Question on Covid numbers.

[Woodswalker]

I'm hearing about vaccine success and things getting better but we had 82k new cases and 1650 deaths yesterday? We still lead the world in infection rate and these are not just numbers from a one day spike. This has been the norm for weeks.

[Blues Heron]

1. Down from 166K per day average around the beginning of Sept

Scroll down for the daily new cases graph and you will see the cases have been dropping since the early September peak.


https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

[Demsrule86]

2. Really, the unvaccinated are dying everyday.

If you google anything, You know that. Things are better. And those I know who had Covid after vaccination recovered after mild cases.

[Hortensis]

3. And large-scale vaccination mandates are revving up but

many deadlines still coming.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

6. You made me think, in Texas, Abbott signed an executive order

Poo-pooing vms. Need to see how that plays out

[Hortensis]

8. Hi. I read the legislature failed to back it up with a bill he could sign.

That's something for sure. Don't try, try again.

You made me wonder what all's happening like this in the rest of the states. This is from stinky Newsweek, but only 2 days old.

Only two states, Montana and Texas, have a private employer vaccine mandate ban in place as of October 8.

Eight states, Montana, Utah, Texas, Michigan, Indiana, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Georgia, have a state worker vaccine mandate ban in place. The same eight also ban school mandates, NASHP states.

And a total of 21 states ban 'vaccine passports' to some extent according to NASHP, though the extent to which this is enforced will vary. These states are Idaho, Utah, Arizona, Arkansas, Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Iowa, Missouri, Alaska, Mississippi, Indiana, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, and South Carolina.

I'm proud of GA for at least outdoing FL in lethal political depravity. Our state of official residence, after all.

[Doodley]

9. Within two weeks Texas will be number in the nation for most deaths.

[Dorian Gray]

4. It's a lot

but it's almost half where we were a month and a half ago, and the downward trend is heartening, especially since we know children 5-12 will be able to start getting vaccinated most likely within 2-3 weeks. Hallelujah.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

5. I hear you. I wish that there would be an end, a defined end

an "ALL CLEAR!". It's all boiling down to each community and how much risk they are willing to take. If you come to Texas you would never in a million years know that there were people getting sick and dying. Life in this world is completely back to normal.

It's a sad realization that no one was able to stop this horrible horrible virus. I read that no one was close to herd community

[Shermann]

7. The UK could surpass us in daily cases shortly

I don't believe is has much to do with behavior. It probably has more to do with the Delta Plus variant and how infections oscillate on the macro level.

[Doodley]

10. The numbers are going down, but we've seen this before. With new variants, with so many

not vaccinating, with existing vaccines needing a boost, with so many behaving like normal, we could easily see another surge next year.

[Woodswalker]

11. Guess I'm getting impatient

Thought we would have this cornered by now. Well I got my booster last week. Guess I'll have to mask up and carry on.