.