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Originally Posted by Unique_Carpenter
kc_4_Fun simply brings his persona to the board.
But to Emmie's question;
I think we need to give the covid situation at least a few more months, perhaps end of summer. For civie stuff my summer is fairly weak with activity but once labor day hits, the prebooked civie stuff is as busy as pre-covid.
I would think, and hope, that hobby stuff follows a similar pattern.
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GOOD POINT CARP!
There was an item in the Wall Street Journal on Friday that discussed that we are on track for having a much higher number of COVID cases, and deaths, during 2022 than in 21.
There was also a state by state chart that compared the number of cases per 100,000 to the number of people who have received the vaccinations.
Strange results: In those states that had a low number of cases/100,000 the number of cases remained about the same before during and after the vaccination periods: i.e. the infection rate did not change.
In those states, like New York and NJ, with a high number of cases per 100,000 the number of people being infected as the received the vaccination dropped, in some states like a falling rock.
The result seems to be that the the vaccinations have lowered the infection rates for COVID in high population areas. At the same time, for low population states the infection rates for COVID has not gone down as expected. It is about the same numbe/100,000 out in the areas that have lower populations.
Conclusion, this thing will not be eliminate in the short term. Predictions are that it will come back in a big way this summer.
We hope not.
Just thank Donald Trump for putting out Operation Warp Speed for fronting the money to get the ball rolling on the development of the vaccination. The news now is that Pfizer is has kicked him in the butt for his efforts by supporting Biden and the whole Democrat ticket. They were repaid by Biden with the statement about pulling the patent protection and intellectual rights.
Getting some upfront money and orders for anything they developed was the right thing for Trump to do while he cleared the way by eliminating red tape is something only Trump would have thought to do: we thank him.
But putting a business into full attack mode on a problem, with the best people capable of solving the problem, should not be rewarded by Biden with a slap in the face.
Oh well, what the hell, it is only politics.
Anyway, I am not going to New York for a vacation.