Reminder of the scale of the "emergency" here in MA that requires the wholesale exclusion of the unvaccinated from society. Orange are COVID patients. Note that hospitals have chosen not to add back the 30% reduction in staffed ICU beds from last winter
2/ Kids represents 31% of the cases, but 38% of the tests--and only 23% of the population--34% vaxed.
Every other age group <70 is tested proportionally less than pop. Most are STILL over represented for cases--despite testing 2-3x less than kids.
3/ Over 70's are a different case. They are tested similarly to kids (likely in hospital), but have lower proportional cases. But this group is 99%+ vaccinated!
There are appx 7000 people TOTAL unvaxed (i.e. no doses) in this group. Yet still ~1400 cases every two weeks...
2/ These people, the establishment (R or D) have felt NOTHING over the past year. They don't care that your kids haven't been in school. They don't have them, or theirs were. Their net worth's have doubled. They like the masks--it makes them feel safe, secure, superior.
3/ I asked a man today if he had any concerns. He had none (he was a large R donor). Asked if it concerned him that MA kids had access to 1/4 the # of in-person schooling as FL or other red-state kids, he said "it's a shame for the low-income kids, but it was necessary."
2/ Now, let me tell you why it’s going to be incredible. 1) Fireworks 2) Mulled wine 3) 500 Members of #TeamReality+kids 4) Ice skating performance (!) 5) I'm doing it. You thought I was good at data analysis? Wait till you attend my parties
3/ Part of reclaiming normal is BEING normal. Think about it, your patriotic duty as a liberty-loving American is to party. We rebel from this BS by having fun. Gato was right. The Karenocracy is coming down. boriquagato.substack.com/p/why-covid-is…
2/ But it gets worse. Both of these groups STARTED w/= unemployment rates.
The EXCESS unemployment is literally 4x higher in the 10 most vaxed states, than the least vaxed. This translates to nearly 850,000 people who are unemployed in these states.
3/ My state, currently the MOST-VAXED state in the country for 1st dose, was the ONLY state whose unemployment rate INCREASED last month. wbjournal.com/article/mass-i….
2/ I always thought in poorer countries, they weren't really implementing these policies, which could only ever function in a terribly rich country (with robots).
I was wrong.
Every bad idea is being done there, but 10x worse than it was here. They STILL have lockdowns.
3/ Uganda is implementing a vax mandate w/<1% fully vaxed, and ~6% w/any shot.
The vax mandates (as everywhere) function solely as a method for surgically excluding people from society. In Uganda, that apparently is LITERALLY everyone but the top 1%.