1. As noted earlier, it'll be impossible to know who isn't wearing a mask because they're vaxxed & who isn't because they're an asshole.
2. That means it'll be impossible for most businesses to enforce a "no mask if vaxxed" policy since there's no official "passport."
3. I'd rather be thought of as "being overly cautious" by half the population than be thought of as "being an asshole" by the other half.
4. My 15-yr old hasn't been vaxxed yet. It'd be a dick move to be at a store w/him and not wear one while he still has to.
The last reason will hopefully be resolved w/in the next 6 weeks. As for the rest, assuming no significant variant outbreak/etc., I'll probably stop wearing one indoors when *my area* reaches, say, 70% of the *entire* population fully vaxxed...which might not be until this fall.
Counties w/highest cumul. #COVID19 *cases* per capita: 1. Chattahoochee County, GA 2. Crowley County, CO 3. Bent County, CO 4. Dewey County, SD 5. Lincoln County, AR 6. Lake County, TN 7. Norton County, KS 8. Bon Homme County, SD 9. Trousdale County, TN 10. Buffalo County, SD
Counties w/highest cumul. #COVID19 *deaths* per capita: 1. Foard County, TX 2. Galax, VA 3. Jerauld County, SD 4. Emporia, VA 5. Hancock County, GA 6. Gove County, KS 7. Gregory County, SD 8. Iron County, WI 9. Dickey County, ND 10. McMullen County, TX
You go to a grocery store. You're vaccinated, so you don't wear a mask. How the hell is anyone else supposed to know whether you aren't wearing a mask because you're vaccinated, or you aren't wearing one because you're an asshole?
I'm not just talking about getting dirty looks from other customers, I mean in terms of actual *store policy*...how are they supposed to enforce it without an official "vaccine passport" etc?
This is good to hear, but it's going to make the "asshole who refuses to follow store policy" problem 100x worse. nytimes.com/2021/05/13/hea…
The first Zoom speaker is claiming that if they expand Medicaid, it will somehow cause people to WANT to earn less so that they'll qualify for it. Which might make some sense if the rest of the ACA didn't exist for those who earn more, or if they could afford ANY coverage NOW.
The second Zoom speaker claims that Wyoming has crappy oversight over Medicaid waste/fraud/abuse, therefore they shouldn't expand it. Here's an idea: Expand it *and* improve your oversight process? Just spitballing here.
📣 NEW: How much more would it cost the federal government if every holdout state expanded Medicaid via the #ACA? acasignups.net/21/05/10/how-m…
UPDATE: Whoops! I made a rather obvious error which impacted nearly all of the calculations; this has been corrected throughout the post.
Bottom line: As far as I can figure, it would cost roughly $341 billion over a decade to cover all 6.4 million eligible Americans, or ~$34.1 billion/year, while reducing the uninsured rate by an additional 4.0 million people.