Today I read an AP article "Could have saved the life of someone" lamenting the consequence of efforts to defund police during the time "unrest was roiling liberal Portland"

<sigh>

Maskachusetts has an additional 50,000 doses available today    With 1 million eligible for a dose, people are SHOCKED that there are long wait times to try to schedule an appointment

Good grief.  People are idiots

"We have learned from past crises that the risk is not doing too much.  The risk is not doing enough"  <=== a quote from the fake

Mythbusters creed:  If it's worth doing, it's worth over doing.

"Interesting" article in the Boston Herald today (24 Jan 2021) ... and, no, I don't have a url, I read newspapers printed on, ya know, paper.

It quotes Dr Todd Ellerin, director of infectious diseases at South Shore Health, "We know that cloth masks don't work as well as surgical masks.  I'm not saying jump to an N95 respirator..."

It also claims that cloth masks "might" not cut it against the new more contagious covid-19 strain.

And it reports that European countries are now requiring medical-grade masks used in public, rather than cloth masks.

hmmmmmm

People are yapping about doing vaccinations faster (including a Johns Hopkins authority).

Do these geniuses think various places in the supply chain are holding on to vaccine doses?

Note that the definition of "close contact" does not include consideration of whether or not masks are worn.  At least for the definitions I have seen.

I wonder if people analyzing contact tracing efforts are paying attention to the relative numbers of close contacts with masks that get infected vs close contacts without masks that get infected.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/php/contact-tracing/contact-tracing-plan/appendix.html

look at 1/6/21

https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine

hmmmmmm

3 Jan 2021 - Can Social Media Stop the Hate?

interesting question - given their role in spreading the hate...