Most recent Middlesex, MA covid tracking shows just over 2,000 copies per mL, suggesting we were seeing roughly 270 cases per 100,000 people per day (friendly reminder that the red flag for us was initially set to 8 cases per 100,000 people per day, then relaxed to 16, and then to 25 as we tried to avoid closing all schools all the time... so we're over 10 times the most relaxed threshold).
See that little uptick at the end of each graph? This didn't happen in 2022 but did in 2023. We understood the goal in 2022 (to some degree) but since ... is there some portion of the population who says "covid spread must be down so let's go nuts"? I suspect this is partially colleges reconvening their students on campuses where in 2022 they were still trying to get their students to maintain some precautions and they haven't been since... but I also don't think this is just college campuses.
I saw a post about how much people on the Right were/are so upset about what happened in response to Covid. On the one hand, yes, I agree. On the other, I don't care. Oh my god I don't care. We accepted the premise and this is the result. "There were lock downs" no, there weren't. "There were mask mandates" there are other clothing mandates that you don't care about. "The vaccine mandates" were limited to where you worked. "I don't like masks" you also don't like moving somewhere else to smoke. "the lock downs!" again, in the US, we didn't have any. You were free to go wherever. We closed down business and government buildings. We did not stop deliveries, we did not stop you from going outside, we did not stop you from hanging out with friends. You're a snowflake that doesn't understand what a lockdown is. "I can't breathe in a mask" oh stop now. The long and short of it is t...
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