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Every single business that I have entered in the past month has a sign posted on the front door that wearing masks is mandatory.
Often, like yesterday, I was installing two industrial label printers at a big apple growing and processing facility, some employees inside are wearing masks and some are not.
When I am in close contact with an employee for an extended period of time and they are not wearing a mask, I ask them if I can take of my mask and tell them that I am double vaccinated.
You seem confused by personal politics that this is somehow a badge of honor. It is a common everyday courtesy where I live.
Actually, I was in New Brunswick and that province has not reported a single case of COVID in nine days. All of the locals were quick to brag about that as over 75% of the population has at least one COVID vaccination.
Every business I was in now considers vaccination a strongly encouraged condition of employment.Comment
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Covid-19 'is becoming a pandemic of the unvaccinated,' CDC director says
With Covid-19 cases rising in all 50 states, health officials say it's clear that unvaccinated people are both driving the increase in cases and are most at risk.
"This is becoming a pandemic of the unvaccinated," US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Dr. Rochelle Walensky said during Friday's White House Covid-19 briefing.
"We are seeing outbreaks of cases in parts of the country that have low vaccination coverage because unvaccinated people are at risk," Walensky said. Meantime, "communities that are fully vaccinated are generally faring well."
Cases are rising in all 50 states and Washington, DC, with the average of new cases at least 10% higher than a week ago -- and 38 states are seeing at least a 50% increase, according to a CNN analysis of data from Johns Hopkins University.
The US recorded an average of 26,448 new cases per day over the last week -- up 67% from the week before -- and case rates are highest in states with lower vaccination rates: Among those states that have fully vaccinated less than half its residents, the average Covid-19 case rate was 11 new cases per 100,000 people last week, compared to 4 per 100,000 among states that have fully vaccinated more than half its residents.
Many experts have attributed the rise to slowing vaccination rates with only 48.3% of the US population fully vaccinated, per CDC data.
"Our biggest concern is that we are going to continue to see preventable cases, hospitalizations and, sadly, deaths among the unvaccinated," Walensky said.
The danger is fueled by the growing prevalence of the Delta variant, first identified in India. Pointing to an "extraordinary surge" of the variant worldwide, Dr. Anthony Fauci said the Delta variant now has more than 50% dominance in the US. In some areas, it's greater than 70%, he said, calling this "sobering news."
"The bottom line is we are dealing with a formidable opponent in the Delta variant," Fauci said, adding people who are not vaccinated face "extreme vulnerability."
"The good news is that if you are fully vaccinated, you are protected against severe Covid, hospitalization and death," Walensky said Friday, "and are even protected against the known variants, including the Delta variant."
"If you are not vaccinated," she added, "you remain at risk."
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The White House turned up the pressure on Silicon Valley to get a handle on vaccine misinformation Thursday, specifically singling out 12 people one group dubbed the "disinformation dozen," saying they were responsible for a great deal of misinformation about Covid-19.
"There's about 12 people who are producing 65% of anti-vaccine misinformation on social media platforms," White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said Thursday.
That statistic is from the nonprofit Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) which identified in a report published in March about a dozen people it said were super-spreaders of anti-vaccine misinformation.
The CCDH had at the time called on Facebook and Twitter to shut down all pages run by those people.Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a prominent figure in the anti-vaccine movement, is among the people whom the CCDH said should be kicked off social media.
Kennedy's page on Facebook-owned Instagram was shut down earlier this year for sharing Covid-19 misinformation, Facebook said. However, Kennedy is still allowed on Facebook (FB) itself, and he has more than 300,000 followers on the platform.
Explaining why Kennedy was kicked off one of its platforms but not the other, a Facebook spokesperson told CNN Thursday, "We don't automatically disable accounts across our apps, because the accounts may post about different things on our different services."
At the time the CCDH's report was released in March, Kennedy told NPR that he had become more cautious on Facebook, which according to NPR he also accused of censorship. "I have to post, like, unicorns and kitty cat pictures on there," he said.
The CCDH said Friday that 35 social media accounts tied to the people it identified have now been shut down, losing them 5.8 million followers, but 62 accounts with a total of 8.4 million followers are still active.
CNN reported Thursday that meetings between the Biden administration and Facebook have grown "tense," according to a person familiar with the conversations.
The person pointed specifically to Kennedy's still-active Facebook account as an example of what some White House officials view as Facebook's inaction regarding Covid-19 misinformation.
A Facebook spokesperson told CNN Friday the company had shut down some pages and groups belonging to the dozen or so people identified by the CCDH but would not say what pages.Comment
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And the Facebook and Twitter Gestapo said, "Ja Fuhrer Biden. Wir werden tun, was du befiehlst".
Censorship is a tactic of people who are Scared.
Censorship is a tactic of Communists.
Censorship is a tactic of stifling dissent.
Censorship is a direct infringement on our 1st Amendment rights.
WE WILL NOT BE CENSORED!OmertÃComment
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But the majority misinformation is actually coming from The White House. The Biden White House makes their most outrageous move yet against the civil liberties of the American people. Ep. 1564 A Dangerous New Attack On Your Liberties | Dan Bongino
LA Officials reinstate a mask mandate because they’re losers. Los Angeles County restoring indoor mask mandate – 850 WFTLComment
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Covid-19 'is becoming a pandemic of the unvaccinated
Billy write this down
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Way to go Governor Dufus
Nearly 20 percent of the nation's new coronavirus infections are now happening in Florida alone, according to a White House official.
Cases are rising across the nation as a whole as the more transmissible delta variant spreads but are concentrated in areas with low vaccination rates.
"Just four states accounted for more than 40 percent of all cases in the past week, with 1 in 5 of all cases occurring in Florida alone," White House COVID-19 coordinator Jeff Zients told reporters during a briefing Friday.
"We will likely ... continue to experience an increase in COVID cases in the weeks ahead, with these cases concentrated in communities with lower vaccination rates," Zients said
Florida is seeing some of the highest coronavirus hospitalizations, new infections and deaths per capita in the country. The numbers bottomed out as vaccinations became available but recently have been climbing.
Currently, the state is reporting an average of 29 new infections for every 100,000 people per day - more than four times the national average.
The positivity rate is hovering around 10 percent, and according to federal data, the seven-day moving average is more than 5,600 cases a day.Comment
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Vaccination rates vary around the country and in most states, Black and Hispanic people have received smaller shares of vaccinations compared with their shares of Covid-19 cases, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation report last week.
The concerns of Black and Indigenous people, along with other people of color (BIPOC) have over vaccines, and how they must be taken seriously.
BIPOC do not fare well in predominately White health care institutions. Racial health inequities are also par for the course.
Given the reality of Covid-19 and the growing threat of the Delta variant, BIPOC should perhaps weigh the health benefits of vaccines -- and see it as a way to stay out of the very hospitals and doctors' offices that so often fail them. Getting vaccinated against preventable diseases is one way to ensure that all people, especially BIPOC, avoid health care encounters in which implicit and explicit bias lead to worse health outcomes.
It doesn't help that many Republicans have been stoking vaccine skepticism and outright hostility. The Delta variant is already spreading rapidly across the country.
Many who choose to forgo the shot may claim they are making a personal decision.
But the continued spread of Covid-19 affects us all.
The truth is, the virus doesn't care about so-called individual liberties. It simply infects whatever host it can find, Republican or Democrat, young or old, disabled, immuno-compromised, and anti-vaxxers alike.
If anything, remaining unvaccinated by choice -- and not because of lack of access or contraindicated health conditions -- sounds more like shirking an individual responsibility than exercising an individual right.Comment
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