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Originally posted by Krazeehorse:
Not to drift this thread but to the Florida members, you do not have a mask mandate (I think). What percentage voluntarily wears masks out and about? What about businesses requiring them? We like to vacation at Daytona but if I have to wear a mask everywhere I go I will just stay home. And according to the DB website they are required there.

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Originally posted by Pistolria:
If a business requires a mask, I wear them. Not that big a deal but for the most part if you are outside no one wears them. Occasionally you will see someone wearing one in a car by themselves, which I find hilarious!

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Originally posted by sjtill:
And here's the other good news (actually from yesterday), an op-ed piece by Dr. Marty Makary of Johns Hopkins, who has been on Tucker quite a bit.

Title of the piece is " We'll have herd immunity by April".

I've been following the covid tracking.com data on cases and hospitalizations in California and nationally, and the decline in both is amazing. New cases in CA have dropped from 40,000 to 10,000 in about a month; current hospitalizations from about 23,000 to 10,000. New deaths, a lagging indicator, is also trending downward, from almost 600 to 400 in about two weeks.

I agree with Makary's analysis: we are on our way out of this, don't let the doomsaying bureaucrats keep us locked down and afraid!

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Amid the dire Covid warnings, one crucial fact has been largely ignored: Cases are down 77% over the past six weeks. If a medication slashed cases by 77%, we’d call it a miracle pill. Why is the number of cases plummeting much faster than experts predicted?

In large part because natural immunity from prior infection is far more common than can be measured by testing. Testing has been capturing only from 10% to 25% of infections, depending on when during the pandemic someone got the virus. Applying a time-weighted case capture average of 1 in 6.5 to the cumulative 28 million confirmed cases would mean about 55% of Americans have natural immunity.

Now add people getting vaccinated. As of this week, 15% of Americans have received the vaccine, and the figure is rising fast. Former Food and Drug Commissioner Scott Gottlieb estimates 250 million doses will have been delivered to some 150 million people by the end of March.

There is reason to think the country is racing toward an extremely low level of infection. As more people have been infected, most of whom have mild or no symptoms, there are fewer Americans left to be infected. At the current trajectory, I expect Covid will be mostly gone by April, allowing Americans to resume normal life.

Antibody studies almost certainly underestimate natural immunity. Antibody testing doesn’t capture antigen-specific T-cells, which develop “memory” once they are activated by the virus. Survivors of the 1918 Spanish flu were found in 2008—90 years later—to have memory cells still able to produce neutralizing antibodies.

Researchers at Sweden’s Karolinska Institute found that the percentage of people mounting a T-cell response after mild or asymptomatic Covid-19 infection consistently exceeded the percentage with detectable antibodies. T-cell immunity was even present in people who were exposed to infected family members but never developed symptoms. A group of U.K. scientists in September pointed out that the medical community may be under-appreciating the prevalence of immunity from activated T-cells.

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Originally posted by nhtagmember:
When I see someone in a car wearing a mask I don’t need a bumper sticker to tell me how that person voted.

I see it all the time here in Tucson and I really have a hard time believing that so many people can be so stupid.

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Originally posted by Graniteguy:
Aren't all the schools re-opened?

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:
Wtf? Imagine that weird asshole walking in as you're about to get a shot.

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Originally posted by MRBTX:
Gov Abbott is reopening Texas next Wednesday.

https://www.dallasnews.com/new...vid-19-restrictions/

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Originally posted by arabiancowboy:

Not C19 related. He was a mascot used to encourage polio vaccination a few years back. We have family in Brazil is the only reason I know. But it is (was) a real mascot from Brazil.