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I was surprised to find out today that Costco now requires a membership to eat at the food court. I'm not sure it's Costco wide. My local Costco's food court is different in that it's semi automated. Food ordering and payment is done at kiosks.
We're from Phoenix and the Costco food court is indoors and requires a membership, always has. I was surprised when we went to the Burbank location and it was outdoors and EVERYONE and their brother was there with their kids and grandparents and neighbors. So I'm glad they're requiring a membership now in CA.
Technically in CA we're still waiting on the revised CAL-OSHA rules, which apply to most workplaces. They wanted to recommend continued masking unless your employer has proof everyone in a given space is vaccinated, but that got overruled last night. They haven't released a full updated guidance yet, but my office at least has told us to expect to continue masking through June at least.
“Delta coronavirus variant doubles risk of hospitalization: Scottish study“: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login
This is what makes me nervous about the office reopening again so soon.
does it double it for non-vax'ed or vax'ed?
“Delta coronavirus variant doubles risk of hospitalization: Scottish study“: You are not allowed to view links. Register or LoginBasically, don’t play with fire. Just get vaccinated if you haven’t. Unless there is a valid reason like health, the vaccines are still effective against the Delta variant. Like I said before, we (humans) have the blueprint to fighting the virus. The ride to victory will be bumpy at times.
Also, it's easy to loose track since we've had so many variants. But when they say that the Delta(Indian) variant is 60% more contagious, it's 60% more contagious than the Alpha(UK) variant. Remember how people used to worry about that? Even in the UK now that seems like a gentler kinder covid. The Delta variant has taken over there. The Alpha variant is dominate in the US. The Alpha is about 50% more contagious than the "original" variant. Which in the US means the first European variant that was dominant here before the Alpha variant. That first European variant was more contagious than the virus that from Wuhan which was never a factor in the US. So we are 4 variants in with each one being about 50% more contagious than the last. Like compound interest, it adds up.
Fauci said the transmissibility of the Delta variant should prompt any eligible American who has not done so yet to get vaccinated as quickly as possible, as preliminary data show the Pfizer vaccines is 88% effective against the Delta strain.
Interesting from this article (which as of last week has the Delta variant making up 6% of USA COVID cases) You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login: W/Pfizer & Moderna vaccines being 94-95% effective for Alpha variant, that minor reduction in efficacy helps me sleep at night. What's disconcerting as chocolateshake mentions is that each variant becomes more contagious, severe, and (likely) deadly than the last: meaning, the longer so many idiots people eligible for the vaccine that ignore science and skip it make the situation that much more dangerous for everyone. I pound my head on a concrete wall at the sheer stupidity of people ignoring science and trusting nonsense they see on the internet instead of well-proven scientific (and anecdotal) data for...reasons (I'm actually not clear on why people are being stupid about not taking the vaccine to be honest - I've heard the lame excuses, unrelated to younger kids & folks w/legit medical reasons that can't get the vaccine, and absolutely zero of them make sense)
Interesting from this article (which as of last week has the Delta variant making up 6% of USA COVID cases) You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login:QuoteFauci said the transmissibility of the Delta variant should prompt any eligible American who has not done so yet to get vaccinated as quickly as possible, as preliminary data show the Pfizer vaccines is 88% effective against the Delta strain.
What's disconcerting as chocolateshake mentions is that each variant becomes more contagious, severe, and (likely) deadly than the last: meaning, the longer so many idiots people eligible for the vaccine that ignore science and skip it make the situation that much more dangerous for everyone.
The heart inflammation/mRNA investigation won’t help the cause in getting more people vaccinated. (226 cases are being investigated by the CDC if anyone wanted to know the case numbers.) Anyway, just look at J&J after that brief pause it had earlier this year, due to the investigation of blood clotting.
Breakthroughs are considered so rare as to not matter.
Also because they are generally relatively "harmless," in the sense of no serious symptoms, hospitalizations, deaths, etc. I suspect many of the COVID+ test results from breakthroughs occur because people had to get tested for other reasons (for example, CalOSHA currently requires office workers to test regularly, even when vaccinated). There are serious ailments in the breakthrough cases, but from what I've read they seem to be incredibly rare (and anecdotally the ones I've explicitly read about, like Phil Nevin from the NY Yankees as one example, have come from the less-effective J&J vaccine)