Returning to the point.
Now that @CDCgov recommends that vaccinated and unvaccinated be treated the same, there is zero rationale for universities to maintain COVID vax mandates.
But so many have, despite all the letters, tweets, emails sent.
Unis are now violating CDC recs.
Why? Every State cannot have legislation with appropriate foresight as Arkansas or Sweden or the Balkans, Denmark or wherever else in the civilized world. A sad truth but a truth.
Whether one is pro-vax, anti-vax, or like me, totally neutral, there is no reason for fear...
... Arkansas is fine.
And if you attend or teach or work at a University, you will also be fine if your Uni aligns with the new CDC guidelines.
That's not to say COVID will disappear; you would simply appear to be at no higher risk than before.
It is a bad feeling to notice when a doctor acts most like an influencer, but when someone is influential, they shouldn't take cheap shots at other doctors like @DrLeanaWen
and @sdbaral, and more.
Especially from Caesar's Palace, even if I hope Kitty Glitter is a win for all.
After 29 months, my family finally all hugged one another again at my niece's first birthday, and no one was masked.
My area has not been easy. My mother had a breakdown about CDC changing recommendations (my parents are divorced, so not part of "family" above)...
...my mother lives 3,500 miles from me, alone. She is stubborn and not "elderly" at all -- she used to work and date -- but she hasn't left her house since March 2020, except 4x for vaccines.
She still sterilizes her groceries.
She used to say she was happy, but yesterday she..
...lashed at at me for hugging my family here, she saw a photo someone posted on FB, and she said the CDC was wrong, 400 people a day were dying, my sister was at a concert in NY, her 75 year old friends were having parties, but if she got C19, she would die and she was angry...
Just something I think about at times. As an undergraduate, I was detained by campus security for a solitary, spontaneous protest against the Iraq War. Students tried to form a human chain around me. Pepper spray and handcuffs.
My sin? Handing out fliers in a public space...
... just questioning the very prominent military recruiter presence on campus, right during Abu Ghraib coming to light. At this time, that was a "conduct issue" to question the US military actions in the ME. That was "a conduct violation" even for a 4.0 student.
But...
...of course I was released; I called my lawyer and my detention was unlawful (also caused me to miss class) a few months later, because apparently I was remembered, these recruiters shilling for Blackwater thought it was a brilliant idea to call out to me, as I walked to class..
The reason why people are angry at public health having different attitudes towards monkeypox vs. COVID is because, however inelegantly expressed, people are outraged still that public health invasively decided if they could leave the house, go to work, go to school...
...this absolutely includes gay men, of course. Everyone was denied the most fundamental and basic rights -- and frankly still are, not only children, personally I am just as angry about all people having been subject to legal restrictions on movement and association for years...
...so when some people say things right now about "why can't public health say no to orgies?" (or whatever), they are lashing out at public health and not gay men, although imperfectly expressed. The point being made is simply that no one should be subject to any restrictions...
Babs says she will not reimplement mask mandate for #LosAngeles b/c of a tiny fraction of a downward shift in 10/100,000 hospitalization, blaming the CDC's metrics. But given how stressful this has been for Californians, this is nothing to be happy about, as below.